Environments Respond to People. People Respond to Environments:

What separates a nationalist from a liberal or a libertarian?  I think it can be summarized quite succinctly:

Environments Respond to People.  People Respond to Environments.

A liberal thinks environments are completely unrelated to the people who inhabit them.  They think environments are plastic and that any group can create any society just as well as any other.  The only thing lacking is 'raw materials,' like proper education, health care, parenting, or just money in general.  They will not admit that environments gradually shift, inevitably, into Detroit or Haiti if inhabited by blacks, Mexico or Venezuela if inhabited by Hispanics, or Germany or Canada if inhabited by whites.  This is heretical and unspeakable.  Why, tomorrow, Germany could become Haiti, and Haiti could be transformed into Germany, if only we redistributed the 'raw materials of success' from one to the other.

This idea is so farcical when stated openly and clearly that it can be rejected out of hand.  It is self-evident that Germany would never become Haiti, no matter how poor, uneducated, poorly parented, or poorly governed they were.  It's just impossible.  Put a bunch of germans on a desert island with no raw materials and they'd still make it a decent country like the Germany they have today.  They couldn't help themselves.  It would come naturally to them.  The environment responds to the people who inhabit it.  Like the gypsies who litter and ruin everything until their apartment blocks become more gypsy slums no matter how many housing vouchers or area relocations they are given -- germans would gradually plant flowers and paint their fences until everything was just like Germany again.

Nor is it possible for Haiti, no matter how well governed, no matter how well fed, no matter how well educated, etc, to end up like Germany.  This is because even well fed, well educated Haitians do not have a Wolfgang Amodeus Mozart, or a Johann Sebastian Bach, or a Ludwig van Beethoven.  They do not have a Goethe, a Schilling, a Fritz Haber, a Wernher von Braun -- in short, they don't have anything or anyone on par with true Germans.  They can be fat Haitians.  They can be happy Haitians.  They can even be civilized Haitians.  But they can't be Germans, because they can't produce a single name akin to the german pantheon.  The greatest raw material of all is the 40,000 years Germany spent in the cold dangerous North, selecting from among our ancestors each generation only the smartest, bravest, truest, and strongest.  No liberal can give Haiti Germany's past.  Therefore no liberal can give Haiti Germany's present or future.  Liberals aren't God.  Their 'raw materials' are finite.  The gap between Haitians and Germans is infinite.

A nationalist realizes that his country will resemble his nation.  His 'state' will be whatever his 'people' make of it.  We can't help but be ourselves.  No one else can be us.

But unlike libertarians, we do not believe in the all-powerful individual.  We do not believe in the self-made man.  We do not believe in 'free will.'  This is because we believe in the next part of my two-part title:

People respond to environments.

Set forth various expectations of a child, and he will rise to meet them.  Children, especially, want and need direction in life.  They cannot 'raise themselves.'  They cannot reason out from first principles exactly how to best live and act in the world, how to treat others, etc -- not when Plato and Aristotle already tried and failed.  They need the inherited wisdom from the past, from the hive mind of those like them, who have faced similar situations and overcome them -- they need our culture.  They need us.  They need our love, our approval, our help, our stories, our protection.  They need us to stop them from taking drugs.  They need us to close off self-destructive sexual proclivities from the pale of acceptability.  They need us to stop them from dating Leroy and point out that nice Frederick over there.  It all starts with the children.  People are not born into a void, thrown into a river full of crocodiles, and told to 'fight it out' and 'may the best mammal or reptile win.'  People are as strong as their support network.  Or as our wonderful poet Kipling said:  The strength of the wolf is the pack.  The strength of the pack is the wolf.

People can be ruined, utterly ruined, by bad environments.  Russia destroyed itself under communism, in particular the onus to lie about everything to escape communist persecution.  The dissolution of the nuclear family, in a way, is destroying all of us.  It doesn't matter how rational, how Promethean, how objectivist, or how free the victims of communism are.  They are ruined at birth.  They never stood a chance.  Even Ayn Rand admits this in her best work, We the Living:  "Those who live under tyranny have three choices:  They can kill themselves, kill their mind, or leave."  Does this sound like an individual, self-made man bursting full of free will who can achieve anything?  Or a desperate plea for a nation to take care of its children because the laws of physics do not allow us to pick ourselves up by our own bootstraps? ((The force normal pushes down just as hard as you pull up, rendering all your work meaningless.))

A good environment, however, can create amazing fruit from the tiniest seed.  If you lived in Athens, you could become a Plato or an Aristotle.  If you lived in Germany, you could become a Mozart or a Beethoven.  If you lived in America, you could become a Franklin or a Jefferson.  This is because the culture around them both allowed them to be themselves, empowered them to improve themselves, and accepted the results of their forays into the mental wilderness, even if this meant painful and temporarily destructive change.  All three steps are incredibly rare -- which is why our lists of geniuses are so exclusive.  The bottleneck to great art and science isn't smart people, they're a dime a dozen (though the same can't be said of Haitians.)  The bottleneck is a smart culture, a smart people, that knows how to develop said talent, and embrace the results.

