Culture as Programming
A Case Study of Frau Löwenherz, aka Leonie Plaar
Meet Leonie Plaar, who goes by the moniker Frau Löwenherz as well as Leonie Löwenherz: Far-left, lesbian, Antifa, she is a most grotesque figure who exemplifies many of our troubles. Quite regrettably, she has a TikTok account with over 500,000 followers, while other social media accounts, namely her German language TikTok and Instagram accounts, have just under 100,000 and just over 50,000 followers, respectively.[1] She has made various appearances on German television, some of which were made objects of derision and ridicule by a number of detractors. Most amusing of all, she stormed off twitter and migrated towards Bluesky due to Elon Musk’s policies allowing users to express themselves more freely, including those that offend her far-left orthodoxy.
A screenshot of her last tweet announcing her departure from Twitter, migrating to Bluesky. The German language along with her likeness are weaponized against that very essence.
Pictures from several years ago attest to her natural beauty which she has, to put it mildly, neglected. Facial contortions from a permanent state of outrage manifesting from the wokescold ideology seem to be making her, if not ugly, far less attractive. There is a certain, bitter irony in her moniker of Frau Löwenherz, a name that draws from her Germanic personage even as her message and very being advocate for the abolition of Germany and the German people. In this way, she and her handlers are using her Germanic phenotype and mannerisms to deconstruct or dismantle that Germanic essence. Given how pedestrian and unoriginal her takes are, a matter discussed at length below, one cannot help but conclude she has been choreographed and boosted by certain nefarious, powerful interests.
In this video from last year, this woman made a presentation in Cologne talking about her decision to cut off contact from her father. Her stated reasons, like most if not everything this woman has ever uttered, are cut whole cloth from the boilerplate of cliched thoughts of the far-left hive mind that pervade both America and Europe. What grievances compelled her to such a drastic decision? Her father supports Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) and is generally opposed to how the Bundesrepublik handled the Covid pandemic and vaccination requirements.[2] For these unforgivable sins, for such political heresy of the day, she destroyed her relationship with her father, as it is unclear what effect this has had with other members of her family. Based on what is divulged in this presentation, by all accounts he was and is a loving father (she describes herself as a Papakind or daddy’s favorite), and a man who, supporting the AfD, loves Germany and wants to protect it from national and racial suicide.
The video is distressing, but there are some silver linings. The YouTube thumbs down extension reveals a ratio of over four to one dislikes and likes, and that is with the disincentive to even bother given how youtube tries to hide such feedback. In addition, a number of German language comments left by Antifa sorts and other such lefty rabble indicate a number of comments denouncing this woman, the decisions she made, and what she stands for have been deleted.
A brief perusal of her TikTok accounts and other content reveals that she only utters tired cliches that could very well be taken for verbatim by millions of others so inclined, both when she is speaking in English and her native German, with some buzzwords including “cishet male,” “toxic relationships” and “all men” being a few that stick out after a very brief perusal of her main TikTok page. Another cliché from her German TikTok account is “Liebe wen Du willst” (love whom you want). While in college, as she was being indoctrinated in cultural Marxist clap trap, she wrote a poem called “Alter Weißer Mann” (“Old White Man),” proving that pulling all the registers from intersectioanlist feminism and other such wokery is a tried and true formula for poetry so bad it does not warrant discussion let alone translation here. Then there is this presentation on a Ted Talk offshoot— aside from speaking in unoriginal boilerplate, her far-left activism seems to be correlated to putting on some pounds. But just as this reveals that she and so many of her ilk are incapable of an original thought or idea, the ubiquity of these cliches, the maggots of the mind, further demonstrate how they have consumed so many tens of millions, across different nations and languages. It is such unvaried, uniform regurgitation of the very same language that gave rise to the NPC meme.
A screenshot of her Ted Talk. More thumbs down ratings than otherwise, and this despite the disincentive to even bother. One is reluctant to make comments on another’s appearance, but she has packed on some pounds. One can only infer that the dysfunction of her far-left nuttery is giving her the body of a middle-age woman before reaching 30.
