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Nation States Under Attack
We are currently living at a time when nation states all over the “West” are being destroyed from within by an entire array of artificially induced mental conditions. However, instead of giving the growing numbers of patients suffering from those conditions the psychiatric treatment they deserve, isolating them from society and giving them substances to ease their sufferings, an opposite strategy has been adopted. Boys and men who think they are women, cats, frogs, birds or whatever; girls and women who think they are Tarzan, hermaphrodites desiring to show their anatomical details, are being taken seriously by medical specialists eager to earn a fast buck by cutting off sex organs and secondary sex attributes, or perform intricate plastic surgery in an effort to imitate the work of nature. Not only these patients are sick, but so are all those collaborating psychiatrists and surgeons, as well as the judges and politicians who allow them to forsake their medical oaths. The growing numbers of anti-white racists who, under the guise of anti-racism, go on a rampage to pillage, destroy, rape and kill their fellow citizens are likewise being goaded by the ruling classes in the “West.” The same goes for all those climate lunatics out there, the people who actually believe that by their actions they can stop heliogenic climate change. They are all stormtroopers in the service of elites who are out to destroy the economy, society and the nation state.
The elites in the European nation states, and in the US and Canada as well, are attacking the nation state from all sides. Having embraced the concept of “multiculturalism,” they have been fomenting mass immigration from especially Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Fundamentally from places whose inhabitants share nothing with the majorities in Europe and North America, apart from the fact they have two legs, two hands and a head with some functioning brain cells. That is about all they have in common. The waves of Third-World fortune seekers has now become a veritable tsunami that is already choking normal society in many towns and villages.
For a much longer period, however, the nation state, especially in Europe, has been under attack from the outside. The Second World War, the conquest by the US and de Soviet Union as well as postwar reconstruction have made serious dents in the national sovereignty of all European states.[1]See Hans Vogel, How Europe Became American (London: Arktos, 2021). All of these were, or purported to be, nation states. The UN, OECD, NATO, the EU, the IMF, the World Bank and the International Penal Court at The Hague, all of these organizations entirely or partially financed and directed by the US government with or without the cooperation of Wall Street, have been further eroding what was left of national sovereignty in Europe.[2]Thierry Baudet, De aanval op de natiestaat (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2016).
Perhaps those elites believe it is possible to rebuild what they are now destroying, but since it is highly probable that Capitalism itself is dead, it is very much to be doubted if the nation state can be resuscitated. In this respect, it may be useful to take a closer look at what the nation state is and how it came into existence.
This is most clearly visible in the home of the nation state, namely in Europe and the Americas. It should also be borne in mind that the nation state has always been a rather rickety structure, replete with contradictions and non-sequiturs. It may be said that today the only state that still emphatically claims to be a nation state and that does so aggressively and with all means at its disposal, not shying away from any tool or method, is the State of Israel.[3]Actually, the Israeli nation state is also supported just by fiction: Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (London: Verso, 2009) In this sense it is truly an anachronism, since the leading states in the world today are, almost by definition, multinational, multi-ethnic and multi-religious amalgams: the United States, Russia, China and India. In the second tier we find Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, Turkey and Iran. Sure enough, with varying success, these states have been trying and are continuing to try, to form a kind of docile subjects. The traditional nation state is therefore ipso facto the enemy of these rather kaleidoscopic states. For them it is fine when the locals want to speak their native gibberish or want to dance around some pole in their folkloric costumes, as long as they unconditionally accept the primacy of whatever the imperial capital decrees.
Nations and Nationalism
Since the beginning of the nineteenth century nation building was of crucial importance in Europe and the Americas. This was to do with the end of the so-called Ancien Regime in connection with the French Revolution of 1789. Whereas most parts of Europe and the Americas (apart from a few republics, in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Venice) had been held together politically by monarchical structures, from that point on other methods of political organization needed to be devised. Thus modern nations came into existence. If these were monarchies, they were usually embedded in written constitutions, which fundamentally changed the status of monarchs.
Some of the countries of the Old World had already achieved nationhood during the Middle Ages. In medieval France, Paris had been the center of nation building, in which the monarchy occupied a central place. The monks of the monastery of Saint-Denis near Paris took care of the propaganda, and elaborated a national myth around the royal family and the sacred nature of the king.[4]Joachim Ehlers, “Elemente mittelalterlicher Nationsbildung in Frankreich (10.-13. Jahrhundert),” Historische Zeitschrift 231 (1980), 565-87. Official historiography thus emphasized the unity of the state, royal authority, religion, and historical consciousness. But apart from France and England, few countries had been able to transform themselves into nations: political structures with a single dominant language, a single religion, and more importantly, one single loyalty. That loyalty was to the monarch, the alleged incarnation of national values. The less force required to enforce this political holy trinity, the stronger the state, or nation. In France and England, challenges to these pillars of national unity had been fought off with success, as for instance, during the wars of religion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During the Atlantic revolution (or democratic revolution, in the words of US historian Robert Palmer) between 1750 and 1850, “nations” proliferated on both sides of the Atlantic—nations, and countries pretending to be nations. Only after 1945 has the world seen a comparable sudden increase in new nations, or purported nations.
All nations face certain common problems, the most important one being the need to secure the loyalty of the citizens. Antonio Gramsci pointed out that what he termed hegemony needed to be constructed, and then maintained with the help of loyal civil servants, bureaucrats, and intellectuals.[5]Antonio Gramsci, The Modern Prince and other Writings (New York: International Publishers, 1957), 118-25 and 186.
The stronger the hegemony, the less brute force required to perpetuate a particular political construction, state, or nation. It may even be said that as soon as a state has succeeded in having its citizens internalize loyalty and display loyal behavior, the state becomes a nation-state, or nation. Nascent states need to assure themselves of a sufficiently broad popular base of support in order to survive.
The literature dealing with nationalism and related subjects such as nation, national identity, nation building, nationality, as well as with patriotism is exceedingly vast. Countless historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, and assorted non-specialists have devoted their time to the analysis of these topics.[6]For instance, Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780. Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) The literature can be roughly divided according to the way in which the authors regard the process of national formation. Some see it as a natural and organic process spontaneously taking place at a certain stage of historical development in a particular country or general area. Others subscribe to the notion that a nation is artificial, and as such the product of a conscious nation building effort on the part of a ruling class. One might call the former the idealist, or romantic school, the latter the materialist school. The latter assumes that first there is a state, a political entity, which then creates, or helps to create, a nation. This view is indissolubly linked with nationalism. The other line of reasoning maintains that first, there is national feeling, or nationalism, which then leads to the formation of a separate nation. The nation in turn brings forth the state.
The romantic school traces its origins back to the sixteenth-century French philosopher Jean Bodin, and more notably to the German eighteenth-century romantic thinkers Gottfried von Herder and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Herder taught that a people (Volk) possessed a character all its own, and that this special character had been shaped in primeval times. The purer such a Volk, the better. In Herder’s eyes language was identical with the Volk. His ideas proved quite attractive for subject Central European peoples during the course of the nineteenth century, and in the beginning of the twentieth, in their striving for national independence.[7]Robert R. Ergang, Herder and the Foundation of German Nationalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931). Federico Chabod gives a good account of the way in which nationalism became connected with an increased awareness of nature and the individual. This is illustrated with the example of mid-eighteenth-century German-speaking Switzerland.[8]Federico Chabod, L’idea di nazione (Bari: Laterza, 1961). In the nineteenth century French historians Jules Michelet and Edgar Quinet felt attracted to Herder’s thesis about the individuality of a people. Recently, one of the more eloquent advocates of this line of thought has argued that the tendency to identify a nation with a language was attractive because of general convenience.[9]Heinrich Koppelmann, Nation, Sprache und Nationalismus (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1956). In the twentieth century, German emigre scholars have made significant contributions to the study of the problem of nationalism. Frederick Hertz has redefined the debate by introducing more factors than just “natural” national identity. For him, national consciousness was the foremost criterion of nationality, but he regarded religion, economic interests, natural frontiers and historical rights as powerful supporting elements. Hans Kohn gave his treatment of the topic an ideological twist. A romanticist, he divided nationalism into two basic varieties, a western and a non-western type. The western type was allegedly political, rational, pluralist, and freedom loving, whereas the other type was cultural in character, irrational, authoritarian, and collectivist. The former was to be found in the states bordering the Northern Atlantic, the latter in Central Europe, and everywhere else. Needless to say, Kohn’s views clearly echoed World War II ideological struggles between democracy and fascism.[10]Frederick Hertz, Nationality in History and Politics (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1944), and Hans Kohn, The Idea of Nationalism (New York: Macmillan, 1944). Other important romanticists include Luigi Sturzo, who sees the collective personality of a nation as the reflection of the collective popular will, and Carlton Hayes, who thinks along lines similar to those of Kohn. Like Herder, Hayes considered language as the basic determinant of the nation.[11]Luigi Sturzo, Nationalism and Internationalism (New York: Roy, 1946), and Carlton J. H. Hayes, Nationalism: a Religion, (New York: Macmillan, 1960). The fundamentally romantic interpretation of what constitutes a nation, what makes a nation-state, has regained popularity and prominence among academics, most notably Anthony D. Smith.
As for “materialist” thought, it may be said to have originated with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his social contract. In itself, this was a continuation of the age-old idea, first put forward by Aristotle, about the voluntary association of a group of persons and villages into a larger unit, so as to further the common cause. Outstanding among nineteenth-century expressions of this idea is the French historian Ernest Renan, who argued that the nation was intrinsically subjective, and that the members of a nation in fact carried out a “daily referendum,” thus reinforcing the true bonds holding society and the state together.[12]Ernest Renan, “Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?”, an address given at the Sorbonne in 1882. In Oeuvres Complètes vol. 1 (Paris: Calmann-Levi, 1947).
Among those who insist particularly on the artificial character of the nation, Marxists figure prominently. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels have often implicitly accepted the common nineteenth-century romantic opinion that the world was divided into nations, each with its own particular identity. For instance, Marx, in the Eighteenth Brumaire repeatedly refers to a French nation as opposed to the machinations of the bourgeoisie and Napoleon III. Nowhere is it clear, however, what Marx considered to be that nation. According to Marxist socialism, it is the owners of the means of production in a given area, the bourgeoisie, that strive to form nation states, in order to create an exclusive market for their products. Since nations are therefore essentially economic entities, Marx argued that, eventually, nations and nationalism would come to an end due to the growth of the workers movement and international solidarity.[13]Jacob Talmon has provided an in-depth analysis of Marxism and nationalism: The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution (London: Secker and Warburg, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980). In general, however, Marxists tend to regard the nation as the conscious creation of a national bourgeoisie in order to further its own interests. Marxist theory concerning nation building has been applied most consistently by Margit Mayer and Margaret A. Fay. They argue that economic interests to create an integrated market impelled North American capitalists and the bourgeoisie to give more power, meaning and content to the weak and ineffective federal political framework as a result of the American Revolution.[14]Margit Mayer and Margaret A. Fay, “Formation of theAmerican Nation-State,” Kapitalistate 6 (Fall, 1977), 39-90. The article is a reworking of Mayer’s Dissertation “Zur Genese des Nationalstaats in Amerika” (Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1977).
