Quick programming note - I turned on ability to become paid subs. There’s no plan to make the site paid anytime soon. This type of long form, or possibly podcasts, might, be something I work towards making paid down the line.
Let us acknowledge then that each one has just so much of happiness as he has of virtue and wisdom, and of virtuous and wise action. God is a witness to us of this truth, for he is happy and blessed, not by reason of any external good, but in himself and by reason of his own nature.
- Aristotle Politics Book VII Chapter 2
So. 27 posts down this road… And, all on it’s own, it seems to have developed both a style for each post, as well as series of posts on certain topics. While I am a fan of the style, and it is not going to change, I certainly understand some of the feedback that the posts are short, seem only part done, and don’t address things completely.
In part, this is deliberate. I’m not egotistical enough to think that I have all the answers and can give them to you.
Find them on your own - this substack is an advocate of creating small communities that will be the foundation of true human fulfillment when the Empire of the U.S.S.A. collapses. The means you have, and situations you find yourself in, will vary. I’m happy to discuss things in comments, but not in posts.
However, I do think that there is something to be said for tying the series together in longer form posts. This will be the first experiment in such. We’ll see if I get all the posts so far in one, or do it in multiples.
Slavering at Our Bits
Yet, in using this language, they really mean the natural slave of whom we spoke at first; for it must be admitted that some are slaves everywhere, others nowhere. The same principle applies to nobility.
- Aristotle Politics Book I chapter 6
The first series that I wrote here centered upon slavery and anger. I did this quiet deliberately, as nothing within our current domestic arena makes sense if you don’t understand the dynamics going on between the elite class and the slave class. And, to begin with, one must admit whether one is, in fact, a slave or not.
Aristotle defines a slave as anyone who works for another for their daily wage, the rationale being that if someone else tells you what to do the majority of your life, you have sold your labor and body into slavery in a very real way. This, obviously, is different from contractual slavery, but the mindset and manners that it engenders within the populace is much the same and allows elites, governors, and sovereign powers to control the masses much the same.
For those that work for themselves, such as merchants and small business owners, he calls them only one step up from slaves. This being because the client still gets to dictate much of their lives and schedules, and fostering much the same outcomes and habits.
The only Freemen in Aristotle’s mind are those that are land owners. The gentlemen farmers, who have enough excess to employ others and trade for what they don’t have. In modern terms, especially within our oligarchy, large businesses, maybe CEO’s and the wealthy that live debt free, those that aren’t ticket takers, senators, and politicians fall into this category. Oh, and just about every Boomer that owns a home outright and lives on retirement savings. If the boomers don’t like being lumped in the category, they can suck it for all I care. They’ve literally voted, whored themselves out, or accepted every worse decision possible for their progeny that could also selfishly enrich them. I really don’t care to hear their lament when they get caught up in any slave revolt.
These distinctions are what we see today. They’ve been named different things by lesser philosophers since Aristotle and Aquinas, such as the bourgeoise, the proletariat, etc. But they’re the same thing, they simply have taken slightly different accidental attributes to their fundamental forms.
And, as I stated in Slaving Away, the elites know all this. They’ve read Aristotle and likely only see his section on avoiding rebellion as a guide. They likely rather look to Plato’s Republic from what we’re seeing today - where he recommends ripping children away from parents, not letting them know who they are born to, stronger ties to state than family, and indoctrination by music / arts - as a guide.
Chilling stuff.
Enter the Fight
And do so on your own terms. Get angry now, and change your life now, before they change it for you. Anger is a virtue, and we have every right to be angry. I won’t reprint the graphics, but look at the post here for them.
Now get angry about it. Stop listening to the psyops. They’ve been going on since Starwars told us anger was the dark side for goodness sake.
Stop thinking our enemy is dumb. They’re not. That’s a psyops too. How demoralizing is it to be beaten by a dumb, stupid enemy and be helpless before them?
They’re not freaking dumb. They’re intelligent. They might use dumb people, but those in control are very smart, and have been doing this for awhile.
Entering the fight doesn’t mean actually fighting always and everywhere.
It means, first, defeating your own demons. Hunt down the wolves inside you first. You’re a danger to yourself if you can’t keep it together. If you have no self control and are a slave to your body, the enemy can always control you. If you’re a slave to your passions and mind (anger out of control, uncontrolled curiosity, other bad mental habits) you are unreliable. If you rely on drugs of any sort or a psychiatrist you’re able to be denied those things. You’re vulnerable. Why would anyone depend on you?
Then go hunting for other wolves. Help others with their problems. Be on the look out for those subverting your groups/community. Get with it - predators go where the prey is.
And, as you do so, you’ll form a pack.
