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Lars von Braunreiter's avatar

This is an incredibly important topic, and I hope you and others will continue to write on it.

In my opinion, the primary task is to reinvent a Nobility or Patrician class- one that is in touch with the artistic and aristocratic traditions of their people/nation as much as they are with the physical and martial disciplines.

We should not arm a people who are not prepared to understand and defend a proper cultural archetype.

As Arthur Powell says below, Americans have no lack of interest in firearms, combat sports, outdoor skills, etc. What we do lack is the characteristic gracefulness, on many levels, that comes with the balance of cultivating a solid intellect as well as physical prowess.

In other words, I will never follow any man into battle who cannot recite poetry, who is unfamiliar with Western Canon and our traditional composers, who lacks a respect for the natural world and our resources and ecosystem, who has not rejected the conventional food industry, and so on.

Someday I’d like to elaborate more on this.

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Not everyone is able to be a warrior - the caste is largely broken in our lineage and fragments arise. Warrior castes and sects might arise but as the men today the best way to do that is to lay the groundwork around martial culture.

America is RICH in martial culture - wrestling is still a huge sport in many places. BJJ is growing in popularity, MMA continues to grow as well. We also have strong shooting cultures - competitive shooting suffers from too many fatties with good shooting skills and not enough others but it exists. This competitive realm of violence.

There are more questions than I have answers...

How do you prevent these martially inclined men from becoming co-opted by the Regime as cops and soldiers?

How do you get them through an increasingly pacified world where violence in society is cracked down upon ruthlessly from a political angle (leftists can commit all the violence, but rightists can't)?

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