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Ode to the Kamikaze Corps, an essay by Chōkōdō Shujin, published by Arktos.

Chōkōdō Shujin commemorates the glory of the kamikaze pilots who sacrificed themselves for the honor of Japan and the Emperor.

Excerpt:

I am a scholar of literature, a skeptic by nature, and someone who continues to doubt humanity to the death, but I prefer not to doubt the sentiments of the suicide pilots. In the end, theirs was a struggle against the instinct not to die. They became bombs themselves and hit enemy ships. No, many of them would have been shot down on the way, but I would have liked to see all of them honored for the few that plunged into the enemy ships. They themselves became sparks of fire, and in the sparks of fire, the sad history of their twenty-odd years bloomed and disappeared. At the base, one cannot speak as to the character of individual pilots. They were fundamentally human, heroic as their deaths may have been. They were sons and husbands, afraid of death, in love with life, perhaps more in love with their nation than anyone else in the world, yet they were patriotic poets. A poet is one who dedicates his life to beauty. There is no need for...

Read the full essay here:

https://arktos.com/2023/10/18/ode-to-the-kamikaze-corps/

"Three centuries thereafter, I take passage overland

In the footsteps of brave Kelsey, where his Sea of Flowers began

Watching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again

This tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain...

And through the night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west

I think upon Mackenzie, David Thompson and the rest

Who cracked the mountain ramparts and did show a path for me

To race the roaring Fraser to the sea...

How then am I so different from the first men through this way?

Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away

To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men

To find there but the road back home again..."

"Northwest Passage" by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers embodies the Faustian and Canadian spirit, which is the urge to explore and gain knowledge and mastery in the face of danger and mystery, and the conflict between that spirit and our tamed and civilized modern world.

The spirits of Leif Eriksson, John Cabot, Samuel de Champlain, Sir John Franklin, Alexander Mackenzie, Henry Kelsey, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes and his four sons, Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Vilhjalmur Stefansson and many other great European and Canadian explorers who travelled and explored our land live in our ranks.

Active Club Canada will continue to cultivate the Faustian Spirit in challenge against the modern world.

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