The essence of our own folk culture - of the new culture we seek to create through establishing a new homeland - resides in what is truely local and ancestral to both us and where we dwell.
That is, what is important, and what defines our Art, our music, our literature, our clothes, our very mode of being, is what is local and ancestral to where we dwell, and which is in harmony with, which manifests, our own identity, as members of a particular folk.
Our concerns - our world - is and should be what is local and important to us: what connects us to the land where we dwell, for it is this which gives us our true identity and which should shape and indeed contain that identity.
Thus, our music, our Art, our literature, should express and capture what is from the area where we dwell, as it should use or be based upon the forms, the instruments, the traditions, the ways, of that area - our homeland - to the exclusion of everything else. What is new, must be wholly based upon this; that is, it must not use any form, instrument, tradition, way or expression from anywhere else, but instead must grow naturally, organically, from what already is, for otherwise it is a contradiction of the ethos, the being, manifest in our culture.
Such forms grow naturally when their essence is of the area, the homeland, from whence they are grown: that is, when they express the soul, the ethos, of that area in a natural and numinous way because they are a part of the very living being of that area. Thus do they express, in forms such as words, images, music, song, the landscape, the very land itself, the seasons, the character, the stories, the history, of the people who dwell and who belong among such a landscape.
What is important is to use our will, our understanding, to reject what is unnecessary and detrimental to our culture, to our dwelling, our being: that is, to exercise restraint and use our judgement, based as this judgement is and must be upon reason and the limits, the bounds, set by our culture. For our culture defines our very meaning and purpose as individuals.
To recklessly, emotionally, accept outside influence without considering the consequences - and whether such influence is compatible with our culture, our way of life, our being - is to ignore our duty, as human beings: to act and behave like animals and not like thoughtful, wise, human beings.
Always our criteria must be our rational understanding of the purpose of our lives and of our culture: of us individuals as a nexus, and of our culture as not only a creation of Nature and the cosmos, but as important and necessary to the well-being of Nature, to the well-being of the cosmos and to the well-being of we ourselves.
The same applies to our own work, as individuals. It should be part of, or connected to, where we dwell, serving to enhance our land, and its people, in some way. There should not be any work involving things destructive of our culture, our homeland, or connected in any way with things unconnected to our homeland such as the business, the commerce, of the world beyond.
Our homeland - where we dwell and belong - must be of such a size that we can know all of it in a personal way: every field; every dwelling; every hill; every stream; even every tree and every person. It must and can only be of such a size that we can walk to every part of it within the space of at most three days: ideally within the space of one day.
Any area larger than this is too impersonal; too abstract, too large to be the type of living being which is a real, living, homeland where we can dwell and where indeed we, as living beings, are part of, connected to, in a special way: in that way which makes us truely a living, and necessary, part of this larger being.
Our focus must be an inner, willed focus upon our community, our homeland, our culture, to the exclusion of all else, for only this enables us to become free from all the external and destructive and meaningless forms which prevent us from living as we should: as a living nexus, an organic link between the past of our culture, our folk, our homeland, and the future of these living beings.
It is our task, our special Destiny, to bring these living beings back into health - to stop the further spread of the illness which now afflicts them - thus enabling them to grow and thrive again, and thus enabling Nature herself to recover. For, without our help and assistance, these beings will slowly and surely die.
To dwell in such an insular way as this will enable us to reconnect in a genuine, living, way to the being of Nature and the being of the cosmos itself, as this way and only this way will enable the survival of those living beings - homelands and the culture of such homelands - as a prelude to that entirely new way of reasoned numinous living which expresses our humanity, and which will bring forth, sometime in the future, a new world where communication and necessary trade between homelands is positive, life-giving and culture-enhancing, accepting as such communication and trade will do the necessity and difference of such homelands and the cultures based upon them, and the vital importance of ensuring their health, survival and continued organic evolution.
Thus it is that the welfare, the well-being, of such homelands, such cultures, will be the determining factors in such trade, such communication, not profit, and not abstract, lifeless, numinous-destroying, political and social ideas.
Today, all trade, all commerce, all politics, all communication is abstract and culture-destroying: undermining and destroying the living beings, such as organic homelands, which depend upon us and which we depend upon to express and realize our very humanity, and which we need to save and bring back to health to begin the next stages of our human evolution: the journey toward the stars.
David Myatt
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