On Identity

Thinking more about the Narrative, that even supposed right-wingers, dissidents and other odd fellows seem to believe in, that white Americans have no historical, racial or cultural identity.  This is false, as I have repeatedly said.  Yankee, for example, was an historical, racial or cultural identity by the 18th century.  As documentary evidence, should you have looked at such, attests.  What then explains this kind of ignorance persisting in our time?

The Narrative has been internalized because of cradle to grave propaganda, even by people who imagine themselves to be enemies of the System.  And that gets you to wondering about identity, what is it, how strong is it, and to what extent is it always a matter of artifice.  In brief, we can see that in our time a Monoculture is imposed, and especially upon those white Americans who used to think of themselves as Yankees.  And this Monoculture has done everything it can to get these people to forget their own history and to believe a fake, self-abnegating Narrative instead.  It has, to date, succeeded in this.

We are supposed to believe from right-wingers that tradition and history is a source of strength and of enduring but we can see in our time that the leftists have none of these things, and see them as heresies to the imperatives of progress.  Which, of course, ceased a long time ago, but leftists remain culturally paramount and the right is unable to mount much more than a token resistance in the cultural sphere, apart from red herrings.  It's fair enough to say that this is because their political elites sell them out, but then one wonders why they have never been replaced with new representatives who more accurately represent their interests (for example, anti-immigration and economic development are their main concerns as of 2024).

Or perhaps they, the political left in the Anglosphere and their toadies abroad, do have those things?  Perhaps there is some truth to the fact that the leftists are descendants, both ideologically and in many cases racially, of the old Yankees who were the "Protestants Abroad" of yesterday.  American Protestants of yesterday felt they had a mission to bring the whole world to civilization.  They were tireless and energetic in pursuing that goal.  And today, we see the leftists behaving in much the same way, albeit maliciously, in tearing down their own country and its history in furtherance of policies guaranteed to end in ruin.  But they do share in common the belief in the absolute truth of their mission and that resistance is to be steamrolled.

They've gotten Americans, even ones who seem to be against them, to believe in and perpetuate their Narrative, and to embrace a false, self-abnegating and detrimental history as their own identity.  They did this through control of media, schools and churches.  But if this process could be done, then it can also be undone.  The wrong and harmful teachings can be replaced with ones that are productive instead.  We've learned from their own methods that identity can be instilled.  But doing so, building something that is more serviceable and more true to our own history, would require an effort that is so far beyond any of our people, who remain mostly passive in the face of certain evil.

We do not need to reinvent the wheel here, as I have said.  If the Israelis could build, for decades, a state in the Middle East based on the most tenuous ties to reality based on an imaginary kingdom in their holy book, then I think whites who are the scions of an America that still existed in living memory can come up with something serviceable.  So what is holding them back?  Well, mainly atomization and lacking the will to do it, it seems to me.  There are still more than enough of them to overcome resistance if that's what it really came to.  But I have noted all my life an unwillingness of white Americans to work in common toward goals and until that changes, I don't think much else will either.