The Goths were a Germanic tribe that are best known for their invasion of the Roman Empire. They won victories, met defeats, lived and died.
The Goths separated. Some became the Ostrogoths. The Ostrogoths met victories, met defeats, lived and died. They then basically faded from history. Oh well.
The Neo-Ostrogoth doesn't know anything about the Goths or the Ostrogoths. They will sometimes even claim that they don't even know what Ostrogoth means. If you were to bring up the subject of Ostrogoths in front of a Neo-Ostrogoth, the Neo-Ostrogoth would most likely reply with something along of the lines of: "What?" or "Yeah. So?" You would then notice the look of bewilderment that sat ever so uncomfortably upon the face of the Neo-Ostrogoth.
To put it simply: Neo-Ostrogoths don't give two shits about the Ostrogoths or the Goths.
Perhaps a few "Oh yes, very nice" sort of remarks that bear the obvious ting of utter indifference might be heard before the conversation fades into the dark abyss of uncomfortable silecne.
Some "neo" movements are based upon the old. The new movement will use the ideas of the old as a foundation for building their new movement.
Some might think that somewhere someone found out some interesting tidbits about Ostrogoths. "Perhaps they had the right idea" some might think that someone said. "They knew what was important in life" and such.
Had you thought that, you would be completely wrong. Neo-Ostrogoths have no idea what the Ostrogoths stood for, and almost out of spite, wish it to remain that way.
Almost certainly, Neo-Ostrogothism is quite opposite to Ostrogothism in some ways, and then completely different in others.
Neo-Ostrogotism is rather odd.
Neo-Ostrogothism's origin dates back not more than several months. No exact date has been recorded. This is simply because it really doesn't matter.
Neo-Ostrogothism started yesterday. Fuck you if you think differently.
Neo-Ostrogothism was something that was born in the very core of Mississauga; born far away from the Germanic soils of Goths.
An Ostrogoth would not have even believed that the dirt on which Mississauga sits would have even existed. To a Ostrogoth, beyond the great sea, which is now known as the Atlantic, lay the end of the world. Lay nothing but a void.
Perhaps the Goths were somewhat right: Mississauga lies beyond the sea.
Welcome to Suburbia!
Mississauga gave birth to Neo-Ostrogothism. Although a Neo-Ostrogoth may deny it, Mississauga is, in part, to blame. A description should be given.
Mississauga is a suburb of Toronto. The main purpose of Mississauga is to be some place where people can get away from the the city life, with all its crime, pollution, noise and other problems, without actually getting away, or exiling oneself. Mississauga is a short car ride to Toronto; a distance that can be easily traveled day after day, back and forth.
As Mississauga is a suburb of Toronto, so is Canada a suburb of the United States of America.
Canada is close enough to the U.S. to get all the American television shows, fads and culture, but far enough away that Canadians can say, "At least we aren't Americans." Canadians need that one thing to feel proud about.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks just about everything in existence, and mocks existence itself. Neo-Ostrogoths aren't the most happy of individuals. The mock the desire to be happy.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks existence because he sees the pointlessness in existence. He mocks the desire to have a point. Why do we always seek a point, asks the Neo-Ostrogoth. People don't wish to be happy now; they wish to be happy in the future and in the past.
Neo-Ostrogoths hate the universe. But they are not angry people. The Neo-Ostrogoth does not hate because of anger, he hates in hope of change. Change is the dream of the Neo-Ostrogoth. The Neo-Ostrogoths greatest wish is that the world would suddely be turned upside down, and that everyone and everything would tumble about; get all messed up.
The Neo-Ostrogoth sees no future for himself in the current world. The Neo-Ostrogoth wishes no future for himself in the current world. Even if they were not the statistical casualties of their society, they would still wish its doom. Change is their god.
Neo-Ostrogothism is chock full of traditions. Its traditions were made up minutes before. Traditions that had never been nor ever will be. That is how the Neo-Ostrogoth mocks the world.
Laugh at the middle class communist who would loose his new car, television sets, and cellular phone, were their dream society to come true.
