For perseverance alone prevents slow progress from dwindling into nothing.” I-Ching, Hexagram 53

This is going to be a radically different post than the norm. Maybe it’s the new normal, I don’t know. It’s not about current events per se. It’s about finding the will and energy to continue putting one foot in front of the other intellectually, and some reflections on the general state of things after hammering away at this blog and the podcast on an almost weekly basis for several years. I hope you will forgive the personal indulgence. We all need to catch our breath from time to time. To stop and note the landmarks as we make our way.

I’m having difficulty getting excited about America’s 250th birthday. Indeed, I’m having difficulty getting excited about anything at all politically. Recently, I have experienced a crisis in faith and motivation. Life has been wearing me down, generally. Frankly, I’m a little burned out on the “news”. For all the Sturm und Drang, it’s really just the same nonsense. Only the names of the actors change.

I don’t mention this to whine or ask for sympathy. We all have our personal challenges. Instead, I share these musings in the hope that my struggles, and how I deal with them, may benefit you as well. Part of National Socialism, and I would say a significant and central part, is sharing. That is the point of Tribe, of Volk, of The People. The whole is stronger than the one, and the one is but a part of the whole. Burdens are shared.

My recovery begins with resolve and perseverance.

Recognizing that I am not omniscient, over the past forty years I have used the I-Ching to garner insight and enlarge my perspective on questions that otherwise left me befuddled and confused.

Briefly, for those unfamiliar with the I-Ching, it is an ancient Chinese “divination” system, thousands of years old. It is an interesting piece of work. My way is not your way, and I am not suggesting that it is the right thing for everyone, but it works for me.

In short, contrary to popular belief, the I-Ching does not tell the future, per se. Nor does it answer questions directly in a “yes” or “no” fashion. Instead, it is rather like a pair of infra-red goggles, helping you to see things that might otherwise be hidden. The premise is that there are forces and influences in our world of which we are often unaware. Further, it holds that we are of nature and subject to the same laws which govern the universe as a whole. In many ways, this is the same position held by National Socialism. The I-Ching helps one to see those influences and consider the forest for the trees. From another perspective, it helps one to bring their subconscious thoughts and knowledge to the fore where it can be seen and considered.

Again, in short, the I-Ching is a tool not a belief system and can allow one to communicate with the universe by better communicating with one’s self, because we are part of that same universe. Sometimes it is like talking with a friend. Sometimes it is like sitting quietly in front of a learned teacher. It always gives you something to think about. It provides guidance, not answers.

Now, you might find the same value in a well-worded fortune cookie, but like I said, it works for me. And sometimes its responses can be uncanny. Developed over generations, the “readings” (obtained in a certain fashion, I use a variation of the yarrow-stock method) take the form of a hexagram, followed by two sections called Judgement and Image, and each section has a commentary that helps one better understand what the Judgement and Image mean.

I use the Wilhlem/Baynes translation. The key is being able to read between the lines (no pun intended) and understanding what it has to say is partly intuitive, as the words themselves are not the point. After all, this is an English translation of a German translation of an ancient Chinese text. It took me twenty years of using other I-Ching translations or interpretations before I felt comfortable turning to this one, which is considered the defacto standard.

With that brief introduction, you can understand why I was moved to share what follows.

I have been feeling, of late, like I was standing in a large open field with a rifle, shooting at the horizon. Maybe I hit something, maybe I didn’t. Either way, I would never know, and have found myself fighting a growing sense of ennui and exhaustion (it’s all been said and done before, so what’s the point?). So, I asked the Oracle (as it is often referred to) for guidance regarding the future of this blog and my waning energy and interest in covering what I feel has been covered so many times before: I rail against AIPAC influence, and Israeli lap-poodle Lindsey Graham wins his election; I point out the egregious special interest and big oil underpinnings of our attack on Venezuela, and weeks later we go to war with Iran for the same interests; and so on.

It’s exhausting and frustrating.

