Second, what do you propose with the ethnically non-western Canadians? The Chinese, Indians, and Arabs?
You see, about 70 years ago your solution would have been viable. Figuring out that existential crises back then and rebuilding the civilizational state you propose would have worked. It doesn’t work now. The egg is broken and you can’t put it back again. You can only make an omelette. Based on peace, order, and good government (and not American). But nothing like the old. A good starting point is no later than the late 80s. Right before the unipolar moment dragged us along with it. But anything else won’t work (imho).
It is possible to enact your vision by *enshrining* democracy.
Objective fact: democracy does not scale. The greater the polity, the more your vote is diluted. Democracy at the world government level is utterly meaningless.
Objective fact 2: Wide open borders lead to world government. If one polity opts for Bernietopia, then the residents of Galt's Gulch can send their welfare cases to Bernietopia. Meanwhile, the rich in Bernietopia can move to Galt's Gulch to avoid the progressive taxation.
The ultimate *liberal* vision is thus independent polities where you can *shop* for the government/society you like. That is, you can choose where you want to live but you have to pay. This is the exact opposite of the U.S. system of anti discrimination laws granted to immigrants. Immigrants should prove their worth to the country they move to. (This includes US expats living in Latin America.)
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I propose this alternative to nationalism because my country has long been multi-national. And the areas of the U.S. that peg out the Anglo/White meter are the wokest generally. (Exception: West Virginia.)
If someone is willing to pay to be an American, they are likely to be more Real 'Merican than many native born. Elon Musk comes to mind. The convenience store up the highway which caters to Mexican farm workers also comes to mind. The delightfully sexist beer posters remind me of the 'Merica that I grew up in.
Let people sort themselves up. But preserve home court advantage. The purpose of a polity is to serve its citizens.
“In contrast to America’s screaming fist-fight with its father and subsequent departure from the household in fury and bitterness, Canada patiently waited until mom judged that it was good and ready to move out on its own. “
If Daddy George had listened to the colonies and let them have representation in the house of commons and house of Lords, we would have still been British Citizens, but the King, in his finite wisdom chose to ignore the colonist, and when he didn’t ignore them, he raised taxes on basic goods.
It’s ironic that even though we left home (England,) We’ve flown to father’s defense every time someone attacked him. We did it during two World Wars, during Vietnam, and every time England has called, we’ve helped them.
“When we took Vimy, it wasn’t by blindly rushing the machine-guns. It was when we figured out that if our troops walked just a few steps behind the artillery barrage, the enemy would have to keep their heads down until we were right on top of them ... a tactic that required the sort of precision and cold-blooded disregard of the instant annihilation lying just a few steps away that one might associate more with battalions of T-800s than with men of flesh and blood.”
I’ll be the first to admit that we should have learned that strategy, as it would have saved many lives, but American Soldier have bravado, and that Bravado compels them to sprint to the bunker and toss a grenade through the opening.
Later in War two, we learned to hide behind the Sherman tanks and use their flame throwers to flush out the enemy.
The American Military could learn a few things from the old Canadian military, however, maybe not so much anymore.
The Canadians are our “polite cousins up there,” and if they called for help, we’d be there, just like we were for Daddy.
“ Did you know that multiculturalism was invented, and first adopted as official government policy, in Canada? That happened under Trudeau pere, the Marxist who slithered his way into the Prime Minister’s Office in the 70s, and whose nominal son is now completing the cultural demolition that his father began.
It doesn’t stop there, of course. Those native land acknowledgements you’ve been seeing all over on university campuses? You’re welcome for those. Insanely restrictive tobacco regulations? We’ve been at the forefront. The legalization of Moron Jane? Yep, that’s us. COVID tyranny? No one went harder for longer. Freezing bank accounts to shut down a political protest? You saw it here first.
Not that these things aren’t happening all over the world. They are. But they meet essentially no resistance in Canada, so the Canadian government is able to engage in such social engineering experiments to its heart’s content, working out the kinks in a given tactic or policy before their colleagues in other countries roll out the fresh new horror elsewhere.”