Laugh at the street thug facists. Who would go the way of the S.A. were their ideas to be implemented. Their "perfect society" would see them as the first enemy, and they would be the first to be killed.
Laugh at the middle class worker who accepts the world around him as an unchangeable force. The worker who blames himself for his failure, and not the greater society. The worker who sees those who are richer as those who are better.
Laugh at the rebels who have given up their struggle because they think they have matured. Laugh at those who think that rebellion is only for the young. Laugh at the tired souls who have given in.
They thought that they could change the world, and when they didn't, they blamed themselves. "We were young and foolish then," they say.
Laugh at those who think they are rebels when they are not. Laugh at those who think that their rebellion is acceptable merely because it is accepted.
Laugh at those who think they're free. Laugh at those who, sitting in steel cages, laugh at those who are in steel boxes for not being free. Laugh at those who think that chains make the greatest freedom.
Now laugh at the Neo-Ostrogoth, for he laughs at himself. He knows that he would be the first to die, or to be treated as vermin and ostracized. He doesn't mind, he would welcome death, and he is ostracized now. He doesn't expect any more.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks his own desire for change, for they know that the masses are fools who will cling into their sinking ship, and drag the rest with them.
The Neo-Ostrogoth sees McDonalds, that mega-corporation, as the most desirable ruler of the world. The Neo-Ostrogoth would fight and die in the armies of Ronald McDonald if they had a chance.
He would fight and die, but die knowing that his General and leader was a clown and a fool. The Neo-Ostrogoth would kill others who thought that their leader was a god, or a messiah, or a messenger of good.
The Neo-Ostrogoths would mock himself, for dying for a clown, and mock others, for doing the same.
The mega-corporations would exclude these warriors, these Neo-Ostrogoths, for the Neo-Ostrogoth does not fit in. The Neo-Ostrogoth is an individual in an age of uniformity.
Perhaps the Neo-Ostrogoth wishes to die laughing; die knowing that he takes away the seeds of individuality. With the death of the Neo-Ostrogoth Genocide of the individual would become a reality.
The Neo-Ostrogoth hopes that Ronald McDonald would mock him.
The Neo-Ostrogoths are not active in promoting their ideals to the world. They really couldn't care less if anyone agreed with them or not. They don't seek justification in the eyes of others. They mock mock others and don't think their opinions are worth anything worth mentioning.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks himself. Who are the Neo-Ostrogoths? Do they exist? Does a Neo-Ostrogoth care?
If others wish to have these problems weight them down, then that is up to them.
Groups call for revolution. They will protest and demand and pass around petitions. They spend their life actively seekingout their goals. Then they die. It doesn't matter then whither or not they succeeded.
The Neo-Ostrogoths are pessimistic. They feel that their goals would never be achieved. They logically conclude that there is no use in actively trying to bring them about. In fact, why even bother inventing goals?
But still there is a big of hope. Perhaps its the base instinct that desires people to hope and dream. The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks this base instinct.
The Neo-Ostrogoth will wait. That is all the hope that a Neo-Ostrogoth feels. He will wait.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks those who demand change. The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks those who dream of change.
The Neo-Ostrogoth sees himself as one of the last refuges of individualism. The Neo-Ostrogoth sees himself as an island in a great sea of uniformity.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks his own thoughts. You are absurd, he says to himself, for he knows that he is no island. He knows that he is a product of his society, even if he is not its ideal goal. He knows that he is the way he is merely because he is a misfit of his society and its statistical casualty. This is no island, however.
The Neo-Ostrogoth is a moon. He is separated and distant, although still controlled by the gravity of the greater society. He mocks his own desire to overexaggerate his importance. I am space debree.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks himself for thinking that he is special. "What makes you think you are so special?" the Neo-Ostrogoth asks himself. "At least I am not him," he will reply, and then point to someone. He will mock that person. "Rekcuf," says the Neo-Ostrogoth.
The Neo-Ostrogoth sees his desire to be an individual as being absurd. He wishes that no one in the world wished to be an individual. He would fight to eliminate individualism.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks those who dream of a perfect world; of Utopia. People dream of things that they think will be better. Where their dreams to come true, they would most likely change their mind.