Many such cliches are seen in this video. Use of the word “triggered” to describe how Plaar has rightly incurred the ire of her detractors, or “non-binary lesbian” friends as people she was protecting by destroying the relationship with her father. Denouncing the AfD for “at the very least taking an indirect part in deaths of people” sounds very reminiscent of lefty woke jargon about “stochastic terrorism” lodged against various right-of-center influencers. When discussing her decision to cut off her father, and ostensibly much of her actual family, she talked about how she has her own family of friends and supporters in the LGTBQ community. She has a “magnificent family,” (großartige Familie), a family of queer people her age, by now a tired cliché repeated so many thousands of times over. This by now is a familiar yarn, covered for example in Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier, which discusses at length the modus operandi of those indoctrinated in the transgender cult to cut off family as a matter of course (sometimes while still accepting payments for college tuition and living expenses). It is a growing phenomenon that is coming to characterize millennials and Generation Z. In most contemptible fashion, at the conclusion of this presentation Plaar encourages others in a similar situation as her to do the same, asserting that no one is obligated to maintain a relationship with people who “are a danger to you,” “take energy from you,” or that “you do not feel comfortable around,” assuring audience members there is a “family out there for you.”
Towards the end of the presentation, seen above, Plaar encourages audience members to cut contact from family members they disagree with. The image of Grumpy Cat is a bizarre touch to such a sinister message. In addition to how terribly dated “Grumpy Cat” is, another silver lining is the down vote to up vote ratio, exceeding 4-1.
That every utterance is so thoroughly unoriginal—verbatim the same slogans, phrases, and sentences simply translated into German— is proof that she is a product of cultural programming. As explicated in “Thrust Into It All; The Individual Defined by Culture and Circumstance,” we all are a product of cultural programming to a profound, even incalculable degree. A great irony with individuals like Frau Plaar is that she assuredly likens herself to be a very unique individual. Many of her videos denounce racism, neo-Nazis, and the like, from which it can be inferred that she has lapped up—with a voracious appetite and most ardent fervor—the servings of Kriegschuld offered to her on an unremittent basis since birth as a “good,” modern German.
As explained in “Thrust Into It All,” one could take an exact clone of Plaar, but place her in a different cultural milieu and period of time, and that clone—by virtue of being born in that different time and circumstance alone--would be a radically different individual than what we now behold. If she were not born in modern Germany with the decades of national self-flagellation, the indoctrination through both education and culture of Kriegschuld talking points, but in Germany in the 1920s or 30s, she would most likely have views that would make her father and other AfD supporters seem radical in a very different way, not because of any accusations of being “far-right,” but because of their classical liberalism and, one, would presume, some measure of aversion to Hitler and the more onerous policies of that regime. If she were born in the 1920s or 30s, she would have been compelled to join the Bund deutscher Mädel, but most likely would have joined of her own free volition, to the extent one really chooses to do anything at all. Rather than be indoctrinated with war guilt and later the tenets of intersectionalism and other such cultural Marxist jargon proffered at the University of Osnabrück and elsewhere, she would have a greater awareness as well as righteous resentment and indignation towards the number of hardships afflicted on the German people in the wake of the 1918 armistice and later the Versailles Diktat, including paying not a million but a billion marks for a loaf of bread during the number of inflation crises that Germany experienced, the nigh one million Germans who died during the naval blockade of 1918, among other hardships and indignities suffered by the German people on direct account of the do-goody Western democracies. Doubtless she would also have a more enlightened view on the legitimacy of Germany’s territorial claims on the Sudetenland and Danzig, as well as a more enthusiastic view of marching into the Rhineland Palatinate (Germany marching into her own backyard) and the Anschluss (Austrians overwhelmingly supported it). German newspapers in the 1920s and 30s covered atrocities and mass murder in Stalin’s Soviet Russia in a way that did not exist in the English-speaking world and in a way that is downplayed to this day in Germany, so her affinity for the historical predecessors to Antifa and the far left, namely the KPD would be most unlikely. It is almost certain she would have supported Germany’s war effort in the Second World War, particularly after the German armed forces avoided a protracted war by capitulating France in six weeks, and not without good reason, especially without the advantage of hindsight.
Images of BDM girls like this are illustrative. The programming instilled from that cultural milieu versus the one we see today is the only real difference between women like this and those like Frau Plaar. Culture matters, and matters more than anything. Culture is of course a projection of power.
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The role of cultural milieu as programming of each individual is not merely illustrated by considering what Leonie Plaar would be like 80 to 100 years ago, but is further demonstrated by the realization that, in many ways, the choices she makes and the utterances she makes are not an individual choice at all as properly understood, but are part of a greater rubric of sociological and cultural phenomena that shape and define the individual in any context, but most especially modern Germany as she stands on the precipice of nationaler und völkischer Abschaffung. The real terror of Leonie Plaar is that she is NOT just an individual, not an isolated incident, but is part of a greater hive mind that is leading Germany and all of Europe to ruin, to racial and national suicide. Having chosen to be lesbian[3], she is part and parcel of the antinatalism that has a death grip on Germany, Europe, and white populations across the world. Proof of this contention, that her cookie cutter far left leanings are not an individual trend but part of an insidious cultural and societal trend in Germany and to a lesser extent Europe, is pervasive and is demonstrated in any number of news stories about modern Germany. See the demonstrations against the AfD, as tepid and restrained as that party is, most recently in Essen, or that “good” Germans have a fleet of ships, as part of an organization called the Sea Eye, to interdict boats and rafts of Africans—not to send them back or. . . other, harsher measures to prevent them from reaching European shores, as ought to be done—but to rescue them and ferry them to European shores for settlement.