I sometimes wonder if that would be the case, if the Canadians hadn’t given up their weapons. Would they have easily caved under to Castro Jr and his lackeys? It saddens me to watch Canada fall under the sway of Tyranny, because you guys are Americans, you just aren’t United State Americans. We all live on one continent, and should be able to help each other.
“Fealty to a feckless and hollow crown that could not care less about us, or any of its subjects?”
That statement right there is why the colonies left the Empire, we felt that they didn’t care about us, only our riches.
“Transgenderism already seeks to free humanity from the gender binary. In the near future, transhumanism will separate humanity from humanity itself”
That is frightening to a rational person, if we cease being human, what will we become? If we become cyborgs and we are dependent on Musk’s Neurolink, then we might well could become Borgs unwillingly.
“How you gonna keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree?”
You let them grow up and they’ll come full circle. I couldn’t wait to get away from my small town and see the big city. After living there for a few years, I yearned to return to the farm, only by then it was too late, the farm was gone. Now, I have to settle for living in a small town just outside a medium sized city, and to this day, I still yearn to return to that farm.
“As the American dollar is abandoned as a reserve currency and as a standard of global exchange, the power of the American empire that backs up the liberal order will decline rapidly. At the same time, Russia and China are rising fast. With them come India, Iran, Brazil, Turkey ... all of whom are quickly reorienting their trading, diplomatic, and military relationships away from the liberal order, and towards their new Russian and Chinese allies. The multipolar world order is already essentially a fait accompli.”
As a Texan, I would love nothing more than to see my Lone Star State, become once again, the Republic of Texas. The death of the dollar can’t come fast enough, for with it would die the Empire of the rainbow brigade. Maybe then, we could regain our sanity.
As a Texan, I despise the NATO led war on Russia, since all it took was not to approach Ukraine and offer it a chance to join the rainbow brigade.
Russia has already escaped it’s madness of communism, and they deserve the right to grow.
“When the globalist order has collapsed, as is already happening, America will be left dazed and confused. Universal repudiation of liberalism’s universal values repudiates their universality. This is not something the American political establishment, including the satraps governing their vassal states, are equipped to understand.”
America is already dazed and confused, and the faster the center of the country lets the coastal elites drown in their stupidity, the better. The American Congress and Executive only knows one thing, and that’s how to bow down to the people who pay to keep them in office. Like King George, they no longer care for their people and we are in bad need of another revolution.
“
The Canadian political tradition has nothing to do with liberalism. Canada was born to protect traditionalism on the frontier, to carry the old world into the new, not to tear down what came before but rather to build on top of it, grow it, elaborate it. It is precisely this primacy of organic tradition that is the central organizing principle and raison d’etre of the civilization-state.”
Texas and Canada have much in common. We were both the frontier and unlike the rest of the States, we have not forgotten about it. In many ways, we are still the frontier. We have to deal with the stupidity of the rest of country. Where they see immigrant as a good thing, we have to deal with the fall out of rape, cartel violence, and illegal immigrants driving drunk and killing our children. Like Canada, we are friendly and wave at our neighbors when we meet them on the road.
“Some might read this and imagine I advocate for some form of authoritarian totalitarianism, a rigid tradition that allows no change. Chesterton’s fence, however, need not be a cage.”
Not at all, I see it as a confederation of like-minded people, from Canada’s First people to the Tribal Nations in the south to the Free people that coud result if the Central government falls apart. I can see a Nation where we all agree to respect one another and fall back on the mixed traditions of our ancestors. In our case, Britain, France, and Germany.
“Canada certainly cannot impose traditionalism on the wider Anglosphere. It is too small. It must teach by example, and before it can do that it must first remember itself.”
Hear, Hear! I agree fully. We must remember who we are before we can help others remember who they were.
“In the world I see, the West has rid itself entirely of its universalist pretensions. It no longer seeks to impose its values on the world, for it recognizes that what works for Westmen does not necessarily work for others; and while this does not bring peace, for there will always be friction with rivals, we are at least spared the guarantee of war and the infamy of tyrannical ideological bigotry. Likewise, the renewed West no longer assumes that its ways can be adopted by anyone who comes, and therefore does not pretend that it can continue itself with other peoples’ babies.”
