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>Let's face it. Getting together and forming groups isn't going to get any of us anywhere. Our only chance is calling upon the gods, in a very real way. Blood? Magic? Rune, seidr, or otherwise? Short of this type of revival, we are all as good as fucking dead.
Ain't that the truth?
Honestly, you neopagans aren't going to get anywhere like this. You guys are insanely fragmented, and for every /pol/-tier heathen there's a heathen who's more cucked than any rainbowflag-waving Reform Jew.
You know the type, right? Cucks and collegegirls who go around yammering about stuff like "tHeRe ArE qUeER gOdS" and "rAinBOw hEaTHenRy". Happily telling everyone how progressive they are, and how *real* heathens are totally all about interracial pansexual polyamory.
You'd just love to shut them up, right? I would too, and I'm not even a heathen! And we should, really. But we can't, can we? Cause that's a hatecrime, and then they'll have us tarred, feathered, fired, slandered, blackballed and unpersoned.
So we're just gonna have to sit back and gnash our teeth about it in secret. All while the usual suspects turn Odin into a queer icon and appropriate everything else about old Norse culture for their cuckery.
And you bet that this has an impact. Because *these* people control the media and the academic scene. Everything that the (Hello, I just arrived from Cuckchan, please bully me)s hear about vikings and old Norse society? They hear it from the most cucked types imaginable. All of that is deliberate, and there's a *big* push to make that even worse. I'm not even kidding here; I go to medievalist conferences, and I'm watching this play out in realtime.
The part about turning Odin into a queer icon was no hyperbole, either. I googled 'Odin queer' just now and I got nearly 2 million hits. Lots of academic stuff too, and they're really trying to rub it in.
And all of this is shaping public perception. Tainting symbols is very effective, you know? Google Angrboda and the first thing you'll see is a black woman. Repeat that sort of thing often enough and it'll stick. Even in the minds of the unwilling.
...honestly, I'd actually be depressed about it.
But it's all bullshit, though. There are no gods, and there is no magic beyond tricks of the mind. The Æsir, the Vanir, gods in general - they were never anything more than an idea.
That's also one of the two reasons why the historical heathens lost. Kinda hard for the gods to help you when they don't exist, right?
The other reason why it lost is organization. Say what you want about Christianity, but it gets organization right. That's why it became a world religion - in spite of starting out as, you know, a weird little half-Jewish sect that mainly appealed to poor people and slaves.
Heathens like might still have stood a chance had you been properly united and organized. But you're not, and your rainbow heathen enemies are.