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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Offsite Post: ‘Japan and Dixie: What Two Peoples Subjugated by the Yankee Empire Have in Common’

 

It is a difficult thing to watch, the political leadership of Japan and the South making themselves more subservient to the globalist regime in Washington City at such a crucial time, when the evils of the unipolar U. S. world order could be dealt a crippling blow:  Sen Tom Cotton, Rep Chip Roy, PM Kishida, etc., are not making life better for the peoples of the world, or for their own.

But the deranged ruling class is one thing, and the normal folk of the traditional ethnoi whom they govern are another.  It is at this level, the level of the plain folk, that the peoples of Japan and the South can engage constructively.  And should they engage in a reasonably lengthy dialogue, they will find that they have a great deal in common.

The Sacred Land

Both Japan and Dixie view the creation as something more than dead, utilitarian matter.  For Japan,

‘ . . . the land itself is characterized as divine.  . . .  it is easy to understand how the early Japanese might have come to feel this sense of immanent divinity.  For natural beauty of scenery, Japan has few equals’ (Morton and Olenik, Japan: Its History and Culture, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 2005, p. 1).

Amongst Southerners, one will find men like the farmer-writer Wendell Berry of Kentucky who dwells often on this theme in his poems and other works and who spells the word ‘Creation’ with a capital ‘c’ to show his reverence for it.  The typical Southern feeling is put into words concisely by Edgar Allen Poe of Virginia in his poem, ‘Sonnet – To Science’:

 

‘SCIENCE! true daughter of Old Time thou art!

Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.

Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,

Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?

How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,

Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering

To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies

Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?

Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?

And driven the Hamadryad from the wood

To seek a shelter in some happier star?

Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,

The Elfin from the green grass, and from me

The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?’

The creation seems ever on the minds of both peoples.  In one of Japan’s most famous literary works, Tale of Genji, there are passages like this one:

‘Their room was in the front of the house.  Genji got up and opened the long sliding shutters.  They stood together looking out.  In the courtyard near them was a clump of fine Chinese bamboos; dew lay thick on the borders, glittering here no less brightly than in the great gardens to which Genji was better accustomed.  There was a confused buzzing of insects.  Crickets were chirping in the wall.  He had often listened to them, but always at a distance; now, singing so close to him, they made a music which was unfamiliar and indeed seemed far lovelier than that with which he was acquainted’ (Morton and Olenik, p. 44).

Even in the midst of overwhelming difficulties – her husband President Jefferson Davis cruelly imprisoned and her people and land desolated by the Yankee invader after the War of Northern Aggression had ended – Mrs Varina Davis, showing the irrepressible love of the South towards the creatures of God’s making, still devotes several lines in her letter to her husband on observations of the natural world around her:

‘I have just been interrupted by pretty ittie Paie coming in to beg me come out and “hear sing.”  I went and heard mocking birds.  Between the borders of jonquils and hyacinths, blue, yellow, and white, and over the dry leaves and ground powdered with plum blossom petals, for the trees have bloomed and shed their blossoms.  The spireas are all in bloom, the periwinkles and the violets’ (Jefferson Davis: Private Letters 1823-1889, H. Strode, edr., Da Capo Press, New York, 1995, p. 237).

Religious Pluralism

It is said of Japan,

‘Neither the Chinese nor the Japanese people have difficulty in regulating their lives by the ideas of more than one faith at the same time.  An official might therefore attend a national festival such as the New Year ceremonies, conducted according to Shinto rites, but have a Buddhist service celebrated for the repose of his mother’s soul, and apply Confucian canons to his government administration, without the least sense of inner contradiction’ (Morton and Olenik, p. 29).

Anyone familiar with Dixie will see something similar here, where Roman Catholics, Protestant denominations of many kinds, and Judaism have all coexisted side-by-side without much problem since the early days of the South’s existence. 

Simple Faith

Dixie and Japan have also both adopted an uncomplicated folk religion emphasizing simplicity and feeling rather than abstract doctrinal analysis:

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The rest is at 

https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/japan-and-dixie-what-two-peoples-subjugated-yankee-empire-have-common

And also at

https://katehon.com/en/article/japan-and-dixie-what-two-peoples-subjugated-yankee-empire-have-common

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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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