Non-Marxists as well have devoted their energies to show how a small elite may be instrumental in the process of nation building. Robert Palmer, as it were according to Gramscian thinking, has shown how intellectuals (teachers, preachers and the like) helped spread an incipient revolutionary nationalist idea well before the French Revolution took place.[15]Robert R. Palmer, “The National Idea in France Before the Revolution,” Journal of the History of Ideas 1 (1940), 95-111. Peter Burke has analyzed a process whereby popular ideas were gradually pushed aside and replaced by an official culture imposed from above. Thus in Western Europe, traditional ideas of localism and regionalism had to disappear because they interfered with the establishment of an effective state bureaucracy that could control the general allegiance of its subjects. Upon this solid base, modern governments could continue to build nation-states, as Eugene Weber has demonstrated.[16]Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (New York: Harper, 1978); see also Eugene Weber , Peasants into Frenchmen, The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976). The works by Burke and Weber, to which should be added the important contribution edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger,[17]Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). are among a small number of detailed studies on the formation of national states and nation building, demonstrating the fundamentally artificial nature of nations.
It may be argued, therefore, that a nation is consciously created by a group of leading citizens of a certain political entity, a country, so as to provide an emotional content for what might otherwise continue to be an institutional framework devoid of meaning to its members, the inhabitants. Most likely, the leading citizens would belong to an aristocracy or oligarchy, or in the Marxist sense, a bourgeoisie. In fact, much of the work of nation building, that is to say the formulation or production of nationalist ideas, and the production of artifacts supposedly representative of a “national spirit,” would be carried out by intellectuals: university graduates such as lawyers, doctors, judges, engineers and historians, but also artists, poets, writers, students and journalists.
Europe
Apart from France and England, most European nation-states were formed between 1800 and 1950. In the collective mind it is taken for granted that national states and national languages and cultures are overlapping. However, this idea is fundamentally erroneous. Of course, all European nation states have their national language. Additionally, in some countries, apart from the national language, there are regional languages with an official status. These countries include France (Breton in Brittany and Catalan in the Roussillon), The Netherlands (Frisian in Friesland), Spain (Catalan in Catalonia, Galician and Basque), Britain (Welsh, Irish and Gaelic), Germany (Danish in Schleswig-Holstein), Italy (French in Aosta, German in Trentino, Greek and Albanian in enclaves in the south), Finland (Swedish in the Southwest), Poland, Austria, Greece, Bulgaria and others. Actually, only Portugal and Iceland are more or less completely monolingual and with little difference between dialects. Like in Spain and Italy, regions in Russia where other languages are spoken often have an autonomous political status.
Switzerland has three national languages, namely German, French and Italian. Belgium also has three: Dutch, French and German. Does that mean that the Swiss and the Belgians, depending on their native language, are either German, Dutch, French or Italian? Several major European languages (German, French, Italian, Dutch) each have dozens of dialects. Even English, spoken in Great Britain and Ireland, has between twenty and forty dialects. The speakers of one dialect most often cannot understand those of another dialect. Actually, from a linguistic point of view, it is impossible to define the difference between a dialect and a language, the difference being merely political (“a language is a dialect with an army”). Moreover, it should be borne in mind that nowhere before the end of the 19th century did a majority or even a plurality of the population speak the national language on a daily basis. It was only thanks to compulsory primary education and universal military service that national languages eventually became truly “national.” In Italy, for example, it was only during the 1960s that, thanks to national television and the automobile, Italian truly became the majority language in the country. Still today, in day-to-day life, most Italians prefer their local dialect over the official national language.
Although in the eyes of many, European nation states are solid constructions, deeply rooted in history, and imbued with a robust national sentiment going back hundreds of years. This is purely a romantic idea without a factual foundation.
Great pains were taken during the 19th century to instill a kind of nationalism in the population. Interestingly enough, this was done by trying to reconnect with events and persons from a very distant past: Roman antiquity. It was suggested that supposed national characteristics and virtues were traceable to a period supposedly two thousand years earlier. This amounted to asserting that national traits were permanent and immutable.
Two places where Roman antiquity served as an inspiration for early nationalism were Germany and the Netherlands. Germany, divided into several dozens of kingdoms, duchies and counties and loosely held together by the Emperor and the popular language, was elated when in 1425 the manuscript Germania, attributed to Tacitus, was discovered in Hersfeld Abbey, and subsequently printed and published. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Dutch more or less shared the German pride of being descendants of the brave Arminius, but then developed an identity of their own. Another place where an early nationalism based on Roman antiquity was developed was Portugal in the 16th century. Here the hero was Viriato (Viriathus in Latin), a warrior from the Lusitanian people, who in 147 b. C. began a guerrilla against the Roman occupation, which then morphed into an open war that almost resulted in kicking the Romans out of the Iberian peninsula.
During the 19th century, it became sort of fashionable for European states to look around in the distant past for a hero of some struggle against the Romans and then transform him into an early representative of national virtues and a model for all generations to follow. In 1838, work was begun on a giant statue in honor of Germanic warrior chief Arminius (known as Hermann der Cherusker in German), who in 9 AD defeated a Roman army consisting of three legions (about 30,000 men) in the Teutoburg Forest. Due to financial penury, the giant bronze statue of some 80 feet could only be completed in 1875, when it was unveiled in the presence of German Emperor Wilhelm I. In a sense this latter date was doubly significant, because only four years earlier, the united armies of Germany had defeated France in the Franco-German War. In Belgium Ambiorix was identified as a suitable hero. This was a Gaulish chieftain who in 54 b. C. tried to liberate Gaul from Roman occupation, but was defeated by Julius Caesar. Belgium, which sorely needed a national hero after achieving its political independence in 1830 warmly embraced Ambiorix. In 1866 a monument to him was erected in the provincial city of Tongeren. In 1865, French Emperor Napoleon III commissioned a statue of Vercingetorix, Gaulish leader of the great rebellion against Roman occupation in 52 b. C. and who was finally defeated by Julius Caesar. The Celtic warrior chieftain was presented as the embodiment of all the superior qualities attributed to the French according to the nationalist code. Both Ambiorix and Vercingetorix, whose effigies were, of course entirely invented, are wearing impressive mustaches, which according to scarce available documentation on the period, were the typical attribute of Gaulish men. Around the end of the 19th century, Viriato also got his bronze statue (in 1903, in Zamora, Spain and one in Viseu, Portugal). Rather fittingly in Britain, ruled by Queen Victoria since 1837, an elaborate bronze monument was unveiled in 1885, representing Queen Boudicca and her daughters. Celtic Queen Boudicca had led a courageous resistance of the early Britons against the Roman invaders.
Where there were no heroes to be dug up from antiquity, heroes from later periods were dusted off to do the job. Thanks to the preparatory work by German poet Friedrich Schiller and Italian opera composer Gioacchino Rossini, the Swiss were regaled with the figure of Willam Tell, the simple peasant who stood up to a foreign tyrant during the Middle Ages. In 1895 an elaborate monument representing him was unveiled in the small provincial town of Altdorf near Lake Lucerne in Central Switzerland.
Italy, which became a unified state only in 1861 after a rather tortuous independence process, could not fall back on a native hero of the resistance against Imperial Rome. It had to content itself therefore with contemporary heroes, the most important of whom was Giuseppe Garibaldi, duly honored with bronze statues, marble plaques and street names.
No nation and no nationalism without heroes, so much is obvious. And where there are none, they have to be dug up or invented,
The Americas
According to the research by Elise Marienstras, religiously-inspired feelings of superiority were prominent among many of the 17th-century European settlers on the American East coast. Not only the calvinist Pilgrim Fathers in New England and the Dutch settlers in New Netherlands (New York), but also the Lutheran Swedes of New Sweden on the Delaware were convinced of the superiority of their own group. This sense of superiority, especially with regard to Indians, blacks and Roman Catholics, soon became a distinguishing trait of a kind of colonial patriotism and had a decisive influence on the first manifestations of a distinctive American nationalism at the end of the 18th century.[18]Elise Marienstras, Les mythes fondateurs de la nation américaine: Essai sur le discours idéologique aux Etats-Unis a l’époque de l’indépendance 1763-1800 (Paris: Maspero, 1976). The American War of Independence, the subsequent struggle to secure its place in the wider world, the conflict with Mexico, the presence of a Westward-shifting frontier further helped define American nationalism. There is no lack of specialized studies that document and discuss this phenomenon. Among the most elaborate and thorough was written by Vernon L. Parrington.[19]Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought. An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920 (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926). The organic development of a uniform, universally accepted American nationalism was rudely interrupted by the “War Between the States,” generally known as the “Civil War,” which was not fought primarily over the abolition of slavery, such as it has become a tenet of historical orthodoxy, but over the demarcation of federal and state jurisdictions. The tensions that led to the outbreak of the war can also be observed in the “European Union” today.
During more than a century after the end of the civil war, the American South developed a nationalism all its own, symbolized by the “Stars and Bars” flag and lavish bronze statues to General Robert E. Lee and other Confederate generals and politicians. In their shadow, the Ku Klux Klan, the nationalist organization of middle-class and poor whites was allowed to thrive.[20]David Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: the History of the Ku Klux Klan (Chicago: Quadrangle Books 1968). Since the late 1950s, due to an unabated, ever more intensive offensive by the civil rights movement and its latter-day heirs, culminating in the violent mob action in the wake of the 2020 race riots after the accidental death of George Floyd, many Confederate symbols have been eliminated, dismantled or just destroyed. The Confederate flag was erased from the state flags of Georgia and Mississippi. In other words, Confederate nationalism was forced to make way for a wave of inverted racial hatred and prejudice. This new racism, going hand in hand with a persistent demand for “equal rights” for all kinds of newly invented sexual and racial identities, was declared to be part of American national ideology by the Biden administration. Obviously, the government emphatically wants to make it very clear that it wants blacks and people with all sorts of sexual deviancies and problems to understand it considers them part of the American people, which is, of course absolutely redundant because the Declaration of Independence states that “all men are created equal.”
Yet special treatment for certain groups is not new in the US. Something similar was done in 1907 when Columbus Day was declared a federal statutory holiday, especially to make the ever growing numbers of Italians and Italian Americans feel part of the American people. In the years 1900-1914, three million Italians settled in the US, making them one of the most important contingents of immigrants.
The reason why the transgender and woke agendas are now being used as integrative tools (thereby also necessarily operating as a divisive agent among older and more traditionally inclined generations) may be that the Second World War heroic narrative is has become worn-out and stale. The very narrative has descended into a kind of violent vaudeville, to the point that a movie like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Bastards transcends the limits of what is still believable.
