What follows is the transcription of Varg Vikernes’
sentiments in a 2014 video available on YouTube, here and entitled A Simpler Life. This simple yet powerful
speech seemed so important to me that I felt I had to share it with anyone who
cares. Although a few inaccuracies might have escaped my attention, here
it is.
“Today, we live in ruthless
dictatorships, sometimes posing as so-called democracies and to strengthen
their grip on power, those who rule plan to destroy our societies by all means.
Yes, no less. They need to destroy our societies in order to have the excuse
they need to implement martial law and to get rid of all opposition
permanently. They want Muslims to clash with Christians. They want communists
to clash with nationalists. They want traditional men and women to clash with
homosexuals and feminists. They want all groups in society to go against each
other, head-on, violently, brutally, and with as much bloodshed and chaos as
possible. They want the entire world to look like Syria does today. A Syria
they have destroyed with their mercenaries. They want a civil war in every
country on this planet. Ladies and Gentlemen, Syria is a foretaste of what is
to come, of what they have in store for us, for us all. They control the
mainstream media and the educational system and use them to fill our heads with
lies. They control the banks and use them to enslave us. They own the consumer
industry and use it to bribe us. They control the pharmaceutical industry and
use it to poison us. They control Hollywood and use it to brainwash us. They
control our politicians and governments and use them to destroy our cultures
and our societies. They control the so-called “Muslim terrorists” and use them
to make us wrongly believe that Islam is such a huge threat to us all. They
control the food industry and use it to poison us. They control the USA and use
her as their henchman. They control the EU, they control China, they control
Russia. They think they control everything, but they don’t. “He who governs his
home, governs his life.” All we need to do to strip them of their power is to
ignore their media, to home-school our children, to stop using their banks, to
stop consuming like we do today. To use medicine as intended, to stop seeing
films and series made in Hollywood, to not vote for their politicians, to tell
the Muslims out there that we know that they are not the terrorists, here, and
to let them know that we have a common enemy. To grow our own food, to dig our
own wells, and perhaps most importantly, to lower our living standards. Instead
of trying to have enough money to buy our own freedom, we should instead,
understand that we can only live freely without much money.
We are only free if we lower
our living standards and we should anyhow. The way we live here in the west is
neither healthy nor sustainable. Return to a simpler life and their power will
crumble and they will fall, again, like they have done so many times in the
past. Return to a simpler life and you will see that behind the expensive cars
and fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick
layers of make-up, life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep
well of wisdom that we can all drink from and grow wiser, healthier, and
happier.”
