When I first began to podcast and write about what I was seeing in the world around me, one thing I quickly became aware of was that many who were already in the content creation sphere were great at diagnosing the problems that we in society face, but few had what appeared to me to be realistic solutions.
Think of the dome of cologne, a great cathedral. 300years. Generations. You must take pride in the work of your ancestors for you to be willing to meet their standards. Otherwise you will have a hard time taking pride in your own work.
It's gone even farther than people being convinced not to pass their families stories onto their children, I've seen videos of women saying that we need to stop celebrating marriage as if it's the most important thing a woman can do in her life. They say we should celebrate getting into college, getting a good job, or other generally transient periods in ones life with the same vigor and importance that choosing a good LIFE PARTNER gets. I'm sorry but choosing a good spouse has almost immeasurable impact on the rest of your life (arguably so does choosing a lousy spouse, this just is immeasurably poor or frustrating impact generally) but it seems that a lot of women have been taught that the important part is the wedding, the party, not the part that comes after. If people struggle to even build strong lasting companionship bonds then we have fewer opportunities to pass on our families history to begin with whether people think that's worthy or not.
Also, I find it a load of bullshit hypocrisy that the side screaming about how we shouldn't be proud of our ancestors/family history because it wasn't us also wants to hold us as guilty because of the sins of our ancestors. You can't have it both ways.
And they also tend to either be Ethnonarcisists or close allies with Ethnonarcisists. It's just another vector of attack for them hoping that we are too stupid to recognize what they are doing or too meek to push back against it if we do.
“…many who were already in the content creation sphere were great at diagnosing the problems that we in society face, but few had what appeared to me to be realistic solutions.”
I think most of us have wrestled with that problem. Diagnosis is important, because without it, you might try to solve the wrong problem, but after a while, the problem is obvious, and the next problem is what to do about it.
Im a descendant of 11 signitories of the Magna Carta. On my dads side, we were a sept of Clan MacGregor and we survived that purge as well. Ive thought a lot about the lives of those in my bloodline who walked this Earth in years past. Ive thought of their hopes, fears, dreams and nightmares and here I am hoping and praying that I am making decisions for my family with my wife that 200 years in the future someone can maybe look back and say,"This is where everything changed for them."
Pete have you read The Ancient City? The original Indo-European form of religion was patrilineal ancestor worship (not "worship" in the silly modern usage of the word, but a ritualized reverence for the authority/responsibility shouldered in service to the preservation of one's people). Men were "proud" because they knew that they, too, were made of the same stuff that allowed their ancestors to survive, conquer, and thrive; to be efficacious in their struggle with a hostile environment. Protecting and propagating that ability is to accept reality as the great external mold to which we must conform, rather than defying nature's demands while attempting to subvert reality because we think we can do better. It is the primordial meaning of the spiritual phrase, "thy will, not mine be done".
People used to build cathedrals that took hundreds of years to finish; I read recently about a family of map makers that took two and a half generations to finish their masterwork. It's good and right to be proud of your family and your collective achievements - as mighty as architecting cathedrals or a common as being moral, upstanding people that help their neighbors and stand up for what's right.
Maybe it's only a semantic thing, but I think we should remember and honor our history, not be proud of it. False pride leads to idleness. We need to build on that legacy, so that we too have something to be proud of. Otherwise we're just bragging about a half-built cathedral and resting on our forefather's laurels.
Think of the dome of cologne, a great cathedral. 300years. Generations. You must take pride in the work of your ancestors for you to be willing to meet their standards. Otherwise you will have a hard time taking pride in your own work.
It's gone even farther than people being convinced not to pass their families stories onto their children, I've seen videos of women saying that we need to stop celebrating marriage as if it's the most important thing a woman can do in her life. They say we should celebrate getting into college, getting a good job, or other generally transient periods in ones life with the same vigor and importance that choosing a good LIFE PARTNER gets. I'm sorry but choosing a good spouse has almost immeasurable impact on the rest of your life (arguably so does choosing a lousy spouse, this just is immeasurably poor or frustrating impact generally) but it seems that a lot of women have been taught that the important part is the wedding, the party, not the part that comes after. If people struggle to even build strong lasting companionship bonds then we have fewer opportunities to pass on our families history to begin with whether people think that's worthy or not.
Also, I find it a load of bullshit hypocrisy that the side screaming about how we shouldn't be proud of our ancestors/family history because it wasn't us also wants to hold us as guilty because of the sins of our ancestors. You can't have it both ways.
And they also tend to either be Ethnonarcisists or close allies with Ethnonarcisists. It's just another vector of attack for them hoping that we are too stupid to recognize what they are doing or too meek to push back against it if we do.
“…many who were already in the content creation sphere were great at diagnosing the problems that we in society face, but few had what appeared to me to be realistic solutions.”
I think most of us have wrestled with that problem. Diagnosis is important, because without it, you might try to solve the wrong problem, but after a while, the problem is obvious, and the next problem is what to do about it.
Im a descendant of 11 signitories of the Magna Carta. On my dads side, we were a sept of Clan MacGregor and we survived that purge as well. Ive thought a lot about the lives of those in my bloodline who walked this Earth in years past. Ive thought of their hopes, fears, dreams and nightmares and here I am hoping and praying that I am making decisions for my family with my wife that 200 years in the future someone can maybe look back and say,"This is where everything changed for them."
Pete have you read The Ancient City? The original Indo-European form of religion was patrilineal ancestor worship (not "worship" in the silly modern usage of the word, but a ritualized reverence for the authority/responsibility shouldered in service to the preservation of one's people). Men were "proud" because they knew that they, too, were made of the same stuff that allowed their ancestors to survive, conquer, and thrive; to be efficacious in their struggle with a hostile environment. Protecting and propagating that ability is to accept reality as the great external mold to which we must conform, rather than defying nature's demands while attempting to subvert reality because we think we can do better. It is the primordial meaning of the spiritual phrase, "thy will, not mine be done".
Yes, and I did an episode on it. 🙏🙏
Well, time to spelunk the archives, I must have missed that one!
People used to build cathedrals that took hundreds of years to finish; I read recently about a family of map makers that took two and a half generations to finish their masterwork. It's good and right to be proud of your family and your collective achievements - as mighty as architecting cathedrals or a common as being moral, upstanding people that help their neighbors and stand up for what's right.
Maybe it's only a semantic thing, but I think we should remember and honor our history, not be proud of it. False pride leads to idleness. We need to build on that legacy, so that we too have something to be proud of. Otherwise we're just bragging about a half-built cathedral and resting on our forefather's laurels.
This is a great point - there's a difference between a humble pride that honors history and vainglory.
Your piece made me think of this... https://longnow.org/clock/
Probably full of progressive wokeness, but the right idea.
Also Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Intellectuals in monasteries may do society a lot less harm, and vice versa.