{"id":66775,"date":"2023-06-24T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=66775"},"modified":"2023-06-24T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T11:20:00","slug":"article-of-the-week-a-white-homeland-a-white-imperium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/24\/article-of-the-week-a-white-homeland-a-white-imperium\/","title":{"rendered":"Article of the Week: A White Homeland, A White Imperium"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A White Homeland, A White Imperium<\/a><\/h1>\n

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*Note: This article is based on remarks given by the author in reply to Dr. Greg Johnson at the 2023 Counter-Currents Spring Retreat.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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There is no question about whether we live in an imperial order. It\u2019s just a question about whose empire it is. You will always live under some sort of imperial ideals. It\u2019s a question of which ideals you\u2019re under.<\/h3>\n

Julius Evola contended that in the traditional world, \u201c[T]he state had a transcendent meaning and purpose that were not inferior to the ones the Catholic Church claimed for itself in the West as a manifestation of, and a path to, the \u2018world above.\u2019\u201d<\/h3>\n

It\u2019s tempting to say such a notion has faded in the modern world, that we live in a purely technocratic, rational system. Yet that is not true. A new faith has emerged that legitimizes our political and social order. It may not have come from \u201cabove,\u201d but we see the same pattern of a metaphysical ideal justifying power that Julius Evola saw. Jonathan Bowden argued that, in an age of subversion, traditional ideas are basically \u201cinverted,\u201d and we see that today. The structure of an imperial order exists \u2013 it\u2019s just that today\u2019s religious ideal comes from\u00a0below<\/em>.<\/h3>\n

Paul Gottfried has argued \u2014\u00a0and I agree with him<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 that antifascism is the\u00a0creation story<\/a>\u00a0of the modern West. Leave aside the fuzzy definition of what \u201cfascism\u201d even is \u2014 it\u2019s not necessary to define. We have a creation story that emerged from the ashes of World War II. The United Nations, international political institutions, and many postwar constitutions are explicitly based on the idea of avoiding the causes that our rulers say led to World War II.<\/h3>\n

Those causes include not just fascism or National Socialism, but racial identity, patriotism, and traditional religiosity. They are all the things that were once considered pillars of a nation or a society \u2014\u00a0R. R. Reno\u2019s \u201cstrong gods.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0The true meaning of World War II, however, was that it was a war against ourselves. That would certainly be a surprise to those who fought at the time. However, today, it is understood that fighting National Socialism wasn\u2019t really about fighting Germany, but fighting the inner racism that lies within all white people. Thus, every government in the West is constantly looking for racism and ethnocentrism among its own people, even in the nations of the so-called victors. Today, there\u2019s a bloodlust against \u201cNazis\u201d that\u2019s far stronger than what existed among the veterans who actually fought the Nazis.<\/h3>\n

This ideology is only deepening and growing more extreme and powerful. We can call it antifascism, or wokeness, or intersectionality. What\u2019s clear is that it is becoming an actual religion, not just something\u00a0like<\/em>\u00a0a religion. Incidentally, happy Pride Month to everyone reading this. In our new liturgical calendar, I think we have more feast days for martyrs (Matthew Shepherd, George Floyd, Martin Luther King, et al) and sacred groups than the Church had during the Middle Ages.<\/h3>\n

When we talk about an \u201cempire,\u201d we don\u2019t just mean a state ruling multiple ethnic groups. We mean a polity that claims authority from a divine or moral idea. That is what rules the West today. The creation myth that grew out of World War II is the foundation of our entire civilization. It is the basis of our state boundaries. It defines ultimate good and ultimate evil. It tells us what is sacred. You are allowed to mock God all you want, but certain groups and historical events are beyond question, and you will be thrown in jail for blaspheming them. The list of the sacrosanct is even expanding \u2014 some in Canada want to\u00a0make it illegal<\/a>\u00a0to deny that schools were killing American Indian children, even though there is little evidence for such a dramatic claim. Of course, when has evidence ever mattered against religious dogma?<\/h3>\n

