Roth Note: This essay explains how our pre-Christian ancestors were ruled. In light of all the impassioned discussion regarding governments, I thought this might prove of interest. I would also point out that the same issue discussed here regarding Europe also applies to America and all the rest of Western Civilization. Don’t let the ‘pagan’ inferences put you off. If you take the time to read the essay you’ll learn something of history even if you don’t like some of the flavor of the content. Sometimes we can find historical truth distasteful, but its still truth.
The decline in Western civilisation is not just due to poor policies.
Poor policies are, of course, symptomatic of the decline, but the fundamental cause is something much deeper: a physical, psychological, and spiritual severance marking the last stage of a very, very long process of historical change.
Where political systems were once organic — arising from a natural order which bound rulers biologically and spiritually to their own people — society is now governed by soulless machinery, ruled from a position of total detachment.
Rule: A Historical Constant and a Biological Necessity
Firstly, we must understand the following phenomenon: a global and historical constant, the requirement of rulers. And by constant I don’t mean they cannot be usurped, but that at least one ruling class must exist at any given time within an organised society.
Throughout time, in all political systems — even under Communism, National Socialism and Liberal Democracy —popular sovereignty has never been present: power structures consistently manifest organized rule over the less organised, whether that’s through the state and its force, e.g., under Communism and National Socialism, or through financial and media tools, as under Liberal Democracy, or perhaps via asset, resource and labour ownership in feudal systems, or by other means.
Surely, if such a thing is constant, then it’s a manifestation of human nature, and exists independently of human will. If we observe closely, rule is discovered at the first minute of human life; while a chick breaks free from its shell and is immediately free, the human infant is born mute and devoid of liberty. Survival is only possible because the infant is received into a social order that provides guardianship. This can also be referred to as protective inequality. And so, authority is no symbol of oppression, but is a necessary condition for a people’s salvation.
And so the issue we face, I believe, is not simply that we are secretly ruled whilst under the false pretences of Democracy’s promise of self-rule (although that is a problem), but that the very nature of our rulers — despite their ideological iterations — has long since transformed from what it was in ancient times into something unfit.
In other words, it has transformed from the organic into the mechanical: an official-administrative facade where rule functions as a machine for doing evil, driven by brute causes rather than the reasoned judgement of an elite bound to its people.
If we are to grasp how organic politics across Europe (and by extension, America) came to be destroyed, then we must first understand a vital property inside these systems, especially relating to who their rulers were:
A group consisting of talented families deriving from the peasantry, physically and spiritually tied to the land, linked together by holy laws, and based on the belief in the reality of hereditary inequality.
Today, a mechanical rule takes its place: an elite abstracted from the nation, and so always at the mercy of outsiders and financial interests, and spiritually severed from the people they rule and the land they rule over.
The pagan Germanic king was someone appointed by the free community and held accountable, through the witenagemot or its non-English moot equivalents. The king remained an equal among equals, where his authority emerged from the self-government of the people rather than existing apart from it. When he failed in his responsibilities, the Germanic freemen did not hesitate at all to remove him instantly.
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