You’ll build on success. You’ll join or take charge of a group of reliable men. The group will offer what the world can’t - honor, respect, and success within a tight knit community forged by trial and bonded by love. It will be real. It won’t be able to be broken. It will be the crown that
talked of and that our leaders fear. They’re out there, waiting. I’m sure that there are small communities forming right now, with little barons and soon to be dukes or princes waiting in the wings.And you’ll start to breath the free air, realizing that while you might still wear some shackles of slavery, you’ve actually started to stop acting like slaves. You’re fighting. Even if it doesn’t involve violence, and doing it legally, you’re resisting the Empire.
You’ll have a group of people that acknowledge the Civil War and WW3 started already. That it’s already hot and simply doesn’t involve bullets yet, but is instead for our souls. That blood is being spilt and it’s our children’s to surgery and our women’s to mercenary invaders.
Powers From on High
But to such legends as these, however they shall be regarded and judged, I shall, for my own part, attach no great importance.
Livy’s History of Rome
From here we stopped looking at slavery and classes - turning to look at both states as well as institutions.
First off we need to consider the spiritual side of things. We compared the founding mythos of the Greeks, Romans, and British to how they progressed.
That we, founded upon Equalitas, Libertas, and Fraternitas, have nothing to stop those from taking over our country. That is because as philosophies within enlightenment doctrine they have no principled boundaries, only ones of convenience and taste. When one throws in that we sacrifice to them, and the Invisible Hand of the Free Market as if they are gods and beings…
Well, upon examination they start acting like it. The free market acts like a being, so why wouldn’t it be? If we sacrifice every weekend to the god of war in large coliseums like football, let alone the military industrial complex, why should we be surprised about having neopagan actions and indoctrination? That we are willing to go along with pink jerseys, kneeling to flags, and all other kinds of nonsense?
And then, this being done in our temples to mars, it starts being done in our actual line troops. The marching in heels, the trannies infecting the rank and file, women in combat, etc.
Why, when our country is founded upon at least the first three - Equalitas, Libertas, and Fraternitas - just like the pagans of old, should we not expect these gods and philosophies to dictate how our nation is run?
Showing that things like this matter, we should ponder what might be the fate of a country founded on the idea of throwing off the authority of it’s rightful King over a relatively small amount of taxes in comparison to today. Oh, and much more highly represented than we currently are in a fake and gay Republic. We should ponder how our individual communities may be affected as the fake and gay Empire falls.
But, we have no mythos to bind us together of any worth as an Empire. While you may not agree with the morals of the ancient Mythos, they were epic, they involved gods and those touched by gods or born by them. Ours are shallow by comparison, and our fragmented populace is breaking under the burdens and hardships of the shallow mythos we have.
This matters because a people need to know that their leader gains his power from God. Contrary to
putting forward that there are two ideas, there really is only one - that all power comes from God in this life. Whether that power is given to a leader through a democratic vote, through birth, or by lot is immaterial - it is just an instrument or manner by which God’s providence is chosen.Therefore, if a people loose confidence in a leader and revolt, even if immorally such as the French Revolution, the leader has had his power to govern taken away from him by God’s providence. This gives culpability to both the leader’s ability and governance (Louis really was awful) as well as the people. Thus, we see that we as people, as well as our leaders, all matter as human beings in God’s plan and must strive to fulfill it.
Voids get filled
If we don’t fill voids, other beings will.
We see this, and looked at it specifically, in academia. My claim is that, as we looked at with regards to the state, institutions have gods (demons) involved within the daily running of them as well. A modern day university is nothing more than a four year Bacchanalia, a dedication to Aphrodite for those wanting an Mrs degree, and maybe a sacrifice to Moloch if an abortion is needed; depending on the individual. Oh, and with the modern plagiarism instead of real education and indoctrination to the SJW religion papering over the whole thing, we could go down a whole warren of rabbit trails on what the individual university is really a temple to.
If we don’t want that to happen, I would posit that we need Christendom. To fill that spiritual void with something Beautiful, Good, and True. Is that not what a University is supposed to be teaching anyways - things that are Beautiful, Good, and True?
Anyways, these spiritual things need to be examined because we need to move past the Enlightenment mentality of a material existence. If our society is making the same sacrifices as the pagans did, and getting the same outcomes as the pagans did, then we are likely neo-pagans. That is the argument put forth to those that doubt the above examination of the university. It is how we must examine all institutions and movements - from the Invisible Hand of the Free Market to Mars running the Military Industrial Complex. Someone, somewhere, likely runs things if it seems like there’s an intelligent being doing so and you can’t point to a human being doing it or the particular human seems too retarded to actually do what is being done.
