‘We’re romantic
nationalists . . .’
For
the South to advance at all, she must avoid repeating the mistakes of
Europe. Pure nationalism is one of them,
which led to constant wars in the 19th and 20th
centuries. Individualism among a people
is bad; individualism among nations, which is what nationalism is, is also
bad. The South, and Western Europe, need
to root themselves in something that allows both unity and diversity, not one
or the other. They will find this in the
Orthodox Roman Empire, in which one will find many nations and ethnic groups
mostly running their own affairs and living together in general harmony but
under the final authority of the Orthodox Roman Emperor, who helps maintain
that harmony as the father figure over them.
Western
Europe was at her best when she was a part of this Empire, which began with the
ascent of St Constantine to the imperial throne and was centered first in Old
Rome, then in New Rome/Constantinople, and ended (for now) in Russia in
1917. Within this Empire, Western Europe
both received and gave the holy light of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ: receiving from places like
Palestine, Asia Minor, and northern Africa, and giving, in the cases of the
Irish and English missionaries, to the heathen peoples from France and
Switzerland to Scandinavia.
She
is at her worst when she cuts herself from this Empire, as she has done since the
Great Schism of 1054, in her pride considering herself the all-important center
of the world; and not only sundering herself from it but actively fighting
against it in the cases of Charlemagne, the Crusade to sack Constantinople
(1204), and various wars against Moscow, the Third Rome.
Romantic
nationalism is one of many substitutes for the loss of the Orthodox Faith and
Empire after Western Europe was torn away from the Orthodox Church in
1054. Returning to an earlier error,
however attractive it may look to us today in our rather dire circumstances,
will not save us from trouble down the road.
‘First, we have to
understand who we are. We are alienated, disaffected, disillusioned White
Americans.’
Andrew
Korybko had something helpful to say about this:
Because most "white
nationalists" have lost touch with the ethnic identity of their ancestors
and largely don't consider themselves as Polish-, Italian-, Irish-, or other
European-Americans anymore but just as "white Americans" or more
simply only "white", it can be argued that they themselves are
ironically an outcome of the very same liberalism that they despise. This is
due to the "success" that the far-reaching socio-economic
implementation of this ideology has had in stripping them of their historical
traditions and making them an indistinguishable part of a larger amorphous
"white" blob which serves as a counterpart to what they view to be
the similarly indistinguishable "black and brown" blobs that
supposedly pose a threat to their culture.
Source: https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/understanding-charlottesville-isnt-simple-it-seems, Andrew Korybko, opened
19 Aug. 2017
The
cure for the symptoms of disillusion, etc. is not ultimately in our nationality
or our race alone, but in the Orthodox Church.
She is what gives life to a people - unity, wholeness, meaning, etc. -
or rather, the Holy Trinity Who lives in her.
We see it in East and West, St Symeon (Stefan Nemanja) and the Serbs, or
King St Edwin of Northumbria, etc.
‘The goal is to create a
polarizing social media spectacle. Again, we want to attract the angry,
alienated, disaffected and disillusioned and organize them into a cultural
vanguard.’
The
South is probably not going to regain cultural or political freedom at the
level of a street brawl. Those loyal to
Dixie are few in number, and there is little sympathy for such a cause even
among those in the South. Marching
through the streets with guns on the shoulder, torches in hand, and shouting
slogans will only alienate those she needs to come to her side. Besides this, the violent Marxists would love
for the last remnant of faithful Southerners to gather together where they
could easily be waylaid, maimed, or killed, thus wiping out what traces of Old
Southern culture remain. It is natural
for faithful children to want to live up to the legacy of their forefathers and
mothers, but noble and glorious battle isn’t the way for this generation, nor
would it resolve very much anyway, as that would not solve the root problem.
The
battle, it seems, must be fought at the religious and cultural level. To the extent she can, she must, as others
have suggested, set up parallel institutions (banks, schools, farms,
industries, stores, etc.) outside the influence of the transnational
corporations that would preserve, strengthen, and hand down her traditions from
generation to generation. A street march
won’t mean much to Mike McKenzie out in the country, but an interest-free loan
or a donation from the Bank of the South that would allow him, when he has
fallen on hard times and is being squeezed by the heartless banksters, to pay
the month’s house note would mean a good deal to him and to those around him.
Ultimately,
though, she must return to the Orthodox Church of her forebears and join
herself to the Orthodox Roman Empire rising again in Russia. The atheistic American Empire is collapsing;
the time to act may come sooner than we think.
A South splintered among (forgive us for being blunt) heretical Roman
Catholics and Protestants will fall apart into post-Modern nihilism, just as
post-Schism Western Europe has done. It
will come here eventually, and romantic nationalism, great poetry and music,
etc. will not ward it off. Indeed, it
has already begun to creep into Dixie.
The
greatest need right now, therefore, is for leaders like St Edwin or St
Ethelbert, King of Kent, who will lead all the willing Southerners, black and
white, into the Orthodox baptismal font; build churches, cathedrals, and
monasteries across the land; and actively evangelize those who remain outside
the True Faith. This will be her unity,
this will be her strength. In the
Orthodox Church, she will live; outside of her she will die.
But
if one still seeks ‘a polarizing social media spectacle’, what better one could
be given in this age of darkness, apostasy, and relativism than a very public
mass conversion of hundreds of Dixiemen and women to the Orthodox Faith, spitting
on all the deadly errors and heresies of Modernity, living according to the
Church’s calendar, keeping fasts and feasts, praying for the departed, and so
on?
Forgive
us sinful ones for writing, dear brothers and sisters.
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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