Again Agreed. But I would like to see those new comers respect those that are already here, and at least adopt the “Life, liberty, property,” attitude that built the country, both countries. To do that, we have to stop killing our own babies and mutilating our children. We have to stop going after riches and settle for living with what we can make ourselves.
I would like very much to agree with this thesis, however I don't think it can work. Anglo High-Toryism emerged among a particular people in a unique place and time. It was driven by a specific sector of society: the highly educated landless gentry, who so often took up positions of authority in the military, the university, the Church of England, and the House of Commons. Originally of Norman stock, they combined with ascendant sectors of the Anglo-Saxon yeomanry, who through their intelligence and personality could take advantage of England's early meritocracy. Unlike the landed aristocracy, who often remained Roman Catholic and Cavalier, this class encouraged a broad church Anglicanism that accommodated more puritan sensibilities - specifically the emphasis on morality and a degree of social solidarity, and played a key role in Cromwell's conquest of Ireland. Together with more adventurous sections of the middle and working classes, along with a strong contingent of Scotch, Irish, and Welsh (who could escape the prejudices of the home islands overseas) they were the empire builders and settlers of the Anglosphere.
Up until the 1980s, this class could be distinguished by their RP accent, which was very different from the upper class drawl and shared unifying features across Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the African colonies.
They have largely ceased to exist. Following the social revolutions of the 1960s, their more successful members assimilated into the upper section of the elite, while the rest became absorbed into the swelling modern middle class, and were then Americanised. RP no longer exists, replaced first by 'mockney' in England, broader American pronunciation in Canada, and a more rugged Australian delivery in the Pacific, all of which are now giving way to a feminised globalist uptalk.
Markers of membership (intellectualism, High Church Anglicanism, fluency in Latin and Greek) are now actively discouraged and disparaged in favour of the new status symbols (progressivism, claims to working class ancestry, material wealth, and 'cool').
To create a High Tory Anglo Civilisation, you would first have to resuscitate this class. I have no idea how you'd go about this, especially when Christianity was always so central to their worldview, while the base metal from which this alloy was first forged is now irreversibly contaminated by mass immigration.
It seems to me that an ethnostate is far more feasible (following a period of conflict and ethnogenesis), considering that the overwhelming force of globalist liberal internationalism will soon collapse under the weight of its own contradictions, as the American Empire recedes. Indeed, I'd place more hope in the Anglo nations finding their own divergent ways, rather than attempting anything larger scale involving the United States. Regardless, the future intellectual elites of Canada and Australia will be inescapably Hapa.
Have you read Zeihan's book, by the way? I'm wondering what you think about his predictions re Russia and China. It seems like the Duginites may have to eat their own words.
Apr 27, 2023·edited Apr 27, 2023Liked by John Carter
Dude you are delusional about Russia and China. West has its share of problems. But Russia is not even a proper state( its a mafia racket). And China is... its a communist digital control state. Where party nomenclature has all power.
Personally believe future lies in " Network States". Based on free association of like minded individuals. Going back to the past never works. Only going forward
This history is my history. My fathers family is of the Metis, they were in Quebec by 1795. The name of the man who landed from France was Pierre Sauriol dit Sansoucy; 'to say you are without a care'. I am not exactly sure why he came to Canada, but the nom de guerre (dit Sansoucy) could imply that like many he was there in a military capacity, ie to fight 'savages'. Instead, or in addition to that, he seems to have married into them. I wish I knew more details, though the family histories are documented the details always get lost. I have an innate dislike of churches and religions, and all I can think is that I carry the scars of folks who were forced to take up the 'mantle of God' or else. I do credit this feeling with also keeping me from getting the jab, like my cells knew it was about death. I am currently reading the book Stringing Rosaries, by Denise Lajimodiere, which consists of interveiws of American boarding school survivors. The book is presented in a very sensitive and humane fashion, though the subject matter is of course brutal. Many survivors of these schools have never told their families what was done to them there, there is a lot of shame about it. Few Americans even know it happened here, and that essentially all the churches (Methodists, Lutherans, Catholics, etc.) ran boarding schools.
You are a brave man, John, tackling so many sensitive, even incendiary, themes in a single article.
