Hard Lands, Hard Peoples
Please read the previous part in the series: Closer to the Primitive
“Better to live in a rugged land and rule than to cultivate rich plains and be a slave.” -Cyrus the Great
Frank Herbert, the author of Dune, was a profound right wing thinker. The Warrior Religion takes much inspiration of his representation of martial peoples in his book. The Sardaukar, the emperor’s personal army, owes its superiority to growing up on a harsh, prison planet where half the population doesn’t make it to adulthood. Being able to survive to adulthood was a mark of distinction for them and solidified a belief that they were chosen. The Fremen people on the other hand, who’s religion was initially based upon a combination of Buddhism and Islam, eventually dropped all notions of pacifism as they tried to survive on a desert planet. A martial win or die mentality took its place. Their religion over time selected for men who were strong and warlike.
In a sci-fi world, Herbert was able to do what’s harder to show in our modern world. The different races had their own planets and the planets sharped how these races developed. The races forced to survive on the harshest of worlds, whatever the reason for them being there, paved the way for martial peoples down the line. This also happened on a smaller scale on the earth, it’s just not as prevalent anymore with mass immigration and technology. The Ancient Greeks were a hard, savage people compared to the effeminate Persian Empire that tried to conquer them. The great Roman Empire was forged by a manly and noble people surrounded on all sides by enemies. The American colonists, forced back into nature in the New World, defeated the British Empire.
The Germans were another example. Though they lost both World Wars, it took the entire world to put down their power. Keep in mind, during the First World War, the allies could not push the Germans back behind German lines. During the Second World War, they were closer to conquering Europe in it’s entirety, seeing the gates of Moscow before the tide turned against them. The Chechens more recently showed the devastating power of martial peoples and it took much for Russia to subdue them. These are the types of peoples Herbert must have drawn upon when he was making his world. Before the floodgates of immigration in recent times, you were born into a distinct people in a distinct land.
Everyone around looked like you. Depending on where you were, your people gained distinct traits from the land. BAP in his Caribbean Rhythms #36 says the British Empire recognized many martial peoples came from the mountains like the Chechens. Perhaps, the Warrior Religion should establish mountain compounds in the United States? Not everyone can live in these harsh environments. What good is it if your people aren’t there anyways? A mannerbund however, can find harsh spot close to them to conquer and make itself master of.
This act of mastering a land can’t be understated. The land can change a people. I believe this happened to the European settlers in the United States as they realized Manifest Destiny in the west. Europeans said WWI Americans were distinct from their European counterparts. Taller and bigger. He who lives a hard life, becomes a hard man. Is this where the saying blood and soil comes from? I would say rather, man mastering space, mastering his conditions, whatever they be, is where the warlike nature comes from.
A Warrior Religion does not just require a harsh land to conquer, it’s people must have a certain character.
It wasn’t just the land that made martial peoples, but also their character. People in harsh lands develop must become extremely clannish to anyone not them. Pierre van den Berghe observed in his studies that ethnicity is the driver of a people. Race is an extension of kin. Men of the same race can have a greater trust and cohesion compared to men of different races forced together for diversity. Men are biologically predisposed to this. Racism is not learned behavior, it’s in the blood. But like almost all things, it can be trained out of the man. You must resist this kind of psychological warfare.
A marker for the mountain peoples is their brutality and ruthlessness. I suspect it’s born from the racial cohesion observed by van den Berghe. In ancient times, people of a different race weren’t even considered human. Maybe this helped to up the brutality and ruthlessness in ancient times, but it’s hard to say that this is still possible today. The world is more connected than ever before and it has a weak stomach. Even as late as World War I, the Germans saw war as brutal and inhumane, so they dedicated their entire war strategy ending the war as quick as possible(even though it did not end quickly, they intended it to be).
This resulted in their hammer-like offensive against France where they send the majority of their forces through Belgium to act as a hammer that comes down hard on the French flank. It was a strategy that failed because the handle of the hammer, the Germans on the border were so successful they advanced when they we’re supposed to either stand their ground or even retreat back a bit. This is important lesson. The Germans lost because of the early victories on the border with France that pushed French back into a position where they could hold back the incoming hammer strike from the flank. This is sort of round about, long winded way to say, you cannot look at war as something disgusting that should be ended quickly or absolutely avoided. Rather, you must do as Heraclitus says and recognize that “War is the Father of all and the King of all.” You must make yourself master of it, accept it for what it is and do everything in your power to ensure the survival of your people.
A martial people let’s their men be who they’re meant to be. The wall these peoples run into is when war changes and they aren’t able to adapt quick enough. World War I was the last example of this. In the beginning of the war, the Germans got so caught up at Belgian forts, machine gun fire left mounds upon mounds of German bodies. The Germans reinforcements would have to climb over a mountain of their own dead just to assault the fort. The Battle of the Frontiers that followed was another one or any of the major battles like the Somme or Verdun. The Generals fought the new material war under the old rules and killed off Europe’s best, perhaps needlessly, because they couldn’t adapt quick enough to the new war.
The same thing happened to the Romans. They lost how many during the Battle of Cannae? What about Teutoburg Forest down the line? These losses add up over time. The more men you lose, the less men you have to run your society the way it must be ran. The less men you have to raise the next generation of men. Lycurgus said it wasn’t a good idea to fight one enemy many times. Eventually, the enemy would figure out how to counter your tactics — as with what happened between the Spartans and Thebans when the Thebans figured out how to beat the Spartan phalanx. One thing that must be instilled in a Warrior Religion is the biological improvement of their people and if their best men are bleeding out, something’s gone wrong.
Finally, you must be proud of who you are and what your people represent.
“This is what the Muslims teach their people. To be totally proud of what you are in your own confirmation of identity. Because identity is divine.” -Jonathan Bowden
In his speech on Nietzsche entitled “Credo,” Jonathan Bowden makes the point that you have to be proud of who you are. A people can’t survive if their sons are taught to hate their own kind. To think themselves evil or the like. You can’t choose how you’re born. You have to understand that your ancestors did what they had to do and if they didn’t, you wouldn’t have been born. They did what they had to do. Under normal circumstances, any man of any race could understand this sentiment.
Whitey however, has been trained to say sorry. To say sorry for things he wasn’t even alive for. He’s been made to feel ashamed for all the great things his people have done. Bowden again tells us that 98% of anything of importance was done by dead White European males. You have a LOT to take pride in and no one has the right to take it from you. That the people we trust to get our kids ready for society teach this sort of racial treachery is demonic. The brainwashing is so deep, many of people don’t even know how to identify.
This must be stopped immediately. Your ancestors didn’t conquer the frontier and recognize Manifest Destiny to allow you to forget who you are. To be ashamed of who you are. What are you ashamed of? The Christian idea of guilt has been a disaster for the human race. I believe much of this GUILT comes from the vast majority of people who don’t know their heritage and I encourage you to correct this. Only the certifiably insane hate their own after learning about them.
Ernst Junger equated bloodlines to trees growing in a forest. Each successive growth going higher and higher. Sometimes trees are felled or bend sideways. You have to take charge of this bloodline. You are it’s steward while you’re alive and part of your duty is preparing your sons to take it over. Imagine this mentality over a whole people and you get a powerfuk people like the Germans. This is how you build martial peoples.