Nationalism has long been regarded as one of the keys to the understanding of Latin American politics and history. Numerous authors have devoted their energy to studies of this subject. Unfortunately, however, much of the literature so far produced has been repetitive.[21]Good introductions are Arthur P. Whitaker, Nationalism in Latin America (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1962); Samuel L. Bailey, ed., Nationalism in Latin America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971); Gerhard Masur, Nationalism in Latin America (New York: Macmillan, 1966). Detailed studies of the formation of national states upon the ruins of the Spanish Empire are few and far between.[22]Gonzalo Vial Correa, “La formación de las nacionalidades hispanoamericanas como causa de la independencia,” Boletín de la Academia Chilena de la Historia 33 (second semester 1966) 110-44; an older article studies revolutionary vocabulary, see Jorge Basadre, “Historia de la idea de patria en la emancipación del Perú,” Mercurio Peruano, 39 (1954), 53-75.
In Spanish America, the central problem for the creoles who had just shaken off the Spanish imperial yoke was the construction of a credible and politically useable national past. On the one hand they needed to take their distance from the Spanish cultural and political heritage—identifying to a degree with the native Americans, the Indians—while on the other hand they needed to ensure their continued dominance over those very Indians. Thus there was an almost unbridgeable gap between two pillars of creole political thought and action. The creole mind had deep roots. Creole relations with the indigenous peoples were the cornerstone of the colonial political and social establishment. In this respect, Latin American nations were indeed already constructed to a certain degree while still under colonial rule. In Guatemala, for instance, the creoles willfully and very deliberately excluded Indians, mestizos, and Spanish peninsular newcomers from participating in colonial social, economic and ceremonial benefits.[23]Leopoldo Zea, The Latin American Mind (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970). The papers read at a conference held in 1983 at the University of Hamburg, in Germany, in commemoration of the bicentenary of the birth of Simón Bolivar, have been published recently. Many familiar themes are discussed, and taken together, they provide a valuable contribution to the topic of Latin American nationalism and nation building. See Inge Buisson, Gunther Kahle, Hans-Joachim König and Horst Pietschmann, eds., Problemas de la formación del estado y de la nación en Hispanoamérica (Bonn: Inter Nationes, 1984). See also Severo Martínez Peláez, La patria del criollo (Guatemala City: Editorial Universitaria, 1973).
Obviously, for the successor states of especially the Spanish colonial empire, it was just not possible to claim the local indigenous past as a source of inspiration for the nations these were trying to build. This was only done during the 20th century in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and to a certain extent in Ecuador, that is precisely in those regions where indigenous civilizations had come to fruition before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.
In Argentina, national origins and the process of nation building can be observed quite well. One might even say it is somewhat of a laboratory case of nation building.[24]Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991).
Traditionally in Argentina, nationalism sells well, literally. There is a steady and considerable market for profound and less profound analyses of the national character, the fate of the nation, its future, its grand past, its missed chances, its rightful place among the other nations of the world, national heroes like Juan Domingo Perón, heroic actions, and above all, the unique character of the Argentine people and its unique expressions, the gaucho and the tango. But the Argentine nation, whether real or imagined, was the creation of a number of influential citizens. The group of leading citizens, aristocrats, oligarchs, and intellectuals, in nineteenth-century Argentina was reasonably homogeneous, restricted and exclusive. The main branch of this group naturally resided in the capital, Buenos Aires, living off the rents of their extensive cattle domains and profiting from international trade. In the nineteenth century, this group tried to recreate a European state in Argentina, ignoring existing social and economic realities in the country at large that were determined by the heritage of Spanish, Indian and Mestizo culture. These native cultural values were intentionally ignored and relegated to the background of Argentine cultural life.[25]E. Bradford Burns, The Poverty of Progress (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981). Authors such as Domingo F. Sarmiento and Juan Bautista Alberdi have sought to denounce the native heritage and values and tried to impose non-Spanish European ideas upon their country. Subsequently, these new ideas were woven together in the general concept of an “Argentinian nation,” European in outlook, spirit and tradition. These new ideas were received eagerly by the Argentine upper classes, who were only too willing to construct a nation that would be consistent with their worldview and international business ties.
There is a national preoccupation with nationalism, dating from the golden years of Argentina, between 1880 and 1930, when it was undisputedly the leader among the fellow nations of Latin America. That half-century saw the creation of Argentine national mythology. Works dealing with the colonial past, for instance, clearly reflected contemporary notions of what Argentina was like, and what it should be like.
The myth of an Argentine race, or distinct people, created around 1900 by José Ingenieros, Ricardo Rojas and Roberto Levillier, to name just a few, was in part also a reaction against the massive waves of foreign immigrants that flooded the country in its golden years.[26]Carl J. Solberg, Immigration and Nationalism: Argentina and Chile, 1890-1914 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970). Argentinians were told they were by nature cosmopolitan, democratic-minded, tolerant, virtuous, courageous, ready to sacrifice themselves in order to save their fatherland and in addition, racially superior.[27]Adolfo Garretón, La municipalidad colonial, desde su fundación hasta el gobierno de J. Láriz (Buenos Aires: J. Menéndez, 1933) Juan Agustín Garela, La ciudad indiana: Buenos Aires desde 1600 hasta mediados del siglo XVIII (Buenos Aires: Estrada, n.d.); Roberto Levillier, Les origines argentines: la formation d’un grand peuple (Paris: Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1912); José Ingenieros, La formación de una raza argentina, in volume 4 of his Obras Completas (Buenos Aires: Mar Océano, 1961). The cultural and literary historian Ricardo Rojas coined the term argentinidad, “Argentinity” to denote the special set of virtues and qualities that supposedly characterized the Argentinian people. Rojas believed that literature reflected the inner soul and the political and social thought of the nation. Rojas himself was instrumental in laying bare for the Argentine public their own inner stirrings with his influential works on national literature.[28]Earl T. Glauert, “Ricardo Rojas and the Emergence of Argentine Cultural Nationalism,” Hispanic American Historical Review 43:1 (1963), 1-13.
Argentinian historical convention has it that there have been at least two, or even three, different Argentines, the first, from 1810 till about 1880, the second from 1880 till 1930, and the last, from about 1940 till the present. The underlying notion is that in each of these periods, the Argentinian nation has had a different character. Thus, instead of historical continuity, national history is rather marked by abrupt breaks. For most contemporary authors, the real Argentina has only existed since the arrival of millions of immigrants and their slow integration and absorption into the preexisting Argentinian people. True nation building and the formation of a national community thus would be a recent phenomenon.
However, efforts at nation building were by no means limited to more recent periods, in fact dating form the very beginning of Argentina’s existence as an independent country. Methods, ideas and goals of the early nation builders were remarkably similar to later efforts. From the very beginning, the Argentinian revolution for independence presented itself to the population of Buenos Aires by means of propaganda. The Revolutionary Junta that took power in 1810 assured that things had changed for the better, and that it was doing everything in its power to guarantee the wellbeing of the population. But government propaganda claimed their loyalty in return. Concurrently, the revolutionary governments sought to change the physical and temporal world of the citizens. The city streets were given new names, while a revolutionary calendar replaced the old one dominated by religious holidays and an occasional monarchical celebration.[29]Hans Vogel, “Fiestas patrias y nuevas lealtades en Buenos Aires,” Todo es Historia 287 (1991), 42-50. The importance of revolutionary festivals as a yardstick of political loyalty was lost on few people. Dissenters, adversaries and certain foreigners were reluctant to show up on national holidays. Many of these, unhappy with their status and fearing for their possessions or positions, eventually sought salvation by means of naturalization.[30]Hans Vogel, “New Citizens for a New Nation: Naturalization in Early Independent Argentina,” Hispanic American Historical Review 71:1 (1991), 107-131.
The Way Ahead
At this point in time, it may be said that the energy, time and attention for detail that have gone into founding and building nations are matched today only by the determination and single minded destructive dedication of those committed to kill those very nations.
In view of the attack on the existing nation state that is underway these days, many in Europe and the US take a dim view of the chances for survival of their societies. It is obvious these will not survive in their present form, that is just plainly impossible. Moreover, why would states survive the general collapse that is currently taking place?
Some observers, such as French philosopher Francis Cousin have concluded that Capitalism is dead and under no circumstances can be resuscitated.[31]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTMpxFRyFbg
Video Link He may be right and in that case the death of the nation state will be inevitable. If national states collapse, this will be the equivalent of a change in the political system, which inevitably goes hand in hand with violence. That is some kind of historical law.
After the collapse of the national state, something must take its place. In many cases, a new configuration will likely not follow the borders of the former nation states. Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld has predicted that, at least in Europe, a period of international anarchy and confusion with great numbers of small fiefdoms engaged in permanent war against one another, such as during the Middle Ages is going to follow upon the collapse of nation states.[32]Martin van Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Such small political units may actually look very much like the Amish settlements in the US, or the Mennonite colonies that were founded in South America around 1900: largely autarkic communities held together by bond of kinship, religion, customs and language. Actually, as regards their character and modus operandi, such communities are quite similar to the indigenous tribal communities that Europeans first encountered when they set foot in the Americas, some of which still survive today. Yet given the precarious existence of such communities in a hostile environment, it will be necessary always to be ready to fight for survival.
During the 2008 financial crisis that severely hit Greece, many young urban professionals left the city and settled in the ancestral rural homes that their grandparents had left half a century ago when they moved to the city in search of work. Today, with economic penury spreading across Europe, this flight from the big city has become popular in other EU countries, especially in the Mediterranean. The Italian government is actively promoting the resettlement of abandoned villages, selling houses for one Euro, on condition they be restored and modernized by the owner.
In view of current developments, it is quite likely that van Creveld’s prediction will come true and that interesting times lie ahead of us.
If, however, somehow or other, nation states would manage a restart, they could use the experiences in Argentina and to a lesser extent the US as an example of how to integrate successfully large numbers of foreigners.
As is so often the case, history may serve as a source of inspiration for the solution of problems we are faced with today.
Notes
[1] See Hans Vogel, How Europe Became American (London: Arktos, 2021).
[2] Thierry Baudet, De aanval op de natiestaat (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2016).
[3] Actually, the Israeli nation state is also supported just by fiction: Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (London: Verso, 2009)
[4] Joachim Ehlers, “Elemente mittelalterlicher Nationsbildung in Frankreich (10.-13. Jahrhundert),” Historische Zeitschrift 231 (1980), 565-87.
[5] Antonio Gramsci, The Modern Prince and other Writings (New York: International Publishers, 1957), 118-25 and 186.
[6] For instance, Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780. Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
[7] Robert R. Ergang, Herder and the Foundation of German Nationalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931).