You are spot on in your suspicion that a post-imperial America will intensify, rather than break from, its ideological fixations.
I suspect that the common sense Anglo ethnonationalism to which you incline has great appeal within many corners of Greater Anglostan (the Anglosphere), but I think that the fix is well and truly in on that one. The Anglosphere idea is being pushed very hard at the top. Extremely so. IMHO this is a Trojan horse for a series of industrial and geopolitical agendas that are unrelated to the wellbeing or survival of any ethnos.
Many within the Australian political class are attracted to the US, UK, Canada thing (Five Eyes, AUKUS) because they are geopolitically and industrially illiterate and are easily played. They are being tempted with promises of reindustrialization, infrastructure spending, defence co-operation. These are all separate strands of a wider, largely concealed, project that started to come into view a decade ago, well before Trump. Think supply chains, social stability and the economic foundations of a slimmed down imperial project. The economic consensus at the top has been discretely shifting. It is a phenomenally complex subject and largely undiscussed in public. I once had the opportunity to see some aspects of this taking shape.
Long term planning for close co-operation across jurisdiction is way older than most people realise. Key ideas developed pre-WW1. The first steps to planning on a grand scale (think grossraum) was in WW1 and Karl Schmitt was not involved in the least. These ideas were later further developed in WW2 on both sides. Another great iteration of planning is well underway. The Great Reset is part of it, possibly a lucrative misdirection, but the main stuff is not Schwabian b.s. The Lizard People are curating other eggs.
I'd bet that the whole idea of a "civilization state" is being broadcast to market regional iterations of what is being cooked up. Not that it is a bad idea, just that caution (and more caution) is needed.
I'd suggest that you glance at the work of the late Panagiotis Kondylis, one of the very few political theorists whose head is not incorporated per rectum.
Before I read on consider that Canada is in America, so Canadians are Americans (too). Also, fighting the soil is stupid, better to work with it as it will last longer along with the identity of its protectors.
Increasing numbers of people are coming for Canada as it still has resources to exploit. When there is nothing left they will all leave.
Apr 27, 2023·edited Apr 27, 2023Liked by John Carter
A tribute like no other! 🔥 The meticulous history lesson is real impressive, more so owing to vibrant retelling. To complete the feat, let the hearts be gone a-meltin' --> youtu.be/6HT0oHsJX7s
Remember our telegram to-n-fro? I’m always amazed to run headlong into kinda ‘your obvs doesn’t equal mine’ 😁 Not a shadow of doubt entered my mind you were writing about the sibylline aspect of Art.
Very well thought through and well written. Christendom died before Novalis though so the civilizational state lacks a true center other than plunder. The security of the Civilizational populace within civilizational boundary is sacrificed to greed. Berdyaev writes, “More keenly than ever I feel that night and shadow are descending on the world, just as was the case at the beginning of the Middle Ages, before the medieval Renaissance.” Many keen-sighted people recognize the situation, Berdyaev remarks, but few of them have grasped its essence. “In reality what is happening is something even deeper… a judgment upon not one epoch in history, but upon history itself.” The times, Berdyaev asserts, choosing his key term with special care, qualify as “apocalyptic.”
This unveiling corresponds not merely to “a revelation of the end of the world”; rather it corresponds to “a revelation of the inner events of history, of the internal judgment upon history itself.” Because “man’s existence in this world is historical,” the disintegration of history involves the disintegration both of man and culture. “The things man has planned do not come to pass, and the true significance of what takes place escapes man’s comprehension.”
Excellent article, I beg to disagree on your litterary point, because "Man Versus nature" or "man Vs Cosmos" make for a perfect litterary inspiration...especially when you include spatial exploration...
First, thank you.
Second, what do you propose with the ethnically non-western Canadians? The Chinese, Indians, and Arabs?
You see, about 70 years ago your solution would have been viable. Figuring out that existential crises back then and rebuilding the civilizational state you propose would have worked. It doesn’t work now. The egg is broken and you can’t put it back again. You can only make an omelette. Based on peace, order, and good government (and not American). But nothing like the old. A good starting point is no later than the late 80s. Right before the unipolar moment dragged us along with it. But anything else won’t work (imho).