When compared with a certain, tragic generation of Germans nearly a century ago, Plaar and “good” Germans like her, as a product of a pernicious social programming, are in many ways an inversion of the two excellent Terminator movies worthy of discussion and acknowledgement.[4] Everyone knows the difference between the original terminator in the first movie, sent to kill Sarah Connor, and the second cyborg, once referred to as “Uncle Bob,” sent in Terminator 2: Judgment Day to protect John Connor: programming. Skynet of course programmed the first terminator to assassinate Sarah Connor to prevent John Connor from being born, and after that failed John Connor and the human resistance overtook a Skynet stronghold in 2029 and programmed a captured terminator, sending him back in time to protect him in 1991 from the T-1000 played by Robert Patrick. In human affairs, the cultural milieu that envelops the individual IS the programming, defining the individual in such profound ways that are only slightly less determinative than the programming of a Cyberdine Systems Model 800 cyborg.
Programming Status: Complete: A screenshot from the presentation, focusing on a blonde German woman absorbing the message. The process of indoctrination is captured at this very instant in time. As discussed below, in order to win, nationalists will have to stop the process of programming and indoctrinating young people.
Many would of course object to the analogy for comparing the generations of Germans who came of age during the Third Reich to the cyborg terminator sent to protect John Connor and the future of humanity. Simply stated, Germans of this period have been unfairly maligned, as the vilification of them is always made with the advantage of hindsight, and never accounts for the legitimate reasons everyday Germans followed Hitler without that advantage of hindsight[5], including the myriad injustices of the Versailles Diktat, the deprivations and hardships suffered by the German People at the end of World War I mentioned above, the legitimate threat of communist revolution, the shocking and extreme decadence and sexual degeneracy of the Weimar Republic, especially Weimar Berlin, not to mention legitimate territorial claims on Sudetenland, Danzig, and Austria. Ernst Nolte and others correctly distinguish between the German people at the time and the political leadership at the top that failed them in such utterly devastating, catastrophic fashion. In spite of such unfair vilification, Germans of this time period advocated for the family, advocated for natalist policies that would allow the German people to propagate beyond a couple of generations, and they fought for their country against the evils of liberal democracy, Soviet Bolshevism, and International Jewry. Despite the catastrophic moral and military failures of the top leadership, this generation did have a decency utterly absent in individuals like Plaar who seek the abolition of their own people. Contrary to conventional wisdom, and contrary to what deluded Germans like Plaar insist as she and those of her ilk march Germany to her very abolition, the hypothetical Plaar born in 20s and 30s—or really the generation of women from that period—is much closer to the benign, savior of humanity “Uncle Bob” variety of terminator cyborg than its predecessor sent to snuff out the future of humanity. And no matter how much Plaar and those like her would deny it, it is a nigh certainty she would have gladly fallen in line as a BDM girl as a clone born in the 20s or 30s. She has after all shown a strong propensity to follow whichever way the winds of power blow.
A still from the Victory Parade in Berlin after the capitulation of France in 1940, depicting what appears to be a BDM girl, perhaps 17 or 18, giving flowers to a German solider. Behold a different sort of German woman of very much the same phenotype. One might call this woman Fräulein Löwenherz. Such a woman did not fancy herself bisexual at 15 and later alternate between lesbian and lesbian bisexual, nor did she forsake her father or her male counterparts to bolster her lefty credentials on social media. Cultural milieu is the defining difference between her and so much of what we see today.
The Terminator analogy is of course somewhat simplistic in other ways, as few metaphors bear close scrutiny. The concept of Geworfenheit as formulated by Martin Heidegger is of course in tension with Entwurf¸ or projection, the way the individual interacts with the externalities that envelop him. Some of us are endowed with some small semblance of autonomy, even if free will is far more limited than the Anglo-American tradition so foolishly supposes. In many ways, free choice is but an extensive drop drown menu, in which the choices available to the individual are prepopulated by the externalities that envelop him, including time and circumstance one is born into and other externalities from cultural milieu to familial and religious upbringing.