[8] Federico Chabod, L’idea di nazione (Bari: Laterza, 1961).
[9] Heinrich Koppelmann, Nation, Sprache und Nationalismus (Leiden: Sijthoff, 1956).
[10] Frederick Hertz, Nationality in History and Politics (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1944), and Hans Kohn, The Idea of Nationalism (New York: Macmillan, 1944).
[11] Luigi Sturzo, Nationalism and Internationalism (New York: Roy, 1946), and Carlton J. H. Hayes, Nationalism: a Religion, (New York: Macmillan, 1960).
[12] Ernest Renan, “Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?”, an address given at the Sorbonne in 1882. In Oeuvres Complètes vol. 1 (Paris: Calmann-Levi, 1947).
[13] Jacob Talmon has provided an in-depth analysis of Marxism and nationalism: The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution (London: Secker and Warburg, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980).
[14] Margit Mayer and Margaret A. Fay, “Formation of theAmerican Nation-State,” Kapitalistate 6 (Fall, 1977), 39-90. The article is a reworking of Mayer’s Dissertation “Zur Genese des Nationalstaats in Amerika” (Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1977).
[15] Robert R. Palmer, “The National Idea in France Before the Revolution,” Journal of the History of Ideas 1 (1940), 95-111.
[16] Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (New York: Harper, 1978); see also Eugene Weber , Peasants into Frenchmen, The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976).
[17] Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
[18] Elise Marienstras, Les mythes fondateurs de la nation américaine: Essai sur le discours idéologique aux Etats-Unis a l’époque de l’indépendance 1763-1800 (Paris: Maspero, 1976).
[19] Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought. An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920 (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926).
[20] David Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: the History of the Ku Klux Klan (Chicago: Quadrangle Books 1968).
[21] Good introductions are Arthur P. Whitaker, Nationalism in Latin America (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1962); Samuel L. Bailey, ed., Nationalism in Latin America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971); Gerhard Masur, Nationalism in Latin America (New York: Macmillan, 1966).
[22] Gonzalo Vial Correa, “La formación de las nacionalidades hispanoamericanas como causa de la independencia,” Boletín de la Academia Chilena de la Historia 33 (second semester 1966) 110-44; an older article studies revolutionary vocabulary, see Jorge Basadre, “Historia de la idea de patria en la emancipación del Perú,” Mercurio Peruano, 39 (1954), 53-75.
[23] Leopoldo Zea, The Latin American Mind (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970). The papers read at a conference held in 1983 at the University of Hamburg, in Germany, in commemoration of the bicentenary of the birth of Simón Bolivar, have been published recently. Many familiar themes are discussed, and taken together, they provide a valuable contribution to the topic of Latin American nationalism and nation building. See Inge Buisson, Gunther Kahle, Hans-Joachim König and Horst Pietschmann, eds., Problemas de la formación del estado y de la nación en Hispanoamérica (Bonn: Inter Nationes, 1984). See also Severo Martínez Peláez, La patria del criollo (Guatemala City: Editorial Universitaria, 1973).
[24] Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991).
[25] E. Bradford Burns, The Poverty of Progress (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981).
[26] Carl J. Solberg, Immigration and Nationalism: Argentina and Chile, 1890-1914 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970).
[27] Adolfo Garretón, La municipalidad colonial, desde su fundación hasta el gobierno de J. Láriz (Buenos Aires: J. Menéndez, 1933) Juan Agustín Garela, La ciudad indiana: Buenos Aires desde 1600 hasta mediados del siglo XVIII (Buenos Aires: Estrada, n.d.); Roberto Levillier, Les origines argentines: la formation d’un grand peuple (Paris: Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1912); José Ingenieros, La formación de una raza argentina, in volume 4 of his Obras Completas (Buenos Aires: Mar Océano, 1961).
[28] Earl T. Glauert, “Ricardo Rojas and the Emergence of Argentine Cultural Nationalism,” Hispanic American Historical Review 43:1 (1963), 1-13.
[29] Hans Vogel, “Fiestas patrias y nuevas lealtades en Buenos Aires,” Todo es Historia 287 (1991), 42-50.
[30] Hans Vogel, “New Citizens for a New Nation: Naturalization in Early Independent Argentina,” Hispanic American Historical Review 71:1 (1991), 107-131.
[31] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTMpxFRyFbg
[32] Martin van Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
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Zalenski must be asking the same thing…is there a way out?
A picture is worth a thousand words and Zalenski on the stage alone at Vilnius -as if he had the Pox- said it all.
Its time to cut a deal with Russia Zalenski to save what is saveable namely Ukraine lives, that deal might include a fake breakthrough on the battlefield so Nato will pour in more weapons to increase their humiliation when they are handed to the Russians.
That picture shows these leaders for what they are, Vapid empty shells of human beings which the Western population have allowed to represent them?
LOL
Important topic and some great points in this article … quite disappointing squib of an ending conclusion tho, seems the author doesn’t know the answer either
Especially good is the author’s point that much of european national identity is itself an artificial, man-made concoction, tho a more successful one than ‘civic nationalisms’, because classic nationalism was still grounded in tribal emotions
People are by nature quite tribal, except somewhat for whites, who as often noted, have an exploitable ‘universalism’ bug in the mental hardware, now being much abused
You can see in the EU that tribalism even amongst Europeans in some ways is getting worse, tho more covert … the hundreds of thousands of dead in Ukraine are partly a function of Western Europeans being callous racists about killing Slavs, for example
The ‘leftism’ we mostly see today is the Trotskyite ‘anti-racist’ kind, but it’s worth noting that Stalin for all his faults, was an ‘organicist’ communist who believed ethnicity, tribalism etc was quite real, as were gender differences, and needed to be maintained. So Stalin re-installed a quasi-patriarchy, sponsored preserving local languages, and had USSR ‘internal passports’ in part to keep ethnic groups from large-scale invasion of each other’s turf and being de-stabilising.
And it seems Latin America proves that common language isn’t enough, there’s little desire to merge all those Spanish-speaking countries, despite much else in common as well.
On the impulse to tribalism in some form, interesting old Arab saying –
me and my brothers against my father
me and my family against the rest of the clan
me and the clan against the nation
me and the nation against the other nations
me and the Muslim ummah against the rest of the world
In fact, no “times” lie ahead of us and the End Times are at hand. The game of evil vs. good will soon find its conclusion in the most stupendous sight ever witnessed by Man:
https://www.academia.edu/74111120/The_Last_Act_Red_Alert_
To read the article (which is much shorter than the one above), simply SCROLL DOWN; no sign-in is necessary. Thanks.
It’s exactly for comments like these that TUR needs to add a WTF? in the response options.
The longer a people occupies a land, the greater the number of relatives each person has among his countrymen. That kinship and the language and culture they share makes a nation. Allowing in large numbers of aliens who will never be kin dilutes the feeling of kinship and dissolves the family feeling that holds a nation together. The Scotswoman and her family next door are part of the nation, the Laotians on the other side are not.
That’s a photo of the man (rightly) standing behind his wife as she bonds with another woman. Nothing more.
Putin is the one who needs to cut a deal. I suggest you diversify your news sources. Here’s a couple of suggestions:
https://english.nv.ua/
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
Race war would serve as a new founding myth. Us against them, good against evil, statues of that Brevik fellow from Sweden. Look at Israel.
-Discard
the rat doesn’t look very comfortable with his wife’s “bonding” with another woman. to tell the truth, he has that et tu, look on his bedraggled face, as his wife seeks a new future. women can be like that, when the shit hits the fan, she’ll head west and become a lesbian, in an effort to rebrand herself and to try to wash the stench of death, from her half of the grifted billions.
The introduction of Cluster munitions is no accident, what is the U.S controlled NATO game plan now?
Why Ukraine? Well look at what Ukraine does, it feeds the world, what has been happening around the world in the last few years in particular, there has been mass slaughter of food animals, the burning down of barns killing huge amounts of produce, a scamdemic that saw a large amount of production curtailed, the other day another large fire took out a large powdered milk storage facility…another mistake? Not on your life.
These scum are going to starve us in into submission and into being soldiers for their next great war, the Ukraine war is a necessary war because it takes out a huge food source, and cluster munitions will make sure of that.
There was a story a few years ago about the U.S army and government storing large amounts of resources, this is a planned cull of the worlds population, multiculturalism has stored a representative of each nation into the West, these are the seeds to reseed the world after the coming conflagration, this has been in the planning for a long time and hidden well with diversionary tactics but its clear now what is happening.
Get them before they get us?
Haxo will make it simple for you,
after all the wordspray:
either Whites
will exterminate the Jews
and their hirelings,
or the Jews and their hirelings
will complete the ongoing extermination of Whites.
How much idiocy can be posted on Unz? Why not have an editor who checks for egregious idiocy and whites it out.
I confess I don’t know is climate change is real or not, I suspect that it is, but maybe not. But I’m pretty sure that the many scientists who do think it is real exist (I’ll google) and are not lunatics. First hit …. https://dividedwefall.org/political-pen-pals-climate-change-scientist-vs-skeptic/
NASA, Lockheed (one of my old employers), etc., are all lunatics? No.
I think I’d have to invest a lot of effort to come to my own opinion on whether or not climate change is real based on evidence (rather than authority) and I’m disinclined to do it.
But reading idiotic statements like the author’s is off-putting. Is he capable of thinking or does he form his opinions by reading headlines?
Stupid conclusion. Argentina from 1880 – 1930 received mostly Italian immigrants — and some German and some Polish and Jews and a few other European nationalities, but mostly Italians. Since the majority of the population was already of Spanish origin (well, that and mestizos), and the culture was in many ways Southern European, they were not that different and ended up integrating well. (Even if Argentina is and always was a political and economic chaos, but for other reasons).
In the last decades Argentina received mostly mestizos from Bolivia and Peru, which mostly only integrate in the underclass and increase general squalor and poverty. So different people migrating bring different results. That much is obvious, so talking about “foreigners” in general is stupid.
Europe is receiving mostly non-Europeans, Arabs and Blacks, who also mostly integrate in a new underclass, or create their own ghettos and neighbourhood. It’s like trying to mix oil and water. It ain’t gonna work. And those who are promoting this massive immigration know it. The objective is destruction and white ethnocide.
No way out for most Hegemony Member Nation-States.
“Camp of the Saints” and “Marching Morons” sweeping over ZATOceania-€U.
Murica”OpenBordered” now to where 2.7 Million Illegal Migrants entered. Add those who entered Legally and those who were (Anchor) Birthed, we’ve roughly 3.7~4.0 Million new Murican Residents in 2022.
Murica turning DNC_Blue, Bilingual, and Majority Hispanic. With MEX President Obrador calling for an “OpenBorders Americas Zone” of sorts – there may be significant changes in the Western Hemisphere.
The Hegemon-Plutarchy in WashingtonDC may spin that into a Hemispherical “Americas Union” with WashingtonDC in Charge.