It is possible to enact your vision by *enshrining* democracy.
Objective fact: democracy does not scale. The greater the polity, the more your vote is diluted. Democracy at the world government level is utterly meaningless.
Objective fact 2: Wide open borders lead to world government. If one polity opts for Bernietopia, then the residents of Galt's Gulch can send their welfare cases to Bernietopia. Meanwhile, the rich in Bernietopia can move to Galt's Gulch to avoid the progressive taxation.
The ultimate *liberal* vision is thus independent polities where you can *shop* for the government/society you like. That is, you can choose where you want to live but you have to pay. This is the exact opposite of the U.S. system of anti discrimination laws granted to immigrants. Immigrants should prove their worth to the country they move to. (This includes US expats living in Latin America.)
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I propose this alternative to nationalism because my country has long been multi-national. And the areas of the U.S. that peg out the Anglo/White meter are the wokest generally. (Exception: West Virginia.)
If someone is willing to pay to be an American, they are likely to be more Real 'Merican than many native born. Elon Musk comes to mind. The convenience store up the highway which caters to Mexican farm workers also comes to mind. The delightfully sexist beer posters remind me of the 'Merica that I grew up in.
Let people sort themselves up. But preserve home court advantage. The purpose of a polity is to serve its citizens.
Warning! incoming wall of text. lol.....
“In contrast to America’s screaming fist-fight with its father and subsequent departure from the household in fury and bitterness, Canada patiently waited until mom judged that it was good and ready to move out on its own. “
If Daddy George had listened to the colonies and let them have representation in the house of commons and house of Lords, we would have still been British Citizens, but the King, in his finite wisdom chose to ignore the colonist, and when he didn’t ignore them, he raised taxes on basic goods.
It’s ironic that even though we left home (England,) We’ve flown to father’s defense every time someone attacked him. We did it during two World Wars, during Vietnam, and every time England has called, we’ve helped them.
“When we took Vimy, it wasn’t by blindly rushing the machine-guns. It was when we figured out that if our troops walked just a few steps behind the artillery barrage, the enemy would have to keep their heads down until we were right on top of them ... a tactic that required the sort of precision and cold-blooded disregard of the instant annihilation lying just a few steps away that one might associate more with battalions of T-800s than with men of flesh and blood.”
I’ll be the first to admit that we should have learned that strategy, as it would have saved many lives, but American Soldier have bravado, and that Bravado compels them to sprint to the bunker and toss a grenade through the opening.
Later in War two, we learned to hide behind the Sherman tanks and use their flame throwers to flush out the enemy.
The American Military could learn a few things from the old Canadian military, however, maybe not so much anymore.
The Canadians are our “polite cousins up there,” and if they called for help, we’d be there, just like we were for Daddy.
“ Did you know that multiculturalism was invented, and first adopted as official government policy, in Canada? That happened under Trudeau pere, the Marxist who slithered his way into the Prime Minister’s Office in the 70s, and whose nominal son is now completing the cultural demolition that his father began.
It doesn’t stop there, of course. Those native land acknowledgements you’ve been seeing all over on university campuses? You’re welcome for those. Insanely restrictive tobacco regulations? We’ve been at the forefront. The legalization of Moron Jane? Yep, that’s us. COVID tyranny? No one went harder for longer. Freezing bank accounts to shut down a political protest? You saw it here first.
Not that these things aren’t happening all over the world. They are. But they meet essentially no resistance in Canada, so the Canadian government is able to engage in such social engineering experiments to its heart’s content, working out the kinks in a given tactic or policy before their colleagues in other countries roll out the fresh new horror elsewhere.”
I sometimes wonder if that would be the case, if the Canadians hadn’t given up their weapons. Would they have easily caved under to Castro Jr and his lackeys? It saddens me to watch Canada fall under the sway of Tyranny, because you guys are Americans, you just aren’t United State Americans. We all live on one continent, and should be able to help each other.
“Fealty to a feckless and hollow crown that could not care less about us, or any of its subjects?”
That statement right there is why the colonies left the Empire, we felt that they didn’t care about us, only our riches.
