Founding A Polis on Religion is Creating a New Ethnicity
White is a Color, not an Ethnicity Brother!
The peoples of could countries generally, and particularly those of Europe, are full of spirit, but deficient in skill and intelligence; and this is why they continue to remain comparatively free, but attain no political development and show no capacity for governing others. The peoples of Asia are endowed with skill and intelligence, but are deficient in spirit; and this is why they continue to be peoples of subjects and slaves. The Greek stock, intermediate in geographical position, unites the qualities of both sets of peoples. It possesses both spirit and intelligence: the one quality makes it continue free; the other enables it to attain the highest political development, and to show a capacity for governing every other people - if only it could once achieve political unity. The same sort of difference as that between Greek and non-Greek peoples may also be traced among Greek peoples themselves. Some of them are of a one-sided nature: others show a happy mixture of spirit and intelligence.
- Aristotle Politics Book VII Chapter 7
To sum up where we are, in Founding a Polis I made the claim that person of the dissident right, who feels that the Empire of the USSA has abandoned him, should make his own home by founding a Polis with a religious worship site as its center focal point.
When you have done so, you need to sit back, find your place in it, not be a fed boy, not be an entryist, and find your groove. Be a resource to the community so that they will listen to you, and start shifting their Overton window to its natural place - that over generational building towards a Polis. Be a part of it, be dynamic, and be the change you want to see.
But now, to make another bold, barbaric claim, I will say that the white ethnic state some people want to make on the dissident right is not going to happen. Instead, what is doable and, indeed, laudable, is to be a part of founding new ethnicities while founding new polities.
You see, talking with
and focused this for me. Obviously, my previous writing had always acknowledged that nations, ethnicities, and polities broke down far, far smaller than the modern man acknowledges them to be. In fact, I think technology makes them yet smaller, not larger, as it atomizes the individual, family unit, and we look at the coming DOOM as Anhaf would call it.Anyways, in conversation it came up that there are three ways to achieve a uniform society.
War and death
Migration - either forced or by choice
Procreation - again, either forced or by choice
So, as I study history, even during the colonial eras where people want to pretend our ancestors are so called “hard men who made hard choices” I call bull. In the most racist of times, where they literally made designations of mixed race blood of Blacks, American Indians, Caribbean Islanders down to the 128th mixed with European, while having a tiered society where freed blacks might be elevated over non-aristocratic whites at times in countries such as Haiti. Not to mention other confusing hierarchies such as the European’s born in the Americas, or nobility of the Americas who then came to Europe and ingratiated themselves in the Spanish court…
These people couldn’t stomach the slaughter of civilians. Sure, a select few of each population could do it. Yet to embrace it and accomplish it went against long term goals. Doing it got Haiti on the no trade list for years. Multiple times. Even after they had sufficient cause from being enslaved, and had signed treaties.
What’s more, is that in doing so you train your populace to be a bunch of sociopathic thugs, willing to turn on neighbors they had dined with, loved, and adored.
So, instead, I’m going to advocate that you found the city around your Parish or Church.
You make those people your people. And everyone else not your people.
You in group everyone that believes, you ally with everyone in a geographical location around that is willing to act friendly, and has something to offer.
But you only marry those you have common beliefs with.
And thus, a new ethnicity is born.
And it will be called Greater Southern Appalachian.
Or New Catholics of Nevada. Or the Anglicans of Greater Ohio. The Druids of Northern California. The Mestizos of Southern Utah.
Or who knows what.
I mean, St Bede talks about the North Umberlands and South Umberlands. Scots and Picts.
In Ireland they have historically broken it down by County.
In Italy by city.
Who knows what kind of patch work this Empire will turn out to be when it all plays out?
But, it will be exciting.
I think that these matters permeate the dissident right, as
has written on marriage and children lately, and has a hilarious satire as well. Obviously, it may be that I have Polis on the brain, and am relating much to marriage and children. However, to me, the idea of not just founding one’s own dynasty, of not just founding a Polis, but of being a part of founding an ethnicity, are all exciting things.And there are opportunities for everyone. Reasons for everyone, lowest to highest, to put there all into the endeavor.
Because, dear readers.
We don’t have to Imagine John Lennon’s world of no countries, world, religion, or Hell.
It’s already staring us in the face.
Let’s smash it to pieces.
And build in the ruins.
The argument shows that the sort of people which a legislator can easily guide into the way of goodness is one with a natural endowment that combines intelligence and spirit. The attitude which some require in their guardians - to be friendly disposed to all whom they know, and stern to all who are unknown - is the attitude of a high-spirited temper. Spirit is the faculty of our souls which issues in of and friendship; and it is a proof of this that when we think ourselves slighted our spirit is stirred more deeply against acquaintances and friends than ever it is against strangers. […] This faculty of our souls not only issues in love and friendship, it is also the source for us all of any power of commanding and any feeling for freedom. Spirit is a commanding and an unconquerable thing.
- Aristotle Politics Book VII Chapter 7
Thanks for the shout-out - good essay. I myself am still thinking through how one bests handles ethnic diversity given what we know about its downsides; your answer is as good as I've seen.
That concept is called "The Benedict Option" and is described by Rob Dreher in his book "The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation" (published in 2017).
Info: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/meaning-of-the-benedict-option/