Here was the response:

What was my take away? These are challenging time for myself, our people, and our race (“Thus everywhere superior men are oppressed and held in restraint by inferior men”). But we must not give up, for in doing so, we only ensure our defeat (“He who lets his spirit be broken by exhaustion certainly has no success”). The Exhaustion is real. But it is natural (“When the water has flowed out below, the lake must dry up and become exhausted. This is fate.”) And it will pass. There is nothing to do about it but to accept it for what it is and persevere the best we can. The best I can. Remain true. Or in other words, Meine Ehre heißt Treue (“In such times there is nothing a man can do but acquiesce in his fate and remain true to himself).

So, this is my contribution. This is me being part of the larger whole, the Volk. This is me not giving up.

Adolf Hitler would understand this. As he said in Mein Kampf, Chapter 11:

This state of mind, which forces self-interest into the background in favor of the community, is the first prerequisite for any true human culture. From this alone rises all the great works of humanity, that bring little reward to the creator but is a source of great blessings for posterity. It’s this spirit alone that explains why a people can endure a harsh but honest existence, but at the same time consolidates the foundations on which the community exists. Every worker, every peasant, every inventor, state official, etc., who works without ever achieving fortune or prosperity for himself is a representative of this sublime idea-even though he may never become conscious of the profound meaning of his own activity.

The “he may never become conscious of the profound meaning of his own activity” caught my eye, for herein lies one source of motivation. We simply don’t know what the future will bring. Perhaps I write this, and years from now, some young person reads it and the words resonate. He sees the truth in racial affirmation and the preservation of our people. In time, this person, holding firm to his National Socialist convictions, finds himself in a position to be the deciding vote on a jury to keep a criminal behind bars who would otherwise have walked free to appease the social-justice-warriors protesting outside the courthouse. Because the reprobate is kept behind bars, he is not free to murder my great-grandchild the following week in a robbery gone wrong, which is what would have happened if he had not been incarcerated. We simply don’t know what the future will bring. Before a plant can grow, the seed must be planted.

As I said, I want to share this because we are part of the same community, and perhaps my experience will help you with your challenges. After all, as National Socialists, we find ourselves navigating waters with incomplete charts. Our vision of the world was truncated in 1945. National Socialist Germany started by living its worldview before it was fully articulated theoretically. As Otto Dietrich said in 1934, ““Unlike others, we have proceeded according to the principle of first arranging practical life in accord with our worldview, and then [demonstrating] its viability, before perfecting its design in the realm of scholarship.” [The Philosophical Foundations of National Socialism].

However, what was articulated provides some solace and guidance. When in doubt, especially as we look at the lost potential of what was the American Dream, it is good to start at the beginning and return to core principals.

And one of those core principals which runs contrary to the easily exploited fallacy of American Individualism, is the recognition that we as individuals are part of a larger whole, much as a cell is to a body. Because of this, the expression “Public interest before self-interest” is fundamental to the National Socialist worldview. Adherence to that simple principal alone would address many of our problems.

“Public interest before self-interest” precludes the creation of trillionaires while hard working Americans struggle to feed their families and receive adequate healthcare for their children and aging parents.

“Public interest before self-interest” means global corporations cannot rape and pillage the environment or pave over farmland for AI data centers to benefit a few shareholders or private equity groups while poisoning the land for the everyone else.

“Public interest before self-interest” recognizes that billionaires cannot insist that delivery drivers pee in water bottles so that product deliveries can proceed at an inhuman and unhealthy pace to bolster sales.

In short, “Public interest before self-interest” does not allow seeing our Volk as expendable capital in the pursuit of endless profit.

As Gottfried Feder says:

’Public interest before self interest’ is the first law of National Socialism. We see equally in this first principle how intimately morality and economics are involved with each other. Public interest before self-interest is first a moral demand. But it expresses at the same time with excellent linguistic clarity the hierarchical ordering between the welfare of the whole and the justified striving of the individual for personal acquisition and property. This National Socialist principle therefore in no way excludes private property. On the contrary: National Socialism acknowledges fully and completely the significance of property. It knows that personal property and a right to dispose of an acquisition freely is the foundation of every economics and, beyond that, of every higher culture; but National Socialism has recognized equally that for the acknowledgement of private property it is necessary to draw quite definite limits, that is, where property becomes a mere instrument of power and is applied in an exploitative way against the welfare of the whole.”

