"[T]he Fifth Political Theory sees metapolitics as closer to its goals than politics, but where we must innovate is in what we do and not merely what we think. Tribal praxis does not require political parties or the control of a government administration. It requires proximity and a sense of solidarity and cohesion."
"...in order to preserve their true identity White Europeans and White Americans must first resurrect their common cultural and racial awareness. [...] The common racial heredity of White Americans and Europeans appears as the only valid factor in the identity-building process. It cannot be changed at will. One can change his ideology, his language, his theology, his favorite football team and his geographic location. But a person cannot change his genetic heritage."
THE MEANING OF "ARISTOCRACY"
by Daniel Gurpide
The term ‘aristocracy’ derives from what the ancient Greeks called ‘areté’, the quest for excellence: the act of living up to one’s full potential.
This tragic urge to self-overcoming (transcendence) may be identified as the only way man and his presence in the world may be ennobled.
The original Indo-European speakers defined themselves as ‘Aryans’. At the geographical extremes of the great migration, we find Arya in Sanskrit and Indo-Iranian, and Aire in the language of the Irish Celts—out of which probably arose Eire: ‘Irish.’ The root *ar- signifies ‘noble.’
Since any 'aristocracy', if it wants to survive nowadays, should recover and transfigure the founding myths of Indo-European culture, when it comes to specifying its particular virtues, such features as the following might be listed: an eminently aristocratic conception of the human individual; the importance of honour (‘shame’ rather than ‘sin’); a heroic attitude towards life’s challenges; the exaltation and sacralisation of the world, beauty, the body, strength, and health; the rejection of any ‘worlds beyond’; and the inseparability of morality and aesthetics.
The highest value for an aristocrat would lie not in a form of ‘justice’ whose purpose is essentially interpreted as flattening the social order in the name of equality, but in all that may allow man to surpass himself. Since to consider the implications of life’s basic framework as unjust would be palpably absurd, such classic antitheses as noble vs. base, courageous vs. cowardly, honourable vs. dishonourable, beautiful vs. deformed, sick vs. healthy . . . come to replace the antitheses based on the concept of sin: good vs. evil, humble vs. vainglorious, submissive vs. proud, weak vs. arrogant, modest vs. boastful.
"If we are to become a minority in what is becoming someone else’s country, and we want to continue our Western heritage, we will need to embrace the ur-identity, that of the tribe."
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Titans are in Town consists of a novella and cultural essays by Dr. Tomislav Sunic. In the novella and his essays, Sunic discusses the state of Europeans in their postmodern wasteland. Confronted by endless interracial chaos, Europe longs for the return of Titans. Based on Friedrich Georg Jünger’s seminal 1944 work Die Titanen, the dormant Titans represent the only salvation for slumbering Europeans. The Titans’ unexpected return from mid-earth will start a resumption of Europe’s greatness.
Sunic’s protagonist Held in his novella struggles to maintain his dignity amidst a dystopian landscape in which consumerism, alien migrants and a never-ending struggle against nobility of character are unceasing. Confronted by decay all around him, he fervently hopes for the return of Europe’s Titans as foretold by the ancient Greeks. They will augur an age in which Indo-European values are restored and degeneracy forever extinguished. These final days will reassert European mythos as superior to Judeo-Christian values. Held is an Everyman for the Current Year and his struggles are reflected in the experiences of today’s Europeans.
Dr. Sunic also includes essays concerning the current degradation present within contemporary education. Intended for curious students, he discusses such topics as literature and politics along with tragedy and mythos in ancient Europe and the modern West. Titans are in Town also offers a guide on what to read in order to better understand Europe’s ancient patrimony of myths and lore. Excavating through the rubble of high culture, Dr. Sunic capably depicts pathways towards real learning for young Europeans.
BECOMING OURSELVES ANEW
By Daniel Gurpide
It is impossible to ‘bring back the Greeks,’ i.e., resuscitate the pre-Christian world. A genuine Aryanism can only be neo-pagan and post-Christian, rather than merely pagan or pre-Christian, and revolutionary.
‘Neo-pagan’ because with the ‘death of God,’ the old gods that Christianity maintained indirectly alive as promise and nostalgia of a diverse world, also died. They metamorphosed into a mythical and exemplary return to the origins that make a new beginning possible.
Revolutionary in the proper sense of the word (re-volution, from the Latin revolutus, revolvere: to turn over, to return) because we want to ‘turn over’ the existing system of values, ‘change the world,’ and return to or reproduce a moment that was. Our attitude towards our present world should be similar to the one adopted by the first Christians towards the Greco-Roman world.
Before the development of diachronic linguistics, the Aryans or Indo-Europeans did not exist! The term ‘Indo-European’ may be used to classify fossils or bio-macrophysical remnants, and so doing might be considered appropriate in that history is founded on human biology. Nevertheless, we know that an historical Indo-European entity has never existed: no record has been found of a people calling themselves ‘Indo-European,’ or demonstrating awareness of possessing that identity. This is scarcely surprising: an historical fact finds its reality only at the level of human consciousness. The Indo-European fact does not enter history, does not become historical agent, until it is ‘discovered’: that is, until human consciousness, bound to a determined epochal perspective—a consciousness and a perspective which are ours—conceives it as the past of its own present.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Indo-European fact becomes such only in us and through us. It is the projection of ourselves onto the past; at the same time it is the reinvented myth through which we project ourselves into the future.
Indo-European roots are the source, the past of which we may be future heirs—but only if we dare to become what we are. For us, indeed, an effective response to the challenges of modernity must re-produce, readapt, and reinvent it: the Indo-European adventure. It is for this reason that we project the Indo-European inheritance twice: as re-presentation of the past—and as imagination and re-creation of the future.
The re-appropriation of our deepest roots entails, in itself, the rediscovery, valorisation, and defence of our identity as Europeans. By exclusion we may decide what is ‘originally’ ours—in the sense of being created by us, and in harmony with our own perception of the world, our own psyche—and what does not belong to us, but has been incorporated at a later stage, lacking authenticity and genuineness. If the two inheritances of the European world, Christian-Semitic and Indo-European, reveal themselves as irreconcilable, it is for us—the current heirs—to decide which is our own, original, and originative, and which is not.
Furthermore, in a world which has become planetary—and where Europe, at risk of losing its identity and independence, is condemned to transform its centuries-old ethno-cultural unity into an organic whole—the rediscovery of our common roots, of our affiliation with the Indo-European past, has immense political significance as foundation myth of a community of destiny of European peoples. A synthesis—political, ideological, and philosophical—capable of safeguarding European civilisation—can be articulated only by returning to the primordial source: to the cornerstone of European humankind—the core of our human specificity. There, the archetypes of our psyche can be reactivated anew.
THE CONFLICT: ABRAHAMISM OR ARYANISM?
By Daniel Gurpide (excellent)
I think heroism boils down to the monomyth, as Curt usually reminds us: transcendence.
The possibility of transcendence for Abrahamism takes place in the world beyond, in meta-physics; for Aryanism, on the other hand, it takes place in this world, in meta-history, through the announcement of the the Nietzschean “Übermensch”.
In this sense, the hero's journey might require sometimes an enemy, which can also be oneself, or the representation that we choose to have of our own past, and more generally of the universe, in relation to the future, the destiny that we want to create.
Virgil stated, ‘We make our destiny by our choice of the Gods.’ Any decision on the future is always a decision on the past—on the origins—and vice versa.
The cultural battle today implies, as always, a conflict of genealogies: Abrahamism or Aryanism?
