Konservative Gedanken
Integritati et Merito - Aequis aequus
“Ich halte es für schlechten historischen Stil, sich über die Irrtümer von Vorfahren zu belustigen, ohne den Eros zu respektieren, der damit verbunden war. Wir sind dem Zeitgeist nicht weniger verfallen; die Narrheit vererbt sich, wir setzen nur eine neue Kappe auf.
Ich würde es meinem Erzeuger daher nicht verübeln, wenn er einfach im Irrtum befangen wäre; dem kann sich keiner entziehen. Mich stört nicht der Irrtum, sondern das Abgebrauchte, das Wiederkäuen von Phrasen, die einmal als große Worte die Welt bewegt haben.
Irrtümer können die politische Welt aus den Angeln heben; doch ist es mit ihnen wie mit den Krankheiten: In der Krisis können sie viel verrichten und sogar heilen - - - im Fieber werden die Herzen geprüft.”
(Quelle: amor-fati-graz, via enzian-und-edelweiss)
“Aristocracy had made a chain of all the members of the community, from the peasant to the king: democracy breaks that chain, and severs every link of it. As social conditions become more equal, the number of persons increases who, although they are neither rich enough nor powerful enough to exercise any great influence over their fellow-creatures, have nevertheless acquired or retained sufficient education and fortune to satisfy their own wants. They owe nothing to any man, they expect nothing from any man; they acquire the habit of always considering themselves as standing alone, and they are apt to imagine that their whole destiny is in their own hands. Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants, and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.”
(Quelle: radical-traditionalism, via nineisamagicnumber)
“Jeder Staatsdiener hat doppelte Pflicht: Gegen den Landesherrn und gegen das Land. Kann wohl vorkommen, daß die nicht vereinbar sind, dann aber ist die gegen das Land die höhere.”
“All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?”
(via amor-fati-graz)
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My last statement above reiterates the idea (mentioned early on in this essay) that there are conflicts of interest between human groups. I take this to be a truism, but in fact it is a controversial claim today. The ideal of multiculturalism, after all, is that of a society in which different groups happily coexist and have no fundamental conflicts of interest. But this ideal rests upon a breathtakingly shallow view of what “culture” consists in.
The liberal “celebration of diversity” is in fact a celebration of culture only in its external and superficial forms. In other words, to Western liberals “multiculturalism” winds up amounting simply to such things as the co-existence of different costumes, music, styles of dance, languages, and food. But the real guts of the different cultures consist in such things as how they view nature, how they view the divine, how they view men and women, and how they view the relative importance of their own group in the scheme of things. And it is by no means clear that members of cultures with radically different views on these matters can peacefully co-exist.
Unless, of course all cultural differences are eliminated save the purely external, via the transformation of all peoples into homogenized, interchangeable consumers bereft of any deeply-felt convictions. This is, in fact, the hidden global capitalist agenda of multiculturalism, now being cheerfully advanced by useful idiots on the anti-capitalist Left.
”(Quelle: radical-traditionalism)
“If the European grows accustomed not to rule, a generation and a half will be sufficient to bring the old continent, and the whole world along with it, into mortal inertia, intellectual sterility, universal barbarism. It is only the illusion of rule, and the discipline of responsibility which it entails, that can keep Western minds in tension. Science, art, technique, and all the rest live on the tonic atmosphere created by the consciousness of authority. If this is lacking, the European will gradually become degraded. Minds will no longer have the radical faith in themselves which impels them, energetic, daring, tenacious, towards the capture of great new ideas in every order of life. The European will inevitably become a day-to-day man. Incapable of creative, specialized effort, he will always be falling back on yesterday, on custom, on routine. He will turn into a commonplace, conventional, empty creature, like the Greeks of the decadence and those of the Byzantine epoch.”
(Quelle: radical-traditionalism, via alt-pnw)
“Between the true Right and the economic Right there is not only no common identity, but on the contrary, there is a clear antithesis.”
(Quelle: alt-pnw)
“The traditional state is organic, but not totalitarian. It is differentiated and articulated, and admits zones of partial autonomy. It coordinates forces and causes them to participate in a superior unity, while recognizing their liberty. Exactly because it is strong, it does not need to resort to mechanical centralizing … the true state is omnia potens [‘All powerful’], not omnia faciens [‘doing all’].”
(Quelle: alt-pnw)
“I don’t believe that the majority of the European people any more than a majority of the British or the American people are actually suicidal. It’s a great problem for us that we have suicidal elites, suicidal politicians, a suicidal media.”
(Quelle: fukuyamasutra, via alt-pnw)
“All Right-wing discourse is an attempt to build hierarchy, and is an attempt to justify inequality, and is an attempt to exclude by virtue of its hierarchical ordination. That is a totally truthful statement. It’s one of those moments when the outsider sees from the outside the truth of the discourse. Why do Right-wing sensibilities do that? It’s because they want to create order.”
(Quelle: epiphany-rambler, via nineisamagicnumber)
“Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.”
(Quelle: epiphany-rambler, via radical-traditionalism)
“Anders-Sein ist heute nur erlaubt als ein gewähltes, nicht exklusives, nicht schicksalhaftes, sondern konstruiertes und konstruierbares Anders-Sein, das also jederzeit abgelegt, ersetzt oder angenommen werden können soll wie eine Brille, ein Bart, eine schicke Meinung. Jedes ausweglose Anders-Sein hingegen muß - darauf drängt das finale Engagement des Weltinnenraums - dekonstruiert, aufgebrochen oder wenigstens in seinem Ernst relativiert werden.”
(Quelle: schicksalsmensch, via heimatwacht)
