"No one can argue you out of being your father's son. If your foundational identity is something you can be argued into or out of, you are a civic nationalist."
There is a paradox in the idea that man is confined to his biological family, can never escape it, and so is duty-bound to it – no matter the consequences. What should be obvious is the meaning this has for dissidents confronting liberalism: that it too is the family which man must serve. Biology constrains us to thinking that our father is closest to us; only spiritual thinking could link a man today to a figure hundreds of generations past. Here too all sense of family conflict is lost, the great tragedies, the afflictions which point to things at once greater and lesser than the family.
The irony is lost on the late-stage nationalists, who cannot even see their own genealogy, despite its being limited to all-too-recent years. This limited thinking suggests that theories of primordial nationalism amount to little more than sending off blood samples for testing in some foreign country, as if an international map could link us to our true self, then be discarded, returned to national conceptions of race. What is revealed here is a race which does not know itself, not even its weaknesses.
Another paradox is that nationalism and historiography are themselves 'propositional' ways of seeing the world. In fact, there may be nothing more propositional than searching out the original error of man, that single moment in which it all went wrong for nationalists. A magic dirt theory of time. And of course, if the body really was superior to the mind, one would think that at some point during the 10,000 year decline it would have overcome this error of the mind – or at least sensed it.
https://t.me/ImperiumPressOfficial/1499
There is a paradox in the idea that man is confined to his biological family, can never escape it, and so is duty-bound to it – no matter the consequences. What should be obvious is the meaning this has for dissidents confronting liberalism: that it too is the family which man must serve. Biology constrains us to thinking that our father is closest to us; only spiritual thinking could link a man today to a figure hundreds of generations past. Here too all sense of family conflict is lost, the great tragedies, the afflictions which point to things at once greater and lesser than the family.
The irony is lost on the late-stage nationalists, who cannot even see their own genealogy, despite its being limited to all-too-recent years. This limited thinking suggests that theories of primordial nationalism amount to little more than sending off blood samples for testing in some foreign country, as if an international map could link us to our true self, then be discarded, returned to national conceptions of race. What is revealed here is a race which does not know itself, not even its weaknesses.
Another paradox is that nationalism and historiography are themselves 'propositional' ways of seeing the world. In fact, there may be nothing more propositional than searching out the original error of man, that single moment in which it all went wrong for nationalists. A magic dirt theory of time. And of course, if the body really was superior to the mind, one would think that at some point during the 10,000 year decline it would have overcome this error of the mind – or at least sensed it.
https://t.me/ImperiumPressOfficial/1499