“Transgenderism already seeks to free humanity from the gender binary. In the near future, transhumanism will separate humanity from humanity itself”
That is frightening to a rational person, if we cease being human, what will we become? If we become cyborgs and we are dependent on Musk’s Neurolink, then we might well could become Borgs unwillingly.
“How you gonna keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree?”
You let them grow up and they’ll come full circle. I couldn’t wait to get away from my small town and see the big city. After living there for a few years, I yearned to return to the farm, only by then it was too late, the farm was gone. Now, I have to settle for living in a small town just outside a medium sized city, and to this day, I still yearn to return to that farm.
“As the American dollar is abandoned as a reserve currency and as a standard of global exchange, the power of the American empire that backs up the liberal order will decline rapidly. At the same time, Russia and China are rising fast. With them come India, Iran, Brazil, Turkey ... all of whom are quickly reorienting their trading, diplomatic, and military relationships away from the liberal order, and towards their new Russian and Chinese allies. The multipolar world order is already essentially a fait accompli.”
As a Texan, I would love nothing more than to see my Lone Star State, become once again, the Republic of Texas. The death of the dollar can’t come fast enough, for with it would die the Empire of the rainbow brigade. Maybe then, we could regain our sanity.
As a Texan, I despise the NATO led war on Russia, since all it took was not to approach Ukraine and offer it a chance to join the rainbow brigade.
Russia has already escaped it’s madness of communism, and they deserve the right to grow.
“When the globalist order has collapsed, as is already happening, America will be left dazed and confused. Universal repudiation of liberalism’s universal values repudiates their universality. This is not something the American political establishment, including the satraps governing their vassal states, are equipped to understand.”
America is already dazed and confused, and the faster the center of the country lets the coastal elites drown in their stupidity, the better. The American Congress and Executive only knows one thing, and that’s how to bow down to the people who pay to keep them in office. Like King George, they no longer care for their people and we are in bad need of another revolution.
“
The Canadian political tradition has nothing to do with liberalism. Canada was born to protect traditionalism on the frontier, to carry the old world into the new, not to tear down what came before but rather to build on top of it, grow it, elaborate it. It is precisely this primacy of organic tradition that is the central organizing principle and raison d’etre of the civilization-state.”
Texas and Canada have much in common. We were both the frontier and unlike the rest of the States, we have not forgotten about it. In many ways, we are still the frontier. We have to deal with the stupidity of the rest of country. Where they see immigrant as a good thing, we have to deal with the fall out of rape, cartel violence, and illegal immigrants driving drunk and killing our children. Like Canada, we are friendly and wave at our neighbors when we meet them on the road.
“Some might read this and imagine I advocate for some form of authoritarian totalitarianism, a rigid tradition that allows no change. Chesterton’s fence, however, need not be a cage.”
Not at all, I see it as a confederation of like-minded people, from Canada’s First people to the Tribal Nations in the south to the Free people that coud result if the Central government falls apart. I can see a Nation where we all agree to respect one another and fall back on the mixed traditions of our ancestors. In our case, Britain, France, and Germany.
“Canada certainly cannot impose traditionalism on the wider Anglosphere. It is too small. It must teach by example, and before it can do that it must first remember itself.”
Hear, Hear! I agree fully. We must remember who we are before we can help others remember who they were.
“In the world I see, the West has rid itself entirely of its universalist pretensions. It no longer seeks to impose its values on the world, for it recognizes that what works for Westmen does not necessarily work for others; and while this does not bring peace, for there will always be friction with rivals, we are at least spared the guarantee of war and the infamy of tyrannical ideological bigotry. Likewise, the renewed West no longer assumes that its ways can be adopted by anyone who comes, and therefore does not pretend that it can continue itself with other peoples’ babies.”
Again Agreed. But I would like to see those new comers respect those that are already here, and at least adopt the “Life, liberty, property,” attitude that built the country, both countries. To do that, we have to stop killing our own babies and mutilating our children. We have to stop going after riches and settle for living with what we can make ourselves.