“Public interest before self interest”, if not stated exactly in that manner, was also a fundamental component of the America social landscape for much of its existence. Being American was a source of pride. We had a tribe, a national identity, a commonality in culture, beliefs, and community. And while capitalist greed was baked into the cake at the country’s founding, there was an undercurrent or understanding of national identity that argued for something larger, something that transcended mere personal interest. The base impulses of capitalism were tempered by a real sense of obligation and duty to the community.

As an example, consider Teddy Roosevelt’s attack on monopolies early in the last century. In his 1901 State of the Union address, he said:

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions,…[It is] our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions…There is a widespread conviction in the minds of the American people that the great corporations known as trusts are in certain of their features and tendencies hurtful to the general welfare. This springs from no spirit of envy or charitableness, nor lack of pride in the great industrial achievements that have placed this country at the head of the nations struggling for commercial supremacy. It is based upon sincere conviction that combination and concentration should be, not prohibited, but supervised and within reasonable limits controlled; and in my judgment, this conviction is right.

Using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, Roosevelt went after such titans as John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Co. and J.P. Morgan’s Northern Securities Co., a railroad conglomerate that the U.S. Supreme Court dissolved. Can you imagine something similar happening now to Google, Amazon, or Lockheed-Martin?

I’m not a big fan of any Roosevelt, Teddy was too much of a Zionist for my taste, and don’t get me started on FDR, but the point is, at one time there was a sense or understanding that the role of government was to further the interests of the national community, the general welfare, and to promote the well-being of the many over the monetary gain of a few. Americans fought for Americans.

Even the preamble of the U.S. Constitution spelled it out in 1787:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

But thanks to unfettered immigration going back to at least 1965, and outright communist infiltration of our institutions, our national identity has eroded to a point where someone like myself, who can document ancestors that came over on the Mayflower and who fought in every American war to date, questions whether the sobriquet “American” actually means anything.

Now we near the 250th anniversary of this country, and I find myself moving from disappointment, through despair, and into sadness tinged with a modicum of anger that our nation has become little more than a suburb of Tel Aviv. At the bicentennial in 1976, I remember being a cub scout, waving the American Flag at a jamboree, celebrating our country’s 200th anniversary. The dream for me, as a child, was real and irrefutable. Now, I fear for my children’s future.

I read enough history to know that there never was a golden age when every politician was noble and honest, when every corporation put the welfare of its workers above shareholder profits, and when racial solidarity preempted class struggles and privilege. And I have traveled enough in third-world and second-world countries to know that the average American citizen has it far better than many luckless souls in those places.

But that makes the pain all the more poignant. What could have been, and perhaps was at one point, a great nation is now lost in debt and selfish pursuits. It would be one thing if the mistakes made were committed in good faith. But they are not. Our so-called leaders know we are being crushed by low wages and rising prices. They know the social safety net is headed toward bankruptcy. They know the wealth disparity between those who do the work and those who profit from it has reached unheard of levels and continues to climb.

And they do nothing for the simple reason that they put their selfish individual interest before the good of the public interests. There motto is “Tel Aviv before Washington”. Period. Hard stop.

So, America 250? I mark the date and mourn the loss.

Which brings me back to where I started. Where appropriate and helpful, I will comment on news items that highlight a concern or underscore a relevant point. After all, with the ever-increasing background noise in our daily lives, it is important to focus occasionally on specifics and look at the larger context and implications. We must not allow a flagging awareness to become blindness. We cannot afford to let resignation become capitulation.

Just as tides ebb and flow, our energy to continue the struggle waxes and wanes. I hope that by sharing some of the thoughts I have had over the last few days, you may find the resolve to hold firm when your enthusiasm or conviction is in a moment of decline. As the I-Ching often says, “Perseverance furthers.”

Thank you, comrades, for listening. Onward!

Amerika Erwache!

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