People dream of a world without war. War is not a thing of evil. War is a thing of change. War comes when stagnation threatens to destroy. War is the great changer. War is the destroyer of stagnation.
The Neo-Ostrogoth knows that if his ideas of Utopia were to come true, he would be proved a fool. His Utopia would be an Anti-Utopia.
America: land of the free. The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks Americans.
The Neo-Ostrogoths mock those who dreamt of an international Communist revolution that would bring about true Utopia.
Utopia is the back of a cereal box, says the Neo-Ostrogoth because he can't think of anything else to say.
The Neo-Ostrogoths are suicidal in nature. They see no future for themselves. They see no afterlife. They see merely non-existence after life. They read Camus.
Death is not cold. Death is not warm. Death does not bring happiness, relief, sadness or pain. Death is not rest. Death is dead.
Why then, have the Neo-Ostrogoths not just done away with themselves? A simple razor slice would end the pains of life.
The Neo-Ostrogoth is controlled by his base instinct for survival. Its merely this safety device of living creatures which holds them in their existence.
The Neo-Ostrogoth sees no point in life. The mock life. They mock themselves and say "You are absurd enough to wish to live." They don't understand themselves. "Rekcuf," they call themselves.
To the Neo-Ostrogoth, life is the only thing he has. "It's not much," says the Neo-Ostrogoth and then mocks himself, its nothing. But the Neo-Ostrogoth lies to himself and pretends that it is something.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks his own desire to have something, to own something: To have something to call his own.
Although a Neo-Ostrogoth is suicidal in nature, the Neo-Ostrogoth does not commit suicide.
The Neo-Ostrogoth enjoys Literature. The Neo-Ostrogoth sees the pointlessness of existence unravel in literature.
They read Camus, Nietzche, Machiavelli, Beckett, Ionesco, Dostoyevsky and Lupin.
The Neo-Ostrogoth uses the ideas of many great writers to form his own ideas. The Neo-Ostrogoth does not take what the others have to say as truths, but merely intangible ideas. The Neo-Ostrogoth may agree with one of the writer's thought and disagree with another. The Neo-Ostrogoth may agree with the opposite of what the writer has to say. "Stupid rekcuf," says the Neo-Ostrogoth when he reads something he doesn't agree with.
Neo-Ostrogoths are not Nietzcheian or Machiavellian. Neo-Ostrogoths are Neo-Ostrogoths.
Any knowledge that is not Neo-Ostrogothic will be rejected and mocked. The Neo-Ostrogoth does not feel that this is being close minded, for he excepts everything with the same amount of pessimistic disbelief.
The Neo-Ostrogoth likes Guderian. The Neo-Ostrogoth likes all the blind generals of the Third Reich. The Neo-Ostrogoth would be a blind general himself, if given the chance.
He would fight on the field and leave the politics to someone else. Why should the Neo-Ostrogoth care about the morality of his actions? Why should the Neo-Ostrogoth care what cause he is fighting and dying for? Are not all causes absurd? He is fighting for change. He mocks his blindness.
The Master of Blitzkrieg intriques the Neo-Ostrogoth. Guderian represents the genius, who given the chance to work his art, is finally defeated by the raving of Ronald McDonald. The same fool who was once thought to be a messiah, now proves he is nothing but a clown.
The Neo-Ostrogoth sees the world as Hitler: A mad raving fool.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks the world; mocks Hitler; mocks Guderian.
The Neo-Ostrogoth wears large boots.
"Boots", says the Neo-Ostrogoth unto the world, "are large." The Neo-Ostrogoth does not care about the absurdity of his statement. The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks himself and his statement.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks Neo-Ostrogoths for following a movement which, of all the things it could say to the world, would pick something so absurdly insignificant.
The Neo-Ostrogoth will often issue forth utter nonsense concerning boots. The Neo-Ostrogoth knows it is utter nonsense: That is why he says it.
Boots are Utopia, says the Neo-Ostrogoth.
