Signs of a Dying Empire

[Eric the Green]

(05-06-2022, 02:00 AM)JasonBlack Wrote: I agree that white nationalism is silly, but that isn't the point. "But white nationalism!" simply isn't a satisfactory response to give whenever someone says "people should be more proud of their country". We're still talking around the basic point that America needs more strength, more vitality, more morale. It's sad that such basic ideas have become so politicized, seen as some passing interest of right wing males, rather than traits that people and societies alike need in every age. 

The hero's journey is about facing fear and gaining confidence by overcoming a trial. We aren't going to solve this with more "compassion", more "awareness", or anything like that. 

It's a concept so simple and fundamental that, at times, it's difficult to articulate. Frankly, all the compassion, all the resources, all the technology....none of that is going to help us unless we stop being so bloody defeatist and cynical. We already readily recognize "black people need black pride because they have to overcome hardship in life", "gay people need gay pride because of the challenges they face"....why is this any different for countries? Why does any kind of national pride always have to conjure up images of fascism, Nazis, death camps or racial oppression? 


We need more of this:

We needed to take away his gun from his cold, dead hands! And from all his followers!

The hero's journey involves learning virtues. There are many versions of the hero's journey. It certainly involves learning compassion, and certainly involves learning courage.

Nationalism seems to be related to Nazism. That's why they are called nationalist. It's in their name. White nationalists are folks interested in white power and repressing other people. The notion of "nation" can be positive or negative, depending on the context. The only valid meaning for today is a nation that's part of a world federation. NATO and the UN are steps on the way to this future federation. "Nation" now means only oppression and prejudice unless it is conceived as part of the developing world federation and its international laws. Such is the primary meaning of our times in history. We are a world civilization in fact. Institutions will take some time to catch up to this reality and adjust to it, and organize it properly. Every human today is a citizen of the world. We don't want a monolithic world government, though. There will always be divisions and localities within this government. Nation is one of those levels of sovereignty.

When Uranus conjoins Neptune again, as it did in circa 1648, circa 1815, and circa 1990, this world federation will be more thoroughly organized. That will come in the early and middle 2160s. History, and my own predictive track record including my published and verifiable predictions for circa 1990 that came true, provide confirmation of this prediction, which will not come true in our lifetimes, but perhaps for our reincarnated selves, if we can navigate through the difficult times ahead of us now. We have not yet made this possible. One senator and a few dictators and nationalists are in the way.

The USA believes in liberty. Yet it has always been a struggle to realize this liberty in fact. It is no better than other nations; it is not the exceptional nation. But it is a leader of The West, which in its extended meaning is organized according to ideals and laws of greater liberty than those not within the orbit of The West. More liberty, as it exists in The West, is something that all peoples want, and people power movements all over the world since the sixties demonstrate this desire among all peoples. This liberty is not fully realized until it also is extended to equality and fraternity, and that means the mixed economy that includes socialism, and the Green New Deal and fraternity among all peoples-- all one people on one restored Earth. The French Revolution was as much or more the driver of this world Revolution than the American Revolution or the English Revolution, since it contained all three revolutions in its creed and seed.