Doing nothing in Murica will result in you and/or your descendants’ assimilation to these trends.
Non-Masonic/Catholic/Zionist/Jewish Whites+East_Asians in Murica who don’t wish to assimilate may wish to pursue Emigration or Secession Options.
Kind regards,
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And we can just bet those newly-non-abandoned villages will have walls around them and rules to keep out what happened to the cities. Or they’ll be just like Americans who ran to the suburbs and found the city was sending all the trash right after them.
THE WAY AHEAD —
The nation-state is dead, the tribe and clan and occasional fortified city is the future.
When the USA busts up it might work out. I do not think it will be the end of the world.
IF nations states are artificial Un/necessary made up concepts then whats the point of ISRAEL? a Jewish Nation/state/? Zionisms isdead then??
Let me spell it out for you: ‘J’ ‘e’ ‘w’ ‘s’. Take away their power and everything returns back to normal in no time.
oogity
Spain is also the land of abandoned villages.
Young people left the villages in the 1960’s (coastal tourism/ construction) and the old people died. The government has tried to develop rural tourism but it remains a niche market. Tourists (inc. Spanish tourists) want the Mediterranean with its entertainment and fresh air relative to the parched interior. All penury is doing is driving more people to where the economic opportunities are. The coasts and the big cities (Spain characterized as a doughnut with a ring of economic opportunity – the coasts – and an empty centre – apart from Madrid).
Not myself being Spanish, but interested in Spanish affairs and having spent most of my life here, my (possibly erroneous) thoughts on nationality would be:
– The importance of the Spanish language as a mother tongue. Interestingly this includes the many South Americans in Spain. Ethnic European South Americans (for example Argentines) seem to get complete acceptance. South American Indians get accepted to a lesser extent – but still OK (for example Columbians) . Spaniards generally don’t want to be confused with Latinos (native Indian South Americans) but there’s a general acceptance and affinity. Americans confuse Spaniards with Latinos all the time.
– This bond to South America is stronger that the bond to non-Spanish speaking Northern Europe. Spaniards happily interact with Northern Europeans but they’re not part of the family. They have to speak extremely good Spanish for true acceptance – which is quite rare.
– The many North Africans living in Spain don’t have Spanish as their first language and have little interaction with the Spanish. That’s apart from their heavy use of schools and the social security system. They’re a community apart, and subsequent generations remain apart – which seems to mirror the situation in France. It suggests the same potential for trouble as in France. It’s the result of years of the same leftist, activist, multiculturalist governments turning a blind eye to mass immigration.
– Spanish is a deep ethnicity with strong awareness, impossible to confuse with the French, Germans or even Italians. Issues here are with the Catalans and the Basques who have their own historic trajectory. Their separateness within Spain is currently handled through Autonomy ( a considerable right to independent decision making) which isn’t fully worked out.
– Spain (at least the main political parties – PP and the Socialists) do follow NWO rules emanating from Davos and Brussels and are fully on board with the Multicultural/ LGBT/ Neocon package. Spain also has a fully captured MSM. There’s an element of trickery here. Integration of Spain into the EU (1960’s) brought tremendous development to the country – with the EU being worshipped and EU legislation automatically adopted. However, when the EU subsequently morphed into its current Counter-Cultural mode it was hidden by the shell of the same venerable EU institutions.
– There’s a growing rejection of LGBT (particularly compulsory education in schools) and immigrant trouble (violence) reflected in the rise of the VOX party (totally demonized by the Spanish MSM). It’s actually a middle of the road Spain First party similar to Germany’s AfD. It’ll be interesting to see how they fare in today’s national election (23rd July 2023). Polls show them at 13%. The AfD gets 19% so they have some catching up to do.
It will likely be significantly smaller and more easily manageable national states, with historical pedigrees to fall back on. In the European context, here is my Top-10 list of such smaller entities, “new and improved”, gaining full independence and sovereignty.
Certain notable regions within three European nation-states that were formed relatively late, in the 19th century, whose populations have preserved a distinctive sense of collective identity, with a net economic output that would make them even stronger as independent entities than is the case now, by not having to subsidize poorer regions, would be primary candidates to break away peacefully: Flanders, Upper Bavaria, Swabia (the southern parts of contemporary Baden-Württemberg plus the southwestern Bavarian region), Lombardy, Veneto.
With these five regions having set a precedent, five additional, yet somewhat less affluent regions, whose populations have proud and independent minded attitudes, could also join in: Saxony, Euskadi (Basque region of Spain), Catalonia (including the Balearic Islands and Andorra, plus parts of the Valencia region), Sicily, Corsica.
Attaining an enhanced sense of self-identity, these administrative entities would become more resilient to centralized tendencies toward intentional societal self-destruction, imposed by globalist efforts at homogenization. Over time, other distinctive regions could also consolidate, based on linguistic, religious and topographical criteria, such as larger river basins. During this process, Scotland would also eventually manage to separate from England. Of course, Russia would not be spared a similar development and would consequently re-emerge much smaller than is the case now.
They may not much like each other but they’re happy to build links to Spain. This shouldn’t be happening. Isn’t Spain the exploitative ex-colonial power against which they fought wars of national liberation?
Anyway it’s happening, and there’s a lot of positive integration going on in both ways.
Human development is a simple problem of logic, the more the personal fortune of a fortunate few grows, in the same way increases the amount they parasitize from the social work of the billions of less fortunate human beings.
And that cannot be resolved with the usual genocide, murdering a large part of seven billion human beings for the greed of a few lucky ones seems to be too much.
Totally absolutely brilliant article.
I particularly like this quote.
The same goes for all those climate lunatics out there, the people who actually believe that by their
actions they can stop heliogenic climate change.
I’m inclined to agree with you. It seems that only white immigration around Europe for example can work in the West. Moreover, it’d be tenous at best. There are the Germanics, the Slavs and the Latins making up the majority of Europe. Nota Bene: there are other outliers like Hungarians, Basque, etc. Mixing within those groups is easier than with the others. I’m an American of primarily Scandinavian descent and have spent 8+ years in Russia. I love this country and respect its history and cultural heritage, however I can never fully be a Russian or Slav for that matter due to my mentality being closer to that of a Germanic person. I have learned a lot from them and am very glad for my sojourn in their great nation. That being said, I think we Germanics should be good neighbors and cooperative with our Slavic neighbors. I’ve recently dug into my Scandinavian roots and all things Norwegian and Germanic, which filled a hole in my soul I didn’t know I had. On the case of Argentina any success they had was based on immigrants of Latin (Spanish and Italian) descent working together to build that nation. Honestly, it’s unlikely that Europe will fracture into a million pieces, but into several. Germanics, Latins and Slavs.
A primary tentpole of this takeover is to dumb us down to the lowest common denominator. Experienced and educated critical thinkers make for poor slaves. Old ways of thinking have to be eradicated. Division, demoralization, and the destruction of education are three key tools in achieving total domination.
Bread (UBI/EBT/SNAP), circuses (media/elections), overbearing propaganda (news), fabricating and dramatically magnifying our differences (5th generation warfare), radicalizing the populace (politics), invasion by fighting age third worlders, the demolition of our food production infrastructure, and the manufactured bankruptcy and extinction of the dollar, are all being brought to bear against us:
By weaponizing woke ideology, a powerful group is destroying the modern world by poisoning the wells we all share of comradery, fellowship, and family – they are doing everything they can to decimate the ties that bind us together and to destroy every trace of common ground and brotherhood between us.
Values we all once shared that were intended to do the most good for the most people are being maliciously torched in the name of discord and disunity by utilizing a reality denying, mentally ill, family destroying, child warping, depraved ideology.
The globablists’ have successfully utilized the Red vs Blue, East vs West, Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed, Boy vs Girl dichotomies to exploit our innate tribal nature, and in doing so are dividing and conquering us. This ‘us-vs-them’ separation makes us easy to control and direct with simple angry thoughts about “the enemy” who isn’t really our enemy – while blinding us to the actual enemy behind the curtain pulling the puppet strings. If we could collectively recognize this for what it is the NWO wouldn’t stand a chance.
Most people will not act to secure their future, so long as they feel they have an advocate fighting for them in the public or political arenas. This is why Republican vs Democrat equals divide and conquer. The human mind is binary. Our thought process can often be boiled down into terms (often ultimatums) of – this or that – and our adversaries understand – very well – the art of this war.
They know that politicization is so effective at manipulating us because most emotionally connect their personal belief system to the belief system of their political party, and so then any attack on their party – legitimate or otherwise – is interpreted by their brain as an attack on themselves. Reason and logic then jump out the nearest window as raw emotion takes the helm, thus making them even more susceptible to the predatory controlling influences.
United we will stand, divided we will fall, our adversaries know this which is why we are being mercilessly divided.
More info on ESG and the manufactured demolition of the west here: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/why-all-these-brands-ab-inbev-target
Thanks for this excellent article. I always looked at politics as a movement of very neurotic people who are suffering from obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD). OCD in regards to an uncontrollable addiction to controlling other humans, combined with a neurotic sense of seriously self entitled superiority. Mental disorders, then, appear to be the red thread in society and the ties that bind. Mentally deranged people attract the same. And so, mental disorders will progressively infect more people and eventually society as a whole. In terms of the stormtroopers in service of destroying nation states, it’s true, but do not forget ‘space the final frontier’. More motivating than destroying nation states is the OCD re. the Fourth Industrial Revolution – which includes the desire to conquer space. The real cause behind the climate anomalies is the technology that is being used to clear the way for space endeavours. This includes the use of electromagnetic assaults on the firmament. Yes, I know it sounds like ‘conspiracy,’ but you can do your own research on this topic – in particular the use of EMF on the weather systems all over the world, the results of which are visible in the sky, as a clue. Is there a way out… imo, no. The chaos and depravity will continue to bear fruit, behind your back, until there is no return anymore. And the owners of the chaos and depravity will have had their kicks. See Geoengineering and consent for more: https://zonderreden.substack.com
How unexpected that you wish for the atomisation of European nations.
PS: Just kidding of course, we all know what you wish for.
Finally some elected officials are making some noise over the ” Biden corruption ” which is very long overdue!!
Better ” late than never “!! Is the United States government going to survive at all?? I ask this question because the ” corruption ” has taken completely over!! No one gets to face accountability except ” Donald Trump “!! The rug is not big enough to hide the Biden corruption forever; are they going to destroy what is left of this country?? Is Integrity Dead???
There are essentially two models for nationhood: “Greek” & “Roman”. “Greek” is an ethno-nationalist (common ancestry, language, customs, frequently a religion, a sense of common identity & destiny). “Roman” is the progenitor of “civic nationalism” – you belong to a nation if you are a citizen, never mind your origin or race or culture. In reality, actual ancient Romans never developed anything from it.“Greek” model became the template for Central & East European nations (Germans, Czechs, Poles, Croats, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians,…) & it was later called ethnic nationalism. “Roman” model was dominant in Western Europe (France, Britain, Spain,…), named “civic nationalism”.