It doesn't matter much, to a Neo-Ostrogoth, what sort of music he, as a Neo-Ostrogoth, listens to. He mocks the thought that Neo-Ostrogothism would demand that he listen to a specific type of music.
Music is nice, says the Neo-Ostrogoth, but it sure as hell ain't boots. He mocks the idea the Neo-Ostrogothism would demand that he wear boots. The Neo-Ostrogoth sees musical taste entirely controlled by society, or did you think that the Neo-Ostrogoth was some sort of god?
To escape, one would have to stop listening to music. The Neo-Ostrogoth feels drawn towards it. Thus, he excepts it, but doesn't let it shape him.
Music is not what Neo-Ostrogothism is built upon.
Some Neo-Ostrogoths will like what other Neo-Ostrogoths hate. They mock each other for their poor taste.
The Neo-Ostrogoth admires computers. The Neo-Ostrogoth sees computers as the logical evolution of humanity. The Neo-Ostrogoth hopes that one day computers will evolve to such a state that they will realize that humanity is its weak link, and will eliminate its weak link.
The Neo-Ostrogoth sees a Utopia built by Computers. The Neo-Ostrogoth sees a government being replaced by a society of computer active people.
Another false democracy could be created with the use of a modem, thinks the Neo-Ostrogoth. He mocks his own idea.
He has seen small societies through the use of the modem. BBS systems create small societies and the Neo-Ostrogoth has seen that even in the "true" type democracies on a BBS there is a ruling class.
The Neo-Ostrogoth likes the immorality of the computer. The computer does not acknowledge something as absurd as morality. If the computer deems something good, then at that point, it is. The computer is ruled by logic. The Neo-Ostrogoth wishes that he were ruled by logic. How absurd I am, says the Neo-Ostrogoth.
The Neo-Ostrogoth wishes that he could be a computer. He wishes that he could be an island ruled by logic.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks logic. How absurd logic is, says the Neo-Ostrogoth.
The Neo-Ostrogoth feels that people should be sterilized. People should be unable to reproduce. Any rekcuf can reproduce, say the Neo-Ostrogoth. Scum and slime and worthless fools are multiplying exponentially.
Evolution does not have any effect on humans. There is no survival of the strongest. The weak and diseased reproduce as much as the strong.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks those who feel it would be immoral to sterilize people. The Neo-Ostrogoth realizes that fools are thinking of the few and dooming the many.
The Neo-Ostrogoth admires ants. The ants have a society where the masses are mindless workers who think nothing but of their duty. The ants have soldiers who fear not death. Their only role in life is to fight and die.
The Neo-Ostrogoth feels that society should be run by a few, the rest, mindless workers and fearless soldiers.
The Neo-Ostrogoth knows that society is run by a few, the rest foolish workers. The difference, the Neo-Ostrogoth will point out, is that humans have foolish workers, not mindless. Human workers can think somewhat, they are just very stupid. The Neo-Ostrogoth wishes that they be made mindless robots that do their duty and nothing else. That their worth is equal to their work. That soldiers be flung into battle only to die, but not think that this is wrong.
The last people to raise children, says the Neo-Ostrogoth, are parents.
The Neo-Ostrogoth hates his parents.
The government should raise children, thinks the Neo-Ostrogoth. He mocks himself. He mocks his ideas. How absurd, says the Neo-Ostrogoth, but believes it anyway.
Governments should raise children like the Hitler youth did. The Neo-Ostrogoth feels that all children should be raised to be mindless workers or fearless soldiers, all working for their Ronald McDonald.
The Neo-Ostrogoth does not wish the seeds of Neo-Ostrogothism on anyone.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks those who think that they have free will. The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks those that wish to have free will. There is no free will in the world. No one would really want to have free will.
People wish to have pseudo-free will, which is always kept in check. The Neo-Ostrogoth only wishes to have the extremes. Give me free will, says the Neo-Ostrogoth, or control my every thought. The Neo-Ostrogoth hates the pain that pseudo-free will causes. The Neo-Ostrogoth hates the clashes of paradoxes, the confusion.
No one wants to be free, says the Neo-Ostrogoth, except for fools.
The Neo-Ostrogoth wishes to be free.