I would like very much to agree with this thesis, however I don't think it can work. Anglo High-Toryism emerged among a particular people in a unique place and time. It was driven by a specific sector of society: the highly educated landless gentry, who so often took up positions of authority in the military, the university, the Church of England, and the House of Commons. Originally of Norman stock, they combined with ascendant sectors of the Anglo-Saxon yeomanry, who through their intelligence and personality could take advantage of England's early meritocracy. Unlike the landed aristocracy, who often remained Roman Catholic and Cavalier, this class encouraged a broad church Anglicanism that accommodated more puritan sensibilities - specifically the emphasis on morality and a degree of social solidarity, and played a key role in Cromwell's conquest of Ireland. Together with more adventurous sections of the middle and working classes, along with a strong contingent of Scotch, Irish, and Welsh (who could escape the prejudices of the home islands overseas) they were the empire builders and settlers of the Anglosphere.
Up until the 1980s, this class could be distinguished by their RP accent, which was very different from the upper class drawl and shared unifying features across Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the African colonies.
They have largely ceased to exist. Following the social revolutions of the 1960s, their more successful members assimilated into the upper section of the elite, while the rest became absorbed into the swelling modern middle class, and were then Americanised. RP no longer exists, replaced first by 'mockney' in England, broader American pronunciation in Canada, and a more rugged Australian delivery in the Pacific, all of which are now giving way to a feminised globalist uptalk.
Markers of membership (intellectualism, High Church Anglicanism, fluency in Latin and Greek) are now actively discouraged and disparaged in favour of the new status symbols (progressivism, claims to working class ancestry, material wealth, and 'cool').
To create a High Tory Anglo Civilisation, you would first have to resuscitate this class. I have no idea how you'd go about this, especially when Christianity was always so central to their worldview, while the base metal from which this alloy was first forged is now irreversibly contaminated by mass immigration.
It seems to me that an ethnostate is far more feasible (following a period of conflict and ethnogenesis), considering that the overwhelming force of globalist liberal internationalism will soon collapse under the weight of its own contradictions, as the American Empire recedes. Indeed, I'd place more hope in the Anglo nations finding their own divergent ways, rather than attempting anything larger scale involving the United States. Regardless, the future intellectual elites of Canada and Australia will be inescapably Hapa.
Have you read Zeihan's book, by the way? I'm wondering what you think about his predictions re Russia and China. It seems like the Duginites may have to eat their own words.
Dude you are delusional about Russia and China. West has its share of problems. But Russia is not even a proper state( its a mafia racket). And China is... its a communist digital control state. Where party nomenclature has all power.
Personally believe future lies in " Network States". Based on free association of like minded individuals. Going back to the past never works. Only going forward
Interesting, informative , and brave take on American and World bob sled ride.
This history is my history. My fathers family is of the Metis, they were in Quebec by 1795. The name of the man who landed from France was Pierre Sauriol dit Sansoucy; 'to say you are without a care'. I am not exactly sure why he came to Canada, but the nom de guerre (dit Sansoucy) could imply that like many he was there in a military capacity, ie to fight 'savages'. Instead, or in addition to that, he seems to have married into them. I wish I knew more details, though the family histories are documented the details always get lost. I have an innate dislike of churches and religions, and all I can think is that I carry the scars of folks who were forced to take up the 'mantle of God' or else. I do credit this feeling with also keeping me from getting the jab, like my cells knew it was about death. I am currently reading the book Stringing Rosaries, by Denise Lajimodiere, which consists of interveiws of American boarding school survivors. The book is presented in a very sensitive and humane fashion, though the subject matter is of course brutal. Many survivors of these schools have never told their families what was done to them there, there is a lot of shame about it. Few Americans even know it happened here, and that essentially all the churches (Methodists, Lutherans, Catholics, etc.) ran boarding schools.
You are a brave man, John, tackling so many sensitive, even incendiary, themes in a single article.
You are spot on in your suspicion that a post-imperial America will intensify, rather than break from, its ideological fixations.
I suspect that the common sense Anglo ethnonationalism to which you incline has great appeal within many corners of Greater Anglostan (the Anglosphere), but I think that the fix is well and truly in on that one. The Anglosphere idea is being pushed very hard at the top. Extremely so. IMHO this is a Trojan horse for a series of industrial and geopolitical agendas that are unrelated to the wellbeing or survival of any ethnos.
