Showing posts with label St. Augustine of Hippo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Augustine of Hippo. Show all posts

WE GOTTA HAVE FAITH IN NATIONALISM


Now that the Alt-Right has become the beacon of unity for the White Right, one of the more promising trends I've noticed is the reversion to faith. I say "promising" not as a giddy Bible thumper, but as one who understands the importance of faith in a society. The revolutionaries who created America understood the importance of faith, too. George Washington said as much in his farewell speech to the nation:

THE DEATH OF SEX


If there is a problem, it is only logical to yearn for its solution. If your house is on fire, who would not wish for the flames to be doused? If you have a disease, who would not crave an appropriate antidote, even if there were none available. A problem always implies a solution, even a hypothetical one, and even when the solution is worse than the problem, or the cure worse than the disease – that too is simply a problem calling for its own solution.

One of the most intractable problems of humanity is sexuality and its various aspects.

Firstly, it has been essential to human propagation, and for this reason it has been exempt from any truly radical critique – except on the lunatic fringe. Secondly, it has been associated with some of the highest and noblest aspects of human nature, and inextricably intertwined with them. When purified, rarefied, and sublimated, the crude sexual instinct becomes the foundation of such laudable elements of human nature as chivalry, family feeling, masculine honour, and even feminine chastity. Indeed, many of our traditional virtues have developed in symbiosis with – or more accurately in direct opposition to – our sexual natures. To strike at sex, therefore, is to a certain extent to strike at humanity.