But “civic nationalism” is a conundrum. Essentially, more powerful ethnies in those countries used it as a fig-leaf to assimilate other peoples (linguistically, culturally) into their ethnic corpus, while pretending to remain “fair” & non-imposing. In France, French assimilated groups like Bretons or Gascons, and even clearly different German-speaking Alsatians; in Britain, English tried, with more or less success, to assimilate Welsh & Scots & others; in Spain, Castilians to absorb Catalans, Basques, Valencians, ..).So, in all cases of “civic nationalism” it is: a) a mask for more powerful ethnic nation to absorb phenotypically- unlike linguistically-culturally- not much different “others”, b) there was not, anytime, an intent to absorb different races (real race-mixing on a significant scale was not technically possible, or in rare cases, it was shunned) or to live side by side with really different cultures (Muslims, Hindus,…). Jews were generally allowed to stay, but they were put into ghettos. They themselves did not want to become a part of, say, French or Spanish “nation”, nor were locals- mostly- enthusiastic about that. Any real nation is an extended family with common identity & historical culture.
In the New World, the national question is something like a puzzle. Are there nations at all? In my view, the Canadian nation never existed; the American nation did exist from, say, the 1790s to the 1970s & it was composed of English-speaking whites belonging to Western culture (forms of Christianity & marginally diluted Judaism) & cherishing specifically American national traditions (founding fathers etc). Freed blacks never belonged to the American nation, but they had been an American national minority; various Indian peoples living in reservations were not “American” in any national sense.
When we come to the Hispanic & Portuguese Americas, we see that Bolivar tried to unite all Hispanophone countries in a “nation”, but he failed. Are Mexicans a nation? I don’t know, perhaps they are a Mestizo nation ruled by light Mestizo/white elite & common culture (language, religion, mostly post-Conquistador history). Peruvians? Bolivians? No, there are too many Indians speaking various non-European languages. Brazilians? Yes & no. They may be considered to be a stratified people where whites clearly dominate & they are defined by their language, different from Spanish (and in a few pockets of Dutch and English) by which they are surrounded.
So, “proposition nation” of citizenship has never existed & will never exist. In the world of mass migrations, anti-white advocates try to impose this ludicrous concept on “receiving” countries, which are almost 100% white European in history, culture or identity. We all know that there is no chance that anyone rational could consider a black to belong to the Swedish people, even if he speaks only Swedish & lives in that historical-geographic-cultural space; nor would we think that a bunch of whites of, say, Slovak origin could be considered Koreans, even if they totally assimilate into Korean culture.
And numbers are crucial: just let, say, 100 million Chinese in Russia & let them assimilate, become Orthodox & speak only Russian as their national language. Would Evgeny Hungovich Pingpongovsky be a Russian, just like the rest- and those Pingpongovskies would constitute 40% of the country?
I think any rational person knows the answer.
True, organic extended family does not include other races, religions & cultures.
Exact👌
Right
Good idea👍👌
When the cash stops flowing the women get going.
Trust Ukraine Nazi and Anglo-saxon propaganda? Yeah, right.
A way out of what? America cannot be saved because it is already lost and it is no longer our country. We are on the outside looking in. What is there to be saved? You already have a country that is about 50% non-White whose institutions are run by Jewish supremacists that are intent on destroying White people. Our demographics cannot be fixed unless we can somehow remove a substantial portion of the current population.
Not sure what I just read, but I know it has no application for the mess we are in today.
Zelensky doesn’t give a shit. He’s got a nice flat in London or Tel Aviv when this is all over.
This whole idea that the pictures show how upset he is over getting screwed implies that he cares about Ukrainians. He doesn’t. Like the rulers of Russia and the US, he’s a jew who only cares about jews. If anything, he’s happy that Ukrainians are getting killed because he knows he’s got a fat payout when the job is done. He will never face justice, he’ll be sipping champagne on the beach laughing with Igor Kolomoisky about the husk of the nation he left behind.
First order is to understand the difference between nation state and oligarchical empire as regard human dignity…the dignity to not be slave or sharecropper…
This presentation “FIREWALL: Defense of the Nation State” is a very important to gain a greater understanding of the role of the nation-state for human dignity and survival!
https://www.larouchepac.com/file/1085
What an idiotic statement.
As usual I just read this last part, which avoided wasting my time.
Argentina has been lost for a few decades now because it’s getting browner and browner, and the US is crumbling for the same reasons from a few decades longer of demographic annihilation.
Is this idiot living in the 1950’s? Even if he is, he’d see that the seeds to the US’s and even Argentina’s ‘altered state’ began back then culminating with the Great Society programs of that criminal LBJ and the equally criminal American congress in the mid 60’s.
just a coincidence?
pride week july 20-30 halifax
monsoon rain flooding july 22
do not be deceived whatsoever a man sows so shall he reap? hebrews 7
climate change the work of God?
Without the white setting the bad examples around the world since the day Columbus set sail to the new discovered continent, those anti-white will have no idea on how to perform those horrible and disgusting rampage to pillage, destroy, rape and kill their fellow white citizens. The author should not be so bitter and resentful when the perpetrators are on the receiving end of their own inventions.
Hey Joe, did you ever read my culling post. At least 2-2.5 billion non whites culled to balance out the planet. At least 500 million would be east Asians. But good news, blacks would be proportionately more. 😆👿
PS. I forgot to add the magic 6 Million ‘chosens’.👿
I live in south western Ontario Canada, and the weather here this summer has been very moderate so far.
We have had rain practically every week, which is somewhat unusual in July and August. Further, the daytime high temperatures this summer have rarely exceeded 25 or 26 degree centigrade, whereas in years gone by these temperatures would exceed 36 degrees C.
Maybe we just live in a charmed part of the world where we are spared the extremes of the world’s weather and environment.
As to weather reports from, say, the south western USA. I had the pleasure of driving through the Mojave desert late June 1969. My route was Salt Lake City to Las Vegas to Los Angeles. The day time temperature at that time was 115 deg. Fahrenheit. Very hot for my temperate background, but the very low humidity attendant with this heat made a wet towel around the neck quite effective cooling.
Consequently I take all these extreme weather reports with a healthy dose of salt.
There are no more de-facto nation states in Western/Central Europe (just de-jure)
Here is the Way Out for you Hansi, just follow the compatriots,
before the exits are fully closed (currently scheduled for 2024) :
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/157440/umfrage/auswanderung-aus-deutschland/
Good points , Spain and Hispanic America are united by a common language , religion and history . Spaniards feel at home in Hispanic America , as well as with US Hispanics . In Europe Spaniards feeel at home in Italy and Portugal , maybe in France , but not in the north of Europe , maybe deep inside we don`t like them and they don`t like us ,
( And catalan and basques are not that different from the rest of Spain , they are mixed with the rest of spaniards . I would say there are more differences between texans and north east yankees in the USA )
I tried like 4 times to read this and I just couldn’t get through it. Problem is, it reads like the college bumf I was indoctrinated with in my youth 150 years ago. Nation states was this catchy ideology. Then city states was briefly cool again. Now civilization states is the catchy ideology.
What’s the common thread? They’re all states. And nowadays the whole world concurs that states succeed or fail to the extent that they perform. Nation, civilization, city, yeah sure right, nobody gives a shit. Question is, this state you’re so proud of, Does it measure up?
What exactly that means is below:
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-listings
States bear duties and assume responsibility to gain sovereignty. The unifying principle is, This state does not fuck you over. We don’t have to get all touchy-feely with the culture shit.
Give your state those tests. All of NATO gets straight Fs. So we help it collapse, knock it over and rip it apart.
And then make a state that does not suck. Add whatever noun you want. That is how it works now.
It was a history of colonialism, exploitation and an imposed religion – but for some reason that doesn’t matter. Right now Spain and South American governments get along fine and want to build more links.
Latinos in the US are a little different. They don’t seem to get along with Anglos as well as they do with Spaniards in Spain. Also their immigration is weaponized by the Jewish activists running the United States. Same as they’re weaponizing Blacks. Without Jewish troublemaking everyone would probably get along a lot better – with no BLM movement and no open frontiers.
And it seems Latin America proves that common language isn’t enough, there’s little desire to merge all those Spanish-speaking countries, despite much else in common as well.
Yes , common language is not enough , but ……
Well , up to 1808 , when Napoleon invaded Spain , the Monarchia Hispanica was working very well : Peninsular Spain plus the 3 Viceroyalties of : New Spain ( Mèxico , including a good part of present USA ) , New Granada ( Great Colombia ) , and Rio de la Plata ( Great Argentina ) .
The Napoleonic french invaded Spain and Portugal in 1808 , they devastated Spain , and Portugal . In Spain out of some 12 million inhabitants the french killed some 500.000 military and civilians ( that is european ” progress” ) .
Although the french were finally expelled in 1814 , Spain was destroyed , and as a result Hispanic America crumbled . The English and Yankees profited to parasite hispanoamerican econonomies , occupied part of the New Spain Viceroyalty , and fostered endles coups ,revolutions and divisions in the subcontinent up to date , as we know . Even the french invaded Mèxico and Argentina in the XIX century and were defeated , and the English invaded Argentina a couple of times and were also defeated , but still occupy the Malvinas islands .
Spain still kept Cuba , Puerto Rico and The Philipines but in 1898 the USA did a false flag attack sinking her US Navy ship ” Maine ” in La Habana , and blamed Spain , declaring war to Spain . The yankees invaded and occupied the last provinces of the Spanish Empire .
The Earth’s climate is changing and has been doing so since times immorial. I’m sure humans have made it more so since the industrial revoloution but our role in this climate change has been miniscule.
This long running scam is being played by the elites to lead us to serfdom and take control.
The tools availabel to the elites at present to enslave us are extremely powerful and will make it much more difficult for us to overthrow them in the future.
Manmade climate change is a hoax and all our efforts will not make much of a difference.
it’s unfortunate and for me especially so given the huge amount of information on the topic of climate change within the Bible. Even Christ spoke on climate change but alas the ignorance is just so puzzling and that from of all places the very pulpits of our Churches? they’re actually buying into the same scientific arguments and completely ignoring everything taught in the scriptures and history. and the Bible even provides the solution to climate change!!!
what a failure of education we / I actually am witnessing?
“It was a history of colonialism, exploitation and an imposed religion ”
Come on , angloyankis always insulting , supremacists , that is what the angloyankis did in north america , english are colonialists , depredators , don`t blame the jews . The anglos are always racist , killed all the indians , grab everything , everywhere . Do not proyect .