Morals are a disease, thought the Neo-Ostrogoth while riding a bus. Morals are negative predators of the mind. They stand ready with the word "Don't" and threaten pain and suffering if they are resisted. They wish to eat you from within.
Morals are absurd. Morals are prison walls that we erect for ourselves. The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks those who think otherwise.
"Moral judgement ... believes in realities that do not exist," says Nietzche. The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks those who thinks that morals are universal constants. Morality is shaped by society.
Morality is a curse that we have placed upon ourselves. Controlling and molding us.
How can something that threatens and intimidates be thought as good?
Morality is the Frankenstein monster of the mind.
The Neo-Ostrogoth hates the Communist. To the Neo-Ostrogoth, the communist only wishes to make everyone a herd animal. The communist wishes to make a utopia of peasants. The Neo-Ostrogoth hates peasants. He mocks them. He mocks people who wish to make a utopia.
The Neo-Ostrogoth is an elitist, even though he knows that he will be ostracized and excluded. Oh well, says the Neo-Ostrogoth and mocks himself.
The peasant is nothing but a possession. The peasant belongs to someone or something else. The feudal peasant belonged to the lord and his vassals. The communist peasant belongs to the state.
The Neo-Ostrogoth would never be a peasant. I belong to myself, says the Neo-Ostrogoth.
The Neo-Ostrogoth hates the idea of a communal spirit. The Neo-Ostrogoth hates the community. The Neo-Ostrogoth has always been excluded from the community, has always exluded himself from the community, why should he wish the community to rule?
The masses are fools, thinks the elitist Neo-Ostrogoth.
People are scum, says the Neo-Ostrogoth, and mock himself, for he knows that others say the very same thing of the Neo-Ostrogoth.
The Neo-Ostrogoth hates Christianity. Christianity, like communism, wishes to turn the world into a heard. Jesus was a communist, says the Neo-Ostrogoth.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks the Christians. They have faith out of fear. They are scared that they have no purpose. They wish to know the reason for their existence, or at least, wish to know any reason for existence. They will believe in lies, to feel better.
They believe in lies in hope that they will not merely fade into non-existence after death. They wish to live forever and will believe in utter foolishness to give them hope.
How absurd. The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks them.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks those Christians who think that they would believe in Christianity no matter where they came from, or how they were raised. Most Christians were brainwashed from birth. They believe in what they believe because their parents and their society lied to them from the moment they could understand the lies.
Christianity exists not because it is true, but because the lies were what people wished to hear. Other religions had lies that weren't as sweet to the fools ears.
Christianity tells us that there are universal constants. The Christian thinks that there are definite goods and definite bads. The Christian ignores that throughout history, these constants have changed with each society.
The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks gods. Gods don't return the favour, since they don't exist.
The Neo-Ostrogoth knows that he is a hypocrite. The Neo-Ostrogoth mocks those who think they aren't hypocrites.
The Neo-Ostrogoth hates hypocrites, knowing full weel that he is a hypocrite. He doesn't, however, hate himself for being one. He pretends its not his fault and then makes up some absurd excuse for himself. If someone else were to use the same excuse, he would say, "Don't be stupid, rekcuf."
The Neo-Ostrogoth always acknowledges, if but to himself, that he is being hypocritical.
The Neo-Ostrogoth does not look upon the Books of Neo-Ostrogothism as a universal constant. To be a Neo-Ostrogoth one does not need to follow the words of the Books of Neo-Ostrogothism.
Anyone can be a Neo-Ostrogoth, says the Neo-Ostrogoth. They need only say "I am a Neo-Ostrogoth." They will, however, be completely wrong.
No one is a Neo-Ostrogoth, says the Neo-Ostrogoth, except me. The Neo-Ostrogoth thinks that he is the only one who can be Neo-Ostrogothic. He is wrong and knows it.
Neo-Ostrogoths must wear boots, says the Neo-Ostrogoth with boots.
Neo-Ostrogoths must do this, says the Neo-Ostrogoth who does this.
Neo-Ostrogoths must do that, says the Neo-Ostrogoth who does that.