Genetic Memory

To the critical thinker, the issue of race is not one of skin colour or of some imagined hierarchy of ethnic authority. It is not a trigger, likewise, of mass insecurity, to be stifled by the constant, comforting hum of 'equality.' It is neither a single marker of predetermined identity nor some savagery to overcome, or even now overcome in our ever so enlightened age. Race, heritage, and tribe are just as vital to the function of societies and individuals across the globe as they are to the natural assemblies of animals 'below humanity.' In an era that pursues the temporal and worships the whims of the individual, that which is eternal is reviled, and the obligation of tribal identity and ancestral responsibility is feared. 

As with everything else today, culture comes prepackaged for mass-consumption. As such, the issue of tribe becomes a shallow and often ignored one, until the rather laboured standard of 'equality' is at all threatened. The aesthetics of heritage, however, have received an unwanted attention: they have become nothing but diversions, losing the moving spiritual power that our histories and tribal mythos once gave our lives and our hearts. Today, one need not be born of the rich cultural traditions of a tribe to dress up in its garb and play pretend that one is a part of it. Unfortunately, when one does so, it is hardly with the intent to do something so whimsical as play; it is often with the intent to form a basis of life, often resuming the attitude of a game when bored and moving on to some other diversion. Just as is so with everything else humanity among nature once held as sacred and invigorating, heritage has become a form of entertainment. 

Consider a growing trend in primarily anglophone countries: Japanese animation has become increasingly popular, especially in the United States of America. Outside of Japan, where its 'anime' has taken root, subcultures have been developed dedicated to Japanese culture. It these evolved for the purpose of the study of Japanese and other East Asian traditions, this in and of itself would present no problem. However, rather than representing an opportunity to supplement one's understanding of tradition or worldview, followers of anime tend to adopt the customs of the Japanese as their own, often making an unintentional mockery of the very culture they have adopted as a surrogate. This trend has equivalents in various National-Socialists movements, primarily in America. In these, European cultures are equalised into a 'white culture' and represented by a Nordogermanic aesthetic. While this author respects nationalist sentiment and does not subscribe to Angloamerican brainwashing concerning the movement's history, he finds this trend absolutely appalling, but sadly predictable. The United States of America have been struggling with a lack of culture since their independence of Great Britain. Nature abhors a void, and the human heart abhors the lack of common ground between itself and others. It is only natural that an individual seek some system to which he can belong; man is a social creature by nature. It is when he adopts a system foreign to that by which his ancestors lived and by which his blood was coloured that he acts against his being. The author will enthusiastically concede that while similarities between one's birth-tradtion and foreign cultures can be found and certainly appreciated, it holds no purpose other than to amuse oneself to mimic these customs. Every culture has systems and values which can be considered similar, even commensurate in some case to value-systems of other cultures. Appreciating these common foundations is only relevant when considered in the context of one's own birth-values, as it encourages a more thorough understanding of one's predicaments without promoting a chaotic and haphazard amalgam of worldviews. 

The author may be speaking to a group who agree readily that it is 'bad,' at first glance, that individuals are ignoring their heritage. This audience would do well to acknowledge the question most assuredly asked by the remainder of his readership: why is this a 'bad' thing? The more popular (read: 'vocal') scientists of our day will insist, quite fervently, that race is either nonexistent or that it amounts solely to skin colour. (The author finds it somewhat odd that, even among the scientists who deny the prominence of race, there is no consensus or clear definition yet, to them at least, of what constitutes ethnicity.) The inherent fallacy in this is obvious to the critical thinker and is evidenced in the process of evolution. Evolution is not, as commonly portrayed, a process of 'ascension' from a lower order of animal to a higher order, although certain creatures can develop and have developed more complex faculties than possessed by ancestors. It is a process of adaptation to an ever-changing environment, the passing on of traits desirable with the specific context of one's environment and individual predicaments. As such, and as it is clear that race is not something determined by a single genetic marker, but is a collection of traits observable across a large and particular group of humans, 'race' developed as a product of the environment, just as different breeds of a single species are created in different areas of the world. There is no question of 'inferiority' amongst them, but only the question of effective adaptation to the specific region. Even the composition of the brains of different breeds and species become varied in regards to what functions and patterns of behaviour are necessary for survival; this has nothing to do with 'intelligence' as defined by 'smart-contra-stupid,' but the 'values' of different tribes and traditions. Customs, religions, mythology, clothing all grow out of this adaptation, this development of complex behaviours in order to cope with the harsh and dynamic natural world. In short: culture is evolutionary, an ornamented series of traditions grown from patterns of behaviour which are genetic. (This, of course, does not mean that a people's language, as an example, is inherent within their genes, but that their composition works to develop a mental framework more suited to manipulate such a symbol system.) 

The importance of a connection to the natural world cannot be argued. The Earth is humanity's lifeblood, and our disconnection from it brings death. Even if a dissociation with birth-cultures is unnatural, it is argued that some of humanity's most primal functions of survival are now, in this day and age, unnecessary. As mental health degenerates worldwide, in not only the arena of sanity but in wise decision-making on national scales, and as the world's resources are in danger of overconsumption and the environment is in danger of becoming irreparably ruined, one can only ask exactly how far humanity has taken itself from its need of its most basic methods of survival. Modern society has devalued heritage and done what it can to demonise nationalism, particularly through playing to insecurities and manipulating the crowd's fears of mass-extermination. Functional and spiritually satisfying art fades, as traditional values are mocked and labelled 'defeated' in the blind parcosm of the modern. Tribal and national unity degenerates, as national identity is portrayed as ridiculous and ignorant. Nations and resources fail, but the failures trumpet their victory over evil even as they grow sickly and bloated and as the soil turns to barren dust beneath their feet. The author's only suggestion would be to halt this process as immediately and thoroughly as possible through a fervid embrace of traditional custom.  

For the Gaels of Ireland, this means regaelicisation, a revival of the Tongue, of our old religion, and of agrarianism, as well as a progressive development of Irish romanticism and symphony, of High Art alongside folk art. It means a deanglicisation of our daily customs and language and a deliberate separation from the United Kingdom and the insistent international market. It means the repatriation of the descendants of the Irish diaspora with the greatest minds and the purest blood. The preservation and unity of our blood, culture, and soil are our greatest priority. 

References: 

Debunking Anti-Racist Arguments: http://www.nazi.org/library/race/debunking_anti-racism.html

Revolt Against the Modern World, Julius Evola.

Comparative Mythology, Jaan Puhvel.

Civilisation in Transition, Carl Gustav Jung.

Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler.

Man and His Symbols, Carl Gustav Jung.

Quantam Psychology: How Brain Softare Programs You and Your World, Robert Anton Wilson.

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon.

By Conchobhair Ó Scannlain