Little numbers of spaniards could not conquer so much people ,so much land … since the beguining they mixed with the natives , Cortes married an aztec princess and made the fist mestizo . The spaniards brought many advances , and things , from Eurasia to the Americas , and from the Americas to Europe , like potatos , tomato etc …
Once a mexican thought me a very clear lesson about the ” spanish conquista ” that I will never forget . He told me , you spaniards , you think that you did the conquista of America ?? . No way , if you think so , how do you think that small numbers of soldiers , priests , colons , far away fron home , could overcome large numbers of natives , that maybe were not as advanced as the europeans , but that were not stupid , made great pyramids etc …
Listen , he said , the conquista of the Americas was made by the indians , and the independence of America was done by the Spanish , do you understand ??? . No , I dont understand , I said ,surprised . And he told me how Cortes was just an ally of tribes of natives , like the Tlaxcaltecas , that resisted the aztec dominance and finally defeated the aztecs with spanish help , and it was like that in all the continent , the same in Peru etc..
And how the independence of America was done by spaniards ?? I asked surprised , and he answered , wery easy , in the ” independence ” wars all the indians fought with Spain , for the King of Spain and religion , while liberal masonic descendants of spaniards ” criollos ” fought for independence in order to have a country for themselves ,out of greed , or horrified by the napoleonic invasion of Spain . many of them were traitors .
The mexican was right .
Well said. Purest biogarbage. Awful. They should be fed to dogs.
This U Essay is not a state – it’s a collection of rich fucks kicking the shit out of everyone else.
Pinch. Not dose. Are you in third grade?
[Even Christ spoke on climate]
Could you please quote the verse.
This article is like a rummage pile or garage sale. Not too much premium information here-actually very little-because it is all rehash, speculation, and hedging.
Go to Father Brother Nathaniel at realjewnews.com for some meat and high nutrition.
“Switzerland has three national languages, namely German, French and Italian.”
Per Britanica website …
Since 1938 Romansh has been a “national” language of Switzerland for cantonal, though not federal, purposes; a referendum in 1996, however, accorded it semiofficial status. Romansh occurs in two dialectal forms, Sursilvan (spoken on the western bank of the Rhine) and Sutsilvan (spoken on the eastern bank).
In practice it is primarily a spoken language among roughly fifty thousand (mainly older) mountain dwellers, so it is hardly worth mentioning, as the author did not bother to do. English is far more important in all of Switzerland than Rätoromanisch. There is only one major town (population no more than 2500) in Switzerland where a significant portion of the population (nearly half) still speaks it regularly: Scuol, in the lower Engadin Valley, from where the water ultimately flows into the Black Sea through the Inn and Danube rivers. I once went to the local bookstore there out of curiosity, to see how big the dictionary was. There was still no unanimity about how to spell certain words, so the written aspect of this language is still in development even though it is on its way to becoming extinct, as has already happened in other regions farther north, where it used to be spoken.
“A picture is worth a thousand words and Zalenski on the stage alone at Vilnius -as if he had the Pox- said it all.”
And that’s exactly what would happen if Jews finagled a state for themselves by displacing the ethno Ukrainians in Europe, which they’re trying hard with this concocted war in which the natives are dying or fleeing, leaving behind an empty place for the “Middle Easterners” of dubious kind.
The Transgender movement is just a sneaky way to sterilize the population!
“In fact, no “times” lie ahead of us and the End Times are at hand.”
It’s just like our Lord said, “The son of man cometh when huge numbers of people are expecting it.”
Earth’s climate has been changing for 4 billion years and the only people who deny it (besides young earth creationists) are climate cultists who want us to believe (wrongly) that earth’s climate was uniquely stable until man started interfering. And by no means is there any kind of scientific consensus behind man-made global warming theory.
The IPCC is a UN agency run at the top by UN political appointees without scientific qualifications, and I have observed comments from good scientists that most of the IPCC’s scientists are second rate.
NASA and NOAA are both politicized agencies and have been caught changing the old data multiple times to create a fake warming trend. Unfortunately, the MSM never blows the whistle on them.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. The whole climate cult is riddled with fraud and corruption.
I could easily go on about this for a couple of hours or more with information I recall just off the top of my head.
I remember one of those “hottest years evuh!” where 100% of the “excess” warming came from Africa, but there were no weather data collection points in Africa! It was all “imputed” warming! It is a bottomless pit of skullduggery.
If you want a serious theory of climate change, read the book _The Chilling Stars_ , or check out some of the “Tom Nelson” interviews on youtube for some good debunking. There are also some very smart scientists who comment on the world’s most widely followed climate blog:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/
The whole world is swirling around the drain of a massive dysgenic toilet, but we have to live somewhere, and America is far from the worst place in which to struggle for one’s existence.
Junglo-Saxons
It’s a pity that another language will be going the way of the dodo bird. I appreciate the detailed information.
“Destroy the family, destroy society.” Vladimir Lenin
Feb 23, 2021 DESTROY THE FAMILY, DESTROY SOCIETY – VLADIMIR LENIN
Darrin Robinson, one of the directors of the North Texas Minority Coalition, invited me to speak briefly on the issue of family destruction and our need to be court watchers.
Video Link
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this suits the US.
The United States is only held together by a disagreement over how to separate. In other words, we are united only because we are too conflicted to agree on how to rid ourselves of those opposing groups that we detest.
The commercial, industrial, political and ethnic interests that benefit from the chaos naturally want to preserve the Union, while a division would improve the lives of everyone else, including the rest of the world which would welcome the removal of the main threat to world peace and prosperity.
An ‘interesting old Arab saying..’, invented in Israel.
Yes ‘mike’ (another Big Brain Dunning-Krugerite) the Earth’s climate does always change. How do you geniuses come up with these staggering insights.
The problem is, how rapidly does the climate change and by how much? Currently it is changing faster than we know of from the geological record. At least ten times faster than during the PETM fifty-five million years ago. And it is a greater change as well. Moreover, and I hate to tell you, there were not eight billion humans on Earth, needing food, water and shelter, fifty-five million years ago. There were NONE.
There are NO ‘climate cultists’ who propose that the climate was ‘uniquely stable’ before humanity interfered. Perhaps you are not lying, but are confused. We did have the Holocene era of relative stability, that allowed humanity to increase in such huge numbers, that lasted ten thousand or so years, but that’s gone. And there IS a scientific consensus behind the theory of anthropogenic climate destabilisation, one of the strongest, too. There you probably are lying, or are just so brainwashed that it makes no difference.
The rest is the typically moronic, ignorant and mendacious ravings that we know so well from your type of low IQ, paranoid, Rightwing thug. I note that your, and your Thought Controllers’ rantings are becoming quite frantically hysterical, as the suddenly rapidly accelerating descent into climate Hell grabs everyone’s attention. Feeling threatened are you? God, I hope so!
You instantly remind me of the UK Rightist cretin who declared that the water was ‘cold’ when he went swimming early July. The rest of the world burning (or drowning) the record global average temperatures, the heat extremes in the USA, Southern Europe, North Africa, India, China etc, all simply ‘a little warm weather’. In any case, seeing as the north Atlantic has been at record high temperatures for months, the freak was probably simply lying, as they do.
Thus we go, driven by Rightwing sociopaths and psychopaths, merrily to our doom, in a ‘little warm weather’. I always understood, from a quite early age, that there were just too many greedy, vicious, violent, moronic individuals for humanity to survive very long. However, now that it is here, I am quite struck by just how moronic and evil the Right truly are.
Following up on my previous comment, only a few hours ago it became apparent that, contrary to prior poll predictions, the current prime minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, whose party came in second place in Sunday’s national elections, may nonetheless have an opportunity to form a new government by including smaller parties in a future coalition. This would presumably also include Basque and Catalan parties, whose leaders had previously stated, that holding independence referenda would be a condition for their participation in a possible new administration.
Though it is unclear if Sanchez is willing to go that far, the independence issues in these two northern regions of the country are back on the table, so it will be interesting to see what promises will emerge from upcoming negotiations. Since Sanchez’s party had strong support in these two regions, it would mean a loss for his movement if they were to eventually break away from Spain to become fully independent. Also, since the purchasing power of the population in these two regions surpasses the average of Spain by a significant margin, the rest of the country would lose some tax revenue.
And the solution is… “paying more carbon taxes” and switching to “wind turbines”. Man, you’re an idiot. Climate hysterics are the retarded ones. You’re the one who’s a tool of bankers and don’t even know it. “Climate change” is a fiction, a hoax. They’ve been pushing this crap at least since the 1970s. The world is still here. Oh, it’s hot in summer in Spain, Greece and Sicily, wow. That never happened before…
Well, I’m not. I don’t care if it gets a bit hotter. But the only “anthropogenic climate change” is by DARPA and the Chinese equivalent with their cloud bombarding and chem-trails. Not “CO2”.
Thirty years from now, I bet they will still talking about the coming climate apocalypse, and nothing will have happened, except hot summers in Spain with lots of people on the beach. (And speaking of beach, what happened to the “rising of the ocean levels”? LOL).
Zelenskyy does not care a single tiny bit about Ukrainian lives. He cares about what the Anglo-Zionist Empire wants him to to do.
‘The Nation State’ begins its own very slow suicide the very second it practices imperialism. That means that any pirating impulse that drives the ‘nation,’ any desire to conquer ‘other’ tribes sets in motion the Nation State dying by metamorphosis into an evil empire.
You cannot have the actual nation-state of merrie olde England when that nation state acts to imperialize everything in its sight lines. The ‘nation stater’ who also wants top be an imperialist always tries rot square the circle, but it cannot be done. Quite simply, when England cannot leave, says Scotland alone, England not merely begins destroying Scotland and Scottishness but also begins destroying what was most valuable about Englishness.
Imperialism is always an evil. It pollutes and utterly ruins even the most successful imperialists. Anglo-Zionism is raw evil not just because of the Zionist part, but because of Anglo-Saxon imperialism.
Race-ism is the most beautiful thing.
When white people believe in their own race, they have wonderful nations.
When they reject their own racial identity, they face hell on earth.
Apparently you are. In this context the two words have a very similar meaning.
I certainly agree with your last paragraph!
However, your kind of people use Transference and Projection to blame the world’s ills on those that are least responsible for the cesspool the western world is turning into.
“Yes ‘mike’ (another Big Brain Dunning-Krugerite)”
Dunning-Kruger doesn’t replicate, so it’s a failed hypothesis.
“the Earth’s climate does always change. How do you geniuses come up with these staggering insights.”
It only staggers minds such as yours.
“The problem is, how rapidly does the climate change and by how much? Currently it is changing faster than we know of from the geological record.”
No, it’s NOT, 100% not. Stop mindlessly regurgitating activist talking points and do your homework.
“And it is a greater change as well.”
Not just wrong, but so absurdly wrong it is laughable.
And the PETM was due to an astronomical cycle that repeats every 62 million years (and always causes a mass extinction that shows up in the geological record). We’ve got several million years to go until the next one.