It isn't just what a culture can do for its elites, though, that makes us prefer Nationalism to Individualism.  It's for the sake of the 99.999% of the rest of our people too.  If a country takes care of you, with a citizen's dividend for instance, you will definitely be happier than if it doesn't.  Think of all the marriages that either never began, or quickly broke up, due to financial difficulties.  Think of all the children who had less than ideal childhoods because they didn't have the most basic things, like health care or food at night.  This is just the beginning though.  How much happier would people be if they had media that appealed to their better instincts, and tried to teach them the duties and joys of virtue?  Instead of watching soap operas that prepare you for a life of deceit, treachery, and violence -- what if we prepared our children with expectations for themselves, and their life partners?  Like virginity before marriage?  Like keeping your promises?  Like not smoking, drinking, gambling, or sleeping around?  Not only would these people be happier, because they could innately have more control over their lives and more pride in themselves -- but they would be happier because no one they knew would ever cheat on them, steal from them, betray them, lie to them, abandon them, or physically abuse them.  The life of the underclass is just one long war of abuse and retaliation, betrayal and revenge, beatings and dumpings.  Read Dalrymple for the details.  It's disgusting.  It hurts to even think about.  And it's rampant among the white underclass just like it is for the black underclass.  If you leave your people, your entire nation, to rot under a 'libertarian free for all,' the rot spreads from the fringe to the majority in a couple generations.  Edmund Burke had an answer to libertarianism before such a ludicrous belief was even voiced, but is all the more true today:

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing."

Civilization takes work.  Virtue takes work.  People are not born civilized or virtuous.  They are made civilized and virtuous.  Partially by themselves, by their own light of reason, and their wish to be loved by their parents and peers, who have a pre-set approval system in place (a culture and a law code) -- but also partially by us.  By us simply telling them what to think and how to behave -- and by us thinking and behaving, as a worked example, the way we wish they would think and behave themselves, for them to observe and emulate.  This isn't rocket science.  But it's so absolutely vital that our lawmakers, our story tellers, our parents, understand this grave responsibility, and do everything in their power to raise the next generation.  We have no higher duty.  The best 'raw material' we could ever give any child for an inheritance is a world where everyone is expected to act virtuously to everyone else and to their divine souls.  Money, education, whatever, it's all nothing without virtue.  Virtue is something we can give all of our children -- genius, fame, fortune, will always be reserved for a tiny few.  Virtue is the blessing of nationalism.  Virtue is what we have that libertarians don't.  Virtue is why we need an environment we can shape for ourselves, and no one else, and for no other ideal.  It's just non-negotiable.  Between freedom and virtue, nationalists have chosen their priority, and libertarians have chosen theirs, and never the twain shall meet.

One of the reasons I love Covington's Northwest Quartet is because his characters display the highest personal virtues in their daily life, and in their struggle, and in the country they leave behind as a result of their struggle.  People act respectfully, they dress well, they are principled, they are brave, their marriages stick, their kisses are few and far between, and meaningful when they occur.  Their children are behaved, their adults are responsible, and care about the big things.  It is just such a beautiful world.  It isn't rich, or powerful, or especially full of good composers -- but the people are so virtuous it makes you ache inside.  It makes you yearn to live there with all your heart.  To be one of their crew.  To call those people your friends, your wives, your children.  You could give anything for that.  It's worth the whole world.  This kind of virtue isn't a fantasy, it has been achieved by numerous cultures during their golden ages -- Victorian England, Norman Rockwell America, the oath of the Horatii Rome.  It just takes focus, determination, and responsibility.  If we work together, we can replant the seeds of virtue, uproot all the weeds of vice, and live more like angels than men.  Even the meanest of us can do it, with enough help from his surroundings.


I'm not that excited about living in a homogeneous white nation.  There are plenty of those already.  Croatia, Uruguay, et cetera.  They aren't even that great.  Oh, they're better than homogeneous black nations, to be sure.  But they aren't beautiful.  They aren't worth revolutionary wars for.  What I am excited about is the prospect of a virtuous white nation which has properly imbibed the spirit of nationalism, of racial pride, of racial duty, of the lessons our ancestors learned and we have foolishly forgotten.  A nation of marriages that really are until death does us part.  A nation full of white children, not just one or two, but bushels of them -- bushels of beautiful brilliant white children who, with the help of say Montessori schooling (or whatever policy we decide upon, but I really do think Montessori schooling works and is the right path), actually behave, can sit down, be quiet, avoid hitting people, avoid throwing tantrums, avoid stealing things, and avoid breaking things.  Children we can be proud of.  Countrymen we can be proud of.  Ideals we can be proud of.  A super-organism of which we, as individual parts, can be proud of.  Love, pride, beauty, bounty. . .an overflowing cup of spiritual gifts that just rains and rains and rains into your soul every time you look out the window, walk outside, talk to your neighbor, or embrace your wife.  Can you imagine?  I can.  I keep imagining and I keep yearning, and thus I can't stop trying to make it real.

The path to this reality is through nationalism.  It's not through liberalism.  It's not through libertarianism.  But nor is it through randomly grouping whites together or deporting non-whites and thinking, magically, everything will just work out on its own.  No.  Nothing will work out on its own.  In fact, everything will just return to the way it is today -- because we all started homogeneous white countries without a clue or a plan, and we all ended up here.  The plan is not:

Whites.
?????
Profit.

The plan is:

Virtue.
Children.
The Stars.

That is worth dying for.  God save us if we don't live for it.