Many within the Australian political class are attracted to the US, UK, Canada thing (Five Eyes, AUKUS) because they are geopolitically and industrially illiterate and are easily played. They are being tempted with promises of reindustrialization, infrastructure spending, defence co-operation. These are all separate strands of a wider, largely concealed, project that started to come into view a decade ago, well before Trump. Think supply chains, social stability and the economic foundations of a slimmed down imperial project. The economic consensus at the top has been discretely shifting. It is a phenomenally complex subject and largely undiscussed in public. I once had the opportunity to see some aspects of this taking shape.
Long term planning for close co-operation across jurisdiction is way older than most people realise. Key ideas developed pre-WW1. The first steps to planning on a grand scale (think grossraum) was in WW1 and Karl Schmitt was not involved in the least. These ideas were later further developed in WW2 on both sides. Another great iteration of planning is well underway. The Great Reset is part of it, possibly a lucrative misdirection, but the main stuff is not Schwabian b.s. The Lizard People are curating other eggs.
I'd bet that the whole idea of a "civilization state" is being broadcast to market regional iterations of what is being cooked up. Not that it is a bad idea, just that caution (and more caution) is needed.
I'd suggest that you glance at the work of the late Panagiotis Kondylis, one of the very few political theorists whose head is not incorporated per rectum.
https://ia600902.us.archive.org/14/items/www.panagiotiskondylis.com/Planetary%20Politics%20after%20the%20Cold%20War%20%28Planetarische%20Politik%20nach%20dem%20Kalten%20Krieg%29%20by%20Panagiotis%20Kondylis%20%28
Before I read on consider that Canada is in America, so Canadians are Americans (too). Also, fighting the soil is stupid, better to work with it as it will last longer along with the identity of its protectors.
Increasing numbers of people are coming for Canada as it still has resources to exploit. When there is nothing left they will all leave.
A tribute like no other! 🔥 The meticulous history lesson is real impressive, more so owing to vibrant retelling. To complete the feat, let the hearts be gone a-meltin' --> youtu.be/6HT0oHsJX7s
Remember our telegram to-n-fro? I’m always amazed to run headlong into kinda ‘your obvs doesn’t equal mine’ 😁 Not a shadow of doubt entered my mind you were writing about the sibylline aspect of Art.
Nationless state or stateless nation: be sure to choose wisely 🙂 history.howstuffworks.com/world-history/people-groups-with-no-homelands.htm#page-wrap1. OT fun fact: Karen ppl is a thing; some ~5K of ‘em even found their home in Canada.
PS 💬 the Métis,[...] (despite the fact that the French manifestly predated their existence) 👌
Very well thought through and well written. Christendom died before Novalis though so the civilizational state lacks a true center other than plunder. The security of the Civilizational populace within civilizational boundary is sacrificed to greed. Berdyaev writes, “More keenly than ever I feel that night and shadow are descending on the world, just as was the case at the beginning of the Middle Ages, before the medieval Renaissance.” Many keen-sighted people recognize the situation, Berdyaev remarks, but few of them have grasped its essence. “In reality what is happening is something even deeper… a judgment upon not one epoch in history, but upon history itself.” The times, Berdyaev asserts, choosing his key term with special care, qualify as “apocalyptic.”
This unveiling corresponds not merely to “a revelation of the end of the world”; rather it corresponds to “a revelation of the inner events of history, of the internal judgment upon history itself.” Because “man’s existence in this world is historical,” the disintegration of history involves the disintegration both of man and culture. “The things man has planned do not come to pass, and the true significance of what takes place escapes man’s comprehension.”
Lifted my spirits! A vision I can get behind.
Excellent article, I beg to disagree on your litterary point, because "Man Versus nature" or "man Vs Cosmos" make for a perfect litterary inspiration...especially when you include spatial exploration...
You forgot to include Canada's greatest literary contribution about being a bearsexual: Bear
Fantastic!
A variation on the Canadian infantry cap badge would be an appropriate replacement for the 'stupid leaf'. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f0/1c/07/f01c072021ad3d3a2716f51ad32a1ac9.jpg