There is another imperfection in this analogy, however, namely that many societies present a conflict between receding incumbent cultures and ascending subversive ones, with Germany being arguably a better example than any other in the Occident. To be sure, Germany, like almost all of Europe, is in serious trouble, beset on all sides by this sort of subversive cultural programming, the intake of junk American Unkultur, replete with English language advertising and English language pop songs that imperil the future of not just the German language but many European languages and other languages around the world. This however is in tension with the incumbent culture of Germany, one that has developed over centuries and that rejects the insidious views and lifestyles of persons like Plaar, or those who commit miscegenation or want to flood Germany and other European lands with third world hordes who have no right to set foot on the sacred continent. In this way, individuals are subject to two competing efforts to program, although the insidious, malignant cultural programming that infected Plaar does seem to be ascending.
The opposition between an incumbent, and at the moment receding culture and an ascending subversive new culture might lead some to question whether the constraints on individual autonomy are as severe as argued for. Although the analogy to cyborg programming may be a bit simplistic and overstated in some respects, those who insist on free will overlook things such as the abiding tendency of sorts like Plaar, especially women, to go with the dominant social order, the power of peer pressure, the appeal of authority wielded by whatever professors indoctrinated her with feminist and intersectional jargon at the University of Osnabrück, the irrational compulsion to rebel against one’s parents, among other externalities that most are not even conscious of.
In many ways, simplistic and erroneous notions about individual autonomy, whatever that is supposed to mean, combined with the greater philistinism of mainstream conservatism that holds matters of culture and the arts in open contempt, at least here in the States, have contributed greatly to many of our troubles that have allowed young women like Plaar to be so indoctrinated, to be so programmed. All of this might have been avoided if there were an established opposition to cultural Marxism that actually cared about culture, and was not merely feigned opposition by paid-to-lose shills who only to pretend to serve their constituencies. Germany, alas, is a special case, being a vanquished country, a nation that did not have legal sovereignty until after reunification, a country that abides by a constitution written at the direction of and with assistance from the victors that conquered her. Germany is a country in which leftist youth wear t-shirts reading “Germany Must Die So That I May Live,” it is a country in which an insidious philosophy called “anti-Germanism” compels self-hating Germans to brandish signs thanking Bomer Arthus Harris for firebombing Dresden to counter protest sensible Germans who protest the war crime perpetrated by the “do-goody” Allies.
Of course, these elements in the culture and higher education stem from the march through the institutions of power here in the States by cultural Marxism. Intersectionalism, the anti-white rhetoric, everything that comprises Plaar’s malignant programming of the mind was imported from the United States, much of which was imported from German Jews fleeing the Nazi regime in the 1930s.[6] Because these harmful “ideas,” to the extent one can call them ideas, most immediately originate from the United States, those beholden to more mainstream views or who are (somehow) still beholden to quaint and erroneous views about American exceptionalism make a grave error in thinking all of this is peculiar to the Germans or that somehow the Germans collectively deserve this or are responsible for this.
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It is unclear what the best short- and long-term solutions are for those Germans (and other European peoples) not infected by the insidious programming that has infected those like Frau Plaar. As always, no matter how daunting and seemingly intractable a problem may be, any solution requires a correct understanding of the nature of the problem. Germans, Europeans, and the European Diaspora have no hope of prevailing without the critical, essential understanding that Frau Plaar and those like her are a product of the cultural milieu that envelops them and envelops us all. To save heiliges Deutschland und Mutter Europa, the cultural programming must be changed by any means necessary and available, not unlike how the programming of the model 800 cyborg determines whether he is a friend or foe of humanity in the two Terminator films. For Germany in particular, changing the cultural programming, and doing so in time, will be difficult, but German nationalists do have an incumbent cultural foundation that has existed for centuries. That incumbent cultural foundation needs to be protected and touted with much greater vigor than has been seen in recent memory.
The fate of not just Germany but all of Europe may hinge on whether a critical mass of Germans can overcome decades of war guilt. The ridiculous outrage from Sylt, where chants of “Ausländer Raus, Deutschland den Deutschen, Ausländer Raus” to L’Amour Toujours” became a national scandal, including the “cancellation” of persons involved, calls for five year prison sentences, and banning the song from Octoberfest and other festivities. Conversely, different variations of the song shot up on the German various music charts, one sign of many showing there is still hope for Germany yet.