Don\u2019t doubt that you live in a theocracy. Just say a certain name, use a certain symbol, or utter a certain word if you are part of the wrong group. Note the hysteria that results. The implication seems to be that such blasphemy could cause a demonic creed magically to resurrect or at least cause severe emotional damage to certain groups. Don\u2019t laugh \u2014 those kinds of premises are now common in the\u00a0media<\/a>\u00a0and even in the\u00a0law<\/a>. It\u2019s religious thinking \u2014 and when we hear the media insist that \u201cblack women are magic\u201d or hear them credit the claims of\u00a0miracles<\/a>\u00a0at the site where George Floyd died, we see that our supposedly \u201cscientific\u201d system has room for the supernatural.<\/h3>\n

The new creed is becoming more internally consistent and more expansive and is gaining more institutional backing. Now it even has its own symbol, in the intersectional or pride flag. This flag is simply anti-white, which is why it added black and brown stripes seemingly for no other reason but to praise the coalition against whites. In my time in Europe, I\u2019ve seen that imperial banner fly triumphantly from government buildings to bars, from churches to monuments. Make no mistake \u2014 that flag means more to many white people, especially upscale whites, than their supposed national flags. It is a banner that isn\u2019t just of the world order led from Washington, DC, but the army of well-funded NGOs and international organizations that carry out the Great Replacement.<\/h3>\n

Dr. Greg Johnson has referred quite often to the importance of national sovereignty. But we might as well refer to the intricacies of ecclesiastical law. There\u2019s not a country in the West that\u2019s still sovereign. Ethnic identities and even national states have proven no barrier to the imperial creed taking power in every Western nation. The regime that rules from the Potomac uses intersectionality to justify intervention throughout the world, and the Westphalian system of sovereign states is now practically nonexistent. In academia, media, and even fields like medicine, finding new ways to hunt down the demonic presence of \u201cracism\u201d is the best way to gain power and status within the imperial system.<\/h3>\n

I recently spoke with a Dutch nationalist who said that while each refugee who is brought in provides money and jobs for a host of left-wing activists, there\u2019s no nationalist equivalent. The ideology that rules us isn\u2019t just for show. It\u2019s a political scheme that legitimizes rule and provides social and financial benefits to its adherents. It transcends borders and countries. It is the faith of the current imperial order. It is explicitly anti-white.<\/h3>\n

We must deal with that apparatus \u2014 let\u2019s call it the imperial apparatus \u2014 before we can talk about anything regarding sovereignty. We must replace one imperial order with another.<\/h3>\n

Independence and sovereignty, by themselves, without a repudiation of the imperial creed, do nothing. Italy has a nationalist government, and yet NGOs have more power. In fact, basically the same class of managers govern every Western country. Perhaps, at best, if you shuffle some boundaries around, maybe you can throw up a few barriers to what\u2019s happening. I\u2019d support Flemish nationalism for that reason. But it\u2019s just not true that decentralization is inherently helpful.<\/h3>\n

What was the great populist triumph? Brexit. What happened after Brexit? Non-European immigration increased dramatically. Brexit was a complete disaster. The replacement of the British people continues under a Conservative government that has ruled for more than a decade.<\/h3>\n

Look at some of the most prominent secessionist movements in the West, such as Scotland\u2019s or Catalonia\u2019s. They want to leave what\u2019s left of their unitary nation-states so they can bring in more non-European migrants. Needless to say, they do not want to leave the European Union.<\/h3>\n

Is there even a real desire to break away from such pan-national institutions? France, one of the few countries that could be totally independent outside the EU, is back in the EU camp. Marine Le Pen abandoned her opposition to Brussels for political reasons. Any talk of the Netherlands leaving has long since faded. If anything, the EU will\u00a0expand<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

We must ask difficult questions about what ethnonationalism really means. In his \u201cOne White State or Many?<\/a>\u201d statement at the Counter-Currents Spring Retreat, Greg Johnson referred to the \u201cbad old nationalism\u201d that prompted intra-European conflicts within our race. However, there are certain questions that aren\u2019t about right and wrong, but us and them:<\/h3>\n