“There are NO ‘climate cultists’ who propose that the climate was ‘uniquely stable’ before humanity interfered.”
YES, THERE ARE. They call it “equilibrium theory.” Homework, my friend, homework! If you are going to be a faithful Climate Cultist, you need to learn the doctrines!
“We did have the Holocene era of relative stability, that allowed humanity to increase in such huge numbers, that lasted ten thousand or so years, but that’s gone.”
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1. It’s not gone. We’ve got about 1500 years roughly until we get to a point in the obliquity cycle that will initiate the next glacial inception. Then it will be gone. AND…
2. Interglacials are only an “era of relative stability” compared to ice ages (or epochs or whatever term you wish to use for these longer and cooler intervals), when the weather becomes far less stable and storms more intense as a result of the increased temperature differential (not from DECREASED differentials as IPCC computer modelers say, but from INCREASED differentials!) between the tropics and the much coolers areas outside the tropics–a phenomenon that is well understood by mainstream meteorology because the same thing happens on a much more modest scale every interglacial winter. HOWEVER…
There is nonetheless a well documented history of extreme weather events even during our interglacial. Not so extreme as during glacial epochs, but certainly extreme enough that guys like you with apparently no familiarity with the history of interglacial weather would be screaming, “The sky is falling!”
“And there IS a scientific consensus behind the theory of anthropogenic climate destabilisation”
Ha, hah!!! You have been reading too many talking points! Yes, the activists have been telling us that since the 1990s, but it was not true then and it is not true now. Get out of your bubble if you want to be be taken seriously. At least try to explain why you believe that Jan Veizer, Nir Shaviv, and Henrik Svensmark are wrong. And a few tens of thousands of other scientists.
“as the suddenly rapidly accelerating descent into climate Hell grabs everyone’s attention.”
OMG, now I know the problem. You’re 19! You have to be! Someone my age can remember enough severe weather events to look at today’s weather events and yawn because they’re perfectly normal. And if you read more history, you would realize how darned lucky we are that we have not lived through anything like some of those previous climate variations during the last 10,000 years.
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations
collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
– Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme, and long time advocate for one world government
“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.”
– Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC
“We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination…
So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and
make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right
balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being
both.”
– Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”
– Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace
“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming
is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental
policy.”
– Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change provides
the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
– Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment
“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the
possibility of a catastrophe.”
– Emeritus Professor Daniel Botkin
“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million
worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure, and see wilderness, with its full
complement of species, returning throughout the world.”
– Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
“It’s all about global governance.”
– Al Gore, Jr., washed up politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner for his dishonest propaganda film, “An Inconvenient Truth”
You’re in a cult, my friend. The Climate Cult.
“Thirty years from now, I bet they will still talking about the coming climate apocalypse, and nothing will have happened”
Well, why not? After all, they were warning us of the imminent climate apocalypse 30 years ago, and the only thing that has happened since then is that the climate has gotten a little bit cooler after the warmer years in the late 1990s. I think the only thing that MIGHT shut them up is a catastrophic cooling event (and catastrophic would be a drop of -1 degree Celsius–we know from history that our food systems and infrastructure do not cope well with the effects of even a slight cooling!).
But even that might not silence them. Twenty years ago they realized that “global warming” was not scaring people enough, and was even becoming a subject of mockery sometimes, so they briefly floated “the Great Warming,” but that went over like a lead balloon (maybe it sounded too much like “the Great Pumpkin” from the Charlie Brown Halloween cartoon). So then they switched to “climate change.” Since the climate is always changing in one way or another, they can now say “We told you so!” no matter what happens. Like astrology, it becomes impossible to prove them wrong because there are a jillion ways you can interpret those horoscopes to explain anything.
Average temperatures only exist because some decades are above average and some decades are below average. The warm weather in the late 20th century (which coincided with the most active sun we have had in 8000 years according to astronomers–that is, the most active sun since the Holocene Thermal Maximum) will eventually be balanced by a period of cooler weather.
BTW, the late George Kukla, who was a colleague of Reid “father of climatology” Bryson, said in his later years that, prior to the end of previous interglacials, such as the Eemian (the one we know best other than our own), there were one to three warming episodes similar in duration and magnitude to the late 20th century warm spell. During the 1970s, a decade of cooler and more volatile weather than man had lived through in quite a while (and also a decade with a weak solar cycle), Bryson and Kukla got some attention in the mainstream media for warning that the climate was likely on a long term trend of cooler and more volatile weather as we gradually approached the inception of the next ice age (or glacial inception if you want the technical term).
They were not fanatics like Stephen Schneider who was calling for a full scale ice age to descend suddenly upon us in 50 years from air pollution shading out the sun if we did not repent of our evil industrial ways. Schneider attended a private meeting with some activists in 1976 and came out having done a 180–now he was warning us of catastrophic global warming! But Bryson and Kukla stuck to their guns all through the later global warming hysteria, fighting the good fight until each reposed at a ripe old age, not long ago in fact. As geologists, they understood earth history. The greenhouse gasses we emit from burning fossil fuels are trivial in the big scheme of things and within 2000 years–a geological blink of an eye–our descendants will be struggling to survive the next ice age.
Socialist economist Robert Heilbroner wrote a book published in 1950 called _The Human Prospect_. (Most economists are idiots, by the way, who don’t understand why perpetual motion machines are impossible, because that is what their econometric models are–blueprints for a perpetual motion machine.) There was a brief passage in there, a page or two, where Heilbroner talked about using the threat of overheating the earth from industrial emissions to justify the installment of a one world government, which he said would probably have to be a “revolutionary” government–code for a one party dictatorship similar to the USSR. Because the book was published in 1950, these ideas must have been circulating already in his left wing social circle in the 1940s.
(On an unrelated note, although I don’t recommend you waste your time as I once did reading _The Human Prospect_, Heilbroner nevertheless wrote an excellent little summary of modern economic thought called _The Worldly Philosophers_ which has been through multiple editions. I do recommend that book, even though it is a book about idiots who believe in perpetual motion machines. The machine will stop one day, just as our interglacial will eventually stop.)
“And he told me how Cortes was just an ally of tribes of natives , like the Tlaxcaltecas , that resisted the aztec dominance and finally defeated the aztecs with spanish help , and it was like that in all the continent , the same in Peru etc.”
Your Mexican informant was absolutely correct. The subject tribes welcomed the opportunity to cast off the yokes of the Aztecs and Inca/Quechuas. However, the Spanish double crossed them after the revolts were successful.
Yes, the Criollos got tired of being treated like second class citizens by the Spanish-born overlords, so they decided to make themselves rulers of Latin America. However, it did not quite work out as hoped. Too many Mestizos, Indios, Negros, and Mulattos for such a small class of Criollos to rule single handedly. The Criollos and the Spanish-born should have stuck together.
“And the solution is… “paying more carbon taxes” and switching to “wind turbines”. Man, you’re an idiot.”
https://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/why-wind-wont-work.pdf
https://energyskeptic.com/2019/wind/
https://energyskeptic.com/2015/wind-turbine-limits-to-growth/
https://energyskeptic.com/2018/germanys-wind-energy-mess-as-subsidies-expire-thousands-of-turbines-to-close/
https://energyskeptic.com/2021/material-and-other-limits-to-scaling-wind-up-to-24-gw-by-2050/
“The whites have become black: Historian Dr David Starkey on English/British people, particularly the lower classes, adopting black culture”
I don’t know what the average IQ of Black “Britons” is, but for Blacks in America it is 85 (the late Art Jensen wrote that the average of a large number of tests was 84 to be precise, but it is usually cited as 85.) With the White Anglo-Saxon mean pegged to 100, the bottom 15% of Whites overlap with the bottom 50% of Blacks, and the bottom 50% of Whites overlap with the bottom 85% of Blacks. When peoples of the same cognitive level mingle casually as equals, their customs can easily merge. In the next phase, their genes will merge as well. Soon you will have an Anglophone version of Brazil. Most White people today regard this as social and moral progress. When different peoples occupy the same local territory, it is very difficult to permanently avoid hybridization. You can have rules and customs to prevent it, but eventually the rules break down, or they are repeatedly circumvented, unless one group is culturally very, very remote from the other.
Apparently, the upper class does not care whether the classes they rule over are racially close or distant from themselves. At least they do not care until their subjects turn against them as in Venezuela or Cuba or South Africa, but then it is too late and they flee if they can. If I belonged to the ruling class, I would desperately want to reverse this trend, but they don’t seem to understand the long term consequences.
“The nation-state is dead, the tribe and clan and occasional fortified city is the future.”
The nation-state is dead IN THE WEST, but so far still alive and well in East Asia, and struggling to hang on in eastern Europe.
States are alive and well in the West, but they are no longer national (folk-based) in nature.
Some ethnic identities seem to be doing well in the West, especially when they are tied to race. Some religious identities are quite strong, especially in America, and these often become de facto ethnic identities.
North American Indians keep their tribal identities alive with the help of the US government.
Old fashioned tribal and clan identities that thrive on their own might redevelop if states and cities collapsed to a very low level of functionality.
The nature of the nation-state was always a bit vague. Was it based on loyalty to the same king, or blood or language or religion or an ideology? The folk-based state seemed to gather strong popular support in the 19th century, and this was closely related to language because genes tend to flow readily among speakers of a common tongue provided there are no geographic or religious impediments, or large and highly visible racial distances.
But with the defeat of National Socialism, the spread of Communism, and the triumph after WW2 of cultural determinism among the liberal democracies which was competing with egalitarian Communism for influence among the Third World states, most of them polyethnic, that were emerging from colonial rule (Third World originally just meant “non-aligned” and the fact that they were poor countries which usually had low IQ’s was simply incidental), everything that smacked of ethnic separatism, ethnic elitism, or ethnic superiority was not just ignored but renounced.
The ethno-state concept might hold on in some East Asian countries, and possibly even a few countries in eastern Europe. The dominant classes don’t want to encourage it in polyethnic states (which is most states) because it might lead to the break up of the states they rule. If the idea is going to survive in these states, it will have to be preserved by a minority with a strong ethnic identity, but that is not easy to do. But if one or more groups can do it, then one day their numbers might increase to the point where they can demand their own state, or possibly take over the state they live in and establish themselves as a privileged ruling caste.
But that is a long shot. Not, however, unimaginable. For centuries, the Jews said optimistically (although not expectantly), “Next year in Jerusalem!” Then one day a secular version of that vision managed to make it happen against long odds, but for that to happen, they had to preserve from 63 BC to AD 1948 a shared identity that was partly religious and partly ethnic. But clearly it can be done. Right now, though, I don’t see any group of people taking steps to permanently separate themselves in profound ways from the dominant culture. It would be a very interesting experiment however. “Retribalization.” Maybe it is an idea whose time will come.
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