The Five Stages

Of Being Red Pilled

PEOPLE NEW TO the Movement often express frustration when they are unsuccessful in converting ordinary Whites (“normies”) to our Cause. They show them a website or an article or a leaflet, and expect that this single exposure to our viewpoint will undo a lifetime of brainwashing and propaganda which has been ingrained in their minds.

This sad fact is that normies will not accept the truth until they are psychologically ready to accept it. Instances of us “converting,” say, an ordinary, everyday White Republican to National Socialism are so rare as to be statistically non-existent. Rather people convert themselves when they are psychologically ready. And even then, they go through a mental process before they become truly hardcore National Socialists.

Converting American Whites to an NS or White Nationalist viewpoint is often called “red pilling.” The online dictionary Oxford Languages gives this definition:

red pill

verb

past tense: red-pilled

cause (someone) to have their perspective dramatically transformed, especially by introducing them to a new and typically disturbing understanding of the true nature of a particular situation.

AI describes the opposite of the red pill as the blue pill:

the blue pill represents remaining in blissful ignorance within a comforting illusion. 

Back in the 1960’s, Swiss psychologist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross identified five stages of grief that many people go through when they lose a loved one or experience some other grievous emotional blow. These stages are:

(1)  Denial

(2)  Anger

(3)  Bargaining

(4)  Depression

                   (5)  Acceptance

Not to put too fine a point on it, but White people who are “red pilled” more or less go through this same process described by Kübler-Ross.

1. Denial – This is the most frustrating stage to which I alluded earlier. You show this or that racial comrade statistics revealing the IQ disparity between Blacks and Whites, or information revealing the Jewish role in Marxism, or the moral double standard by which Israel is judged in the mainstream media. But instead of experiencing an Earth-shattering epiphany, they deny the validity of your information or – worse – they simply shrug their shoulders and say, “So what?” They are not ready to swallow the red pill.

But that does not mean that you should give up on them. Continue to explain the National Socialist viewpoint to them when the opportunity arises. Do not browbeat them or become insistent. Instead, calmly and rationally expose them to National Socialism. Even if they do not respond to our message positively at that moment, they will store the information you give them in their brain. And when they are psychologically ready to do so, they will convert themselves.

Now, let us be realistic: not everyone is going to come on board. It will always be only small minority of Whites who do so. But keep this in mind: we are not looking to recruit those who are ordinary into the Movement, but rather those who are extraordinary. And this corresponds only to a small fraction of mankind,

2. Anger – When a White person is ready to accept the hard fact that their Race is being murdered, and that all of the ills visited upon American Whites are deliberate, and not accidental, they often react with anger. Some, especially males in their late teens or early 20s, may wish to lash out violently against the anti-Whites. They may go through a so-called “accelerationist” phase, in which they think that immediate illegal violence is both necessary and justified.

It is important to keep these new recruits reined in, and to dissuade them from striking out in a foolish and ineffective manner. Let them know that our enemies are so powerful and numerous that random attacks at low-level targets are not going to unseat them. Tell them that if they pursue such a path, they will inevitably end up in prison or the hospital – or the morgue. Instead, channel their anger into productive National Socialist activities designed to win the hearts and minds of our Folk to the National Socialist Cause.

3. Bargaining: At some point, a new recruit may get it into his or her mind that we can reason with our enemies and strike a deal with them. An example: Israel is an ethnostate. Doesn’t that mean that the Jews accept the notion of racial nationalism in theory? Might they not then agree that other ethnicities or races likewise have a right to such a state as their own? But this is just naïve foolishness: our enemies do not wish to live in peace with the Aryan peoples, rather, they want to first conquer us, and later exterminate us.

So, while bargaining with our racial enemies might seem reasonable and appealing at first glance, the harsh truth is that we are engaged in a struggle of “to be or not to be.” Wrote Adolf Hitler: “There is no making deals with the Jews – it is only the hard ‘either – or’.”

4. Depression – When a new recruit finally comes to realize that our enemies are (1) Immensely powerful, and, in effect, control of the government, the media, the banks and the military; and that (2) Lashing out at them violently is completely ineffective; and that (3) The anti-Whites cannot be reasoned or bargained with, a deep depression may set in. The newbie may feel that our Cause is indeed just and righteous – but that is it also hopeless. They become “Black Pilled” (to use the current term) and withdraw from the Movement. They become bitter and depressed.

This is something that they have to work through on their own. Just as their initial conversion is a decision that they have to come to internally, they will emerge from the black pill depression when they are psychologically ready to do so. To be honest, some comrades become so despondent that they leave the Cause forever. More’s the pity, for we really need their aid and support, But those who do resolve this inner crisis successfully move on the final and most productive stage of the red pill process: acceptance.

5. Acceptance – This is the ultimate, most-mature, and most-realistic psychological level that someone joining the Movement can achieve. Many will not make it this far – but  those who do are worth their weight in gold to our Cause. They realize that we are involved in a struggle that will not be over in our lifetimes but will instead drag on for many generations. During the course of this time there will be both defeats and victories. Our struggle will further require both large and small sacrifices on the part of  National Socialist comrades – sometimes bitter and painful sacrifices. And yet, a comrade who accepts this realization achieves an inner freedom that allows them to act without emotion and attachment over long stretches of time. It renders them psychologically invulnerable to the day-to-day ups and downs of the struggle and its inevitable vicissitudes.

So, yes, being fully and effectively red pilled requires more than merely realizing that all men are not created equal, more than understanding that the United States fought on the wrong side in the Second World War, and more than identifying the Jews as our implacable racial enemy. Being red pilled in the most meaningful and complete sense means living one’s entire life in the service of the Cause of Adolf Hitler and George Lincoln Rockwell.  It means continuing to fight on even in the face of demoralization and personal loss. It calls you to a higher Aryan humanity, to become a living and breathing member of a Master Folk.

– Martin Kerr

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For an in-depth discussion of “acceptance” as we use the term here, see Matt Koehl’s essay, Selfless Action, here: theneworder.org/Selfless Action2.html

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