If and when any of us take the helm of an organization, or have the ability to give input to one; we must be on guard against such subversion. Just because universities today are evil, does not make universities evil. Just because governments today are evil, does not make governments evil. We must get that out of our minds; and since we have no modern examples to draw upon, we must look to history and theory, hand in hand. This, together, will rule out anything post Enlightenment as the Enlightenment universally has rejected the ideas of what makes for The Good Life in favor for undisciplined, biased priors that we see playing out today to their logical ends all over the Western world.
Instead, we can look further back to the Middle Ages and Classical periods for inspiration, and begin training our minds and souls to accept authority and hierarchy as good things when justly done. We can look to end results, the telos, of all things. As Aristotle taught, all things act consistently for the end for which they exist. So, if something is acting in a consistent pattern, always assume it is guided towards that as it’s purpose, no matter what it has for its stated goals.
Sustainable Foundations
A social instinct is implanted in all men by nature, and yet he who first founded the state was the greatest of benefactors. For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with arms, meant to be used by intelligence and virtue, which he may use for the worst ends.
- Aristotle Politics Book I Chapter 3
From there, we turn to what someone can do in their own individual lives. The first thing that one must acknowledge is that if you don’t like where the country is going, get off the stupid donkey and stop looking like an ass. As we saw in that post, an unjust government is not a government properly speaking, but is more properly called a band of robbers or a mafia. So, stop giving the mafia all but what you absolutely have to. Stop paying the Dane any Danegeld more than what they ask for.
Realize that Libertas is a whore that you can’t afford, and that they can. You will always be outbid, because all that mafia money goes to paying her nightly wages. I know I keep banging on this drum that dollars are votes, but some people don’t seem to want to want to give up their capitalist commitments. They don’t understand that, not doing so, really does mean that they’re committing themselves to rule by oligarchy and, in a free market capitalist society, usually a foreign oligarchy at that. If not a free market capitalist economy, it will be one that has no philosophical reason not to be, and thus can’t be depended upon to act in a stable manner from one set of leaders to the next.
We literally see this play out every election cycle. This is why China and Russia claim the U.S. is not agreement capable, because we have leadership that isn’t tied by laws or philosophy to keeping an agreement. Doing so means they have no reason to come to any terms with us, as they shouldn’t.
So, as individuals, we must wake up and do what the regime hates. Pursue a fulfilling life. Have a family, a job you find fulfilling that gives you time off work, stay out of debt, live in the country if possible. Grow a garden. Raise as many animals as you can. Throw a block party if you’re in the city, or a pig roast if you’re in the country. The point is to set down bones and dig into the earth where ever you are. Find something to love, people to love, something to live, breath, sweat, and die for. That’s exactly what they don’t want you to do - be human and find human perfection.
And, if you can’t find it where you are, work towards moving to where you can find it. I get it, I’ve lived all over the country - each coast and in some of the most liberal cities we have on offer. I’ve had to live pretending that flour and water without eggs for weeks on end makes pancakes, and save up to move. You do what you have to, and get by, and find a place you can be human, with people that are human and love you, even after a fight. Because you fight with people sometimes because you love them and your community, and everyone involved in the fight wants to see it grow.
And, as you see it grow, you build walls up. Both inside and outside the community. Both metaphorical and real walls. No one with real community experience of ties that bind thinks that you can really Fly Francy Free, or you’ll be at each other’s throats in no time. Just as the U.S. should be putting on laws and find ways to protect it’s citizens now so that we can enjoy the Freedom of Walls, so too does the community need to enforce socially these walls in the same kind of manner an Amish or Jewish community would. If you want your community to prosper, money must stay in the community as much as possible. You already lose money out of the community to the government every transaction via taxes, no need to expedite it by paying strangers as well.
And this is why, at the local level, capitalism itself must die as well, and we should avoid free markets. This is because we’re searching for higher goods. If you find no satisfaction with simply making money, but find more with family, friends, building generational legacies of honor, community, and love…
Of striving for God with your fellow man, building something beautiful within yourself and outside, as a community…
That’s what I’m talking about.
And that, dear friends, is a summation of this substack to date.
There remains to be discussed the question, Whether the happiness of the individual is the same as that of the state, or different? Here again there can be no doubt - no one denies that they are the same.
- Aristotle Politics Book VII Chapter 2
Good article. I don't understand why you mentioned me in this context: "contrary to Tree of Woe putting forward that there are two ideas, there really is only one - that all power comes from God in this life." What are the two ideas you are referencing, or which article of mine were you referring to? Cheers!
Will do. I do like the longer form posts. Everything seems to be moving towards tic-toc attention spans...quick dopamine bits. Longer essays seem to push back against the tide.