At some point, Germans and Europeans writ large need to understand that the United States is not their friend and find some way to expel not only the American armed forces from Germany and other European countries, but expel and expunge many horrid auspices of American Unkultur from their midst. This will require a more enlightened, authoritarian ethos, a dark enlightenment, that rejects American platitudes about individual autonomy and especially the absurd notion that what consenting adults do is no one else’s concern. If for example Germany were to ban or oust McDonald’s as ought and must be done, a critical mass of persons must come to understand that persons making the “choice” to patron these portents of Pax Americana affect Germans and Europeans collectively.[7] The same rationale—the same dark enlightenment--applies to embracing intolerance for a certain sort of German woman who desires to copulate with men of different races, holds “refugees welcome” signs at the train station to greet passenger trains full of migrants, and so on. Above all, Germany and other vassal states of the American empire must come to the realization that they are occupied nations and develop the political will demanding they cease to be so. These are just some of the steps necessary to end the process whereby young Germans and Europeans altogether are programmed by this insidious American creed. The failure to either discern this fundamental truth about culture as programming or to successfully implement measures to disrupt and end such programming will ensure that persons like Plaar and her handlers will prevail, even as her phenotype and lineage will be assured of extinction through the auspices of antinatalism and the Great Replacement should these elements continue to succeed.
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NOTES
[1] To dissuade readers from adding view counts, links to her English and German language TikTok accounts are provided in this footnote: , . General website is here. Archives: https://archive.is/fQNjm; https://archive.is/os20a; https://archive.is/5PCBj
[2] She makes a number of outlandish claims in denouncing both the AfD and her father. In addition to accusing the AfD from engaging in “Nazi rhetoric,” and associating the party with the Hitler salute, she further claims her father indulged conspiracy theories about Bill Gates wanting to put microchips in people through these experimental vaccines. In addition, she states the last utterance compelling her to break off contact with her father was when he “unironically compared the vaccine mandate to the Holocaust.” She even accuses AfD supporters of engaging in rhetoric expressing a desire to see “people like me dead,” a sentiment that I cannot condemn entirely but also highly doubt has any basis in fact, particularly as Alice Weidel is lesbian. Given the number of outlandish statements she has made that have no apparent basis in fact, one would be wise to consider her an unreliable narrator. Shortly before the Holocaust accusation, at approximately 15:25, she challenged her parents regarding the vaccine asking, what would convince you to take the opposite conclusion from your reticence to take the vaccine. Her father replied “nothing.” This is much more likely to have happened, and, of course, it is no reason to destroy a relationship with a loving father. Finally, this video likely references her last visit with her father, demonstrating her intentions were not in good faith. She went there looking for a fight.
[3] In the video presentation discussed at length in the second paragraph on, Plaar divulges that she discovered she was bi-sexual at 15 and determined she was lesbian at 17 and came out at some point in time thereafter, when precisely is unclear. However, in these two TikTok videos, she identifies as “lesbian and bi.” Additionally, about a year ago, I seem to recall discovering aa video evidencing she had a boyfriend in college among other materials. Regrettably I now am unable to locate these videos. Regardless, that she identifies alternately as lesbian or bisexual demonstrates her lesbianism is a choice and socially and culturally conditioned, as female sexuality is generally much more fluid than male sexuality.
[4] One is reluctant to make any reference to American popular culture, but there are outliers for most everything. Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day are great cinema with profound themes and great story-telling that distinguish them from so much dreck.
[5] While the German people of the time and today are undeserving of the unmitigated villainy that has unfairly maligned them, the regime—or more precisely its political leadership at the top—had a number of moral failings, not to mention a number of catastrophic strategic and tactical blunders that doomed Germany, despite the deutsche Wehrmacht being a most lethal instrument and one of the great paragons of military discipline in all history; even the greatest warriors cannot fight three peer powers on three fronts simultaneously and emerge victorious. As stated elsewhere, I am most ambivalent about the Nazi period, as I regard Hitler and those in his inner circle with a strong aversion, although this aversion diverges largely from conventional wisdom. I am deeply sympathetic to the reasons for which everyday Germans followed Hitler—without the advantage of hindsight—as I regard the Allies as bad or worse. I do condemn Hitler however, for in effect losing the war by involving Germany in a war with three peer powers simultaneously, not to mention the barbarism he perpetrated against Slavic Europeans, the Russians in particular although the German armed forces saw much barbarism perpetrated by the Russians as well from the very onset of Operation Barbarossa. Hitler also brutalized his own people, and showed callous disregard for the lives of his own men in “stand or die” orders. While in Allied captivity, Field Marshall Ritter von Leeb once stated “The excesses of National Socialism were in the first and final analysis due to the warped personality of the Führer,” to which Heinz Guderian responded, “the fundamental principles were fine.” This is an entirely reasonable position on the matter.
[6] See Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald, for starters.
[7] See specifically the subsection captioned “Ubiquity of Fast Food.”
This essay was published in two parts on Counter Currents. It is presented here unabridged, including photos and images not included by the editor at Counter Currents.