The Paris Hilton Syndrome - Part 6
by Welf Herfurth
(Earlier parts of this series can be found under Related Items below)
6. The Traditionalist rebellion
Fascism, and much of post-war nationalism, has always promulgated the one metaphysical type: the æ…¼eroic? olar?type of spirituality. In Evola writing, the heroic spiritual type as an attempt to regain the primordial Uranian and solar spirituality, lost after the successive waves of distortions and deviations of previous epochs. The heroic epics of Hercules, Gilgamesh and others describe spiritual journeys ?not mere adventures ?which are quests for that lost, solar spirituality. It is masculine ?Evola uses the term virile to describe it ?but not the coarse, phallic masculinity of the Titanic type.
Now, this brand of metaphysics is bound to appeal to men in the current age, which is very much a feminised age. I am not talking here of the proliferation of Amazonianism in pop culture, or Aphroditism, etc., but in the structure of our economy itself.
I once read a statistic (which I am unfortunately able to find again and reproduce here) that most of the hundreds of thousands of jobs created in Australia in the last ten or so years have gone to women. Anecdotally, this seems to be the case: in our everyday dealings with the banks, the electricity companies, government agencies like the educational institutions, the hospitals, social security, the Road Traffic Authority and the like, are staffed by young (20s, 30s) white-collar women, who are (again, statistically) more likely than not to be single. Our lives, in the West, have become bureaucratised, thanks to the proliferation of government red tape, rules and regulations for everything, and most of the bureaucrats one encounters in one daily dealings with the banks, government institutions and the like, are, more often than not, from this class of young white-collar women.
So men are bound to encounter æ…´ureaucrats?of this type, again and again ?dealing with bureaucracy is inevitable in today world ?and certainly, this must have a demasculinising effect on men over the long term, especially given that our conventional morality tells us that it is a man responsibility (and a man alone) to support his wife and his children. That, of course, has changed, with the rise of the single-parent household: but the perception that a man has these moral responsibilities still lingers, and certainly, I know many men still have them. And the question is whether having households without fathers ?in Australia, we have 750,000 people on sole parent benefit, the majority of them being female sole parents ?is, socially, good or not. I myself would say no.
So why are there so many women in employment? The answer is, economics ?or at least, the economics of the post-1970s period. The inflation of the 1970s - following the break-up of the Bretton Woods system of the gold standard and fixed exchange rates ?led to an economic deterioration which was so widespread, and so ruinous, that men were unable to support their wives and children on one wage, as they did in the 1950s and 1960s. So women were forced to go out and work.
The solution to the problem is, of course, economic. In economist jargon, we need to increase the capital-labour ratio in favour of labour: that is, capital, invested in the market, has to become plentiful in comparison to labour. A bidding war for workers, between rival capitalists, will begin, and wages will go up ?which will enable men to support wives and children on one income again. (That is, of course, that single income will be enough to pay for high house prices (for houses located near the city centres) and the modern consumerist lifestyle. Some would say no, and that a two-income household is necessary to meet such demands).
But, of course, such a solution is nowhere insight, especially given that incompetents today are in charge of running the economies of the West, as evinced by declining share market values, inflation, high interest rates and all the other ugly economic phenomena.
In the meantime, until the economy is fixed once and for all (and I myself am convinced that, under the system of liberal democracy, the economy will never be fixed, i.e., it will never benefit the good of the wider population but only to big business and its shareholders). Instead of purely economic solutions, we need nationalism of the kind described above ?one that resurrects the imperial, solar and 憊irile?virtues, in defiance of the present depraved age of Aphroditism, Amazonianism and all the anti-Traditionalist spiritualities. Nationalism becomes an act of rebellion.
Subconsciously, I think, the masses are Traditionalist: the olar?virtues are what the men and women of the West want. So we nationalists must be prepared to give æ…¼eroism? in Evola sense, to them.
–Welf Herfurth is a political activist who lives in Sydney / Australia. He was born and raised in Germany. He can be contacted on:
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