Take to the Frontier

O how the frontier is SACRED to our blood.

The frontier meant something different to our European cousins than it does us. For them, it meant a dividing line. A border. For us, it was the unexplored wilderness. There are many kinds of frontiers, but for now we will discuss a specific kind.

The ancients had different words for what I’m about to describe. The Greks called it the AGON, the struggle, or the contest. The Romans called it DISCRIMEN which meant the dividing line or the point of distinction. The point where you had to prove what you are. This is the frontier we will talk about.

There is always a frontier. It exists even within your own mind.

The frontier is the threshold to the next level. It is where you must cross to continue your journey. To not cross the threshold is to give up. To become stagnant or inert. This would get you accusations of cowardice in Ancient Rome and they would be right to accuse you.

To stay in safety and comfort with the women and children. To not test your idea against nature. This was cowardice, but there is an even greater reason for why the ancients would shame men who refused to be men.

Stagnation equals death.

Stagnation is the signal you send God when you’re ready to die. When God sees stagnation, he begins to sow the seeds of destruction. The people who stagnate become marked for extermination.

God did not create man to be inert. To do nothing. Look at the history of mankind. If God wanted you to stagnate, you’d still be living in caves.

Nature and nature’s God select for those who take to the frontier. Who choose not to remain stagnate. Those who want to win, to find a way against all odds. It’s why man has gone from being a simple caveman to deploying nuclear warheads. The frontier is energy, vitalism, and the man who can harness more energy than his enemies will win.

The frontier is the dividing line between what you are and what you can become. It’s where you enter the contest to prove what you are before God. Men are the R&D arm of mankind and the frontier is where they test their unique idea against God’s law, nature.

When our ancestors gained a foothold in the New World, they were changed by the land. Made distinct from their European cousins. The land always leaves its mark upon man. And the moment they gained a foothold and understood the lesson taught to them by God, they spread like an unquenchable fire across the country. Nothing could stop them but the Pacific Ocean. How many people and empires tried in vain? But no, our ancestors — who were forced back into nature — rediscovered their vital force. God demanded they move forward into the unknown and they did.

They mastered, conquered, and destroyed their way into legend.

Their frontier was as spiritual as it was physical. What sort of mentality would have you to develop to live on the frontier? What would you have to overcome in your mind to do what was necessary to survive and thrive out there? Moderns want to condemn our ancestors for something they perceive as evil without any understanding of what they went through.

We’ve become so disconnected from nature, it’s no wonder we’re seeing the land of our fathers ransacked and decimated by our enemies. The frontier has been closed off. Not just the physical frontier, the unexplored wilderness, but the spiritual frontier. The demand that you push your limits. Go into your own unknown.

This life we’re born into is stagnate. It’s designed to be this way. Your enemies want you inert. Why would you want competition?

The life they design for you is meant to keep you safe and comfortable. They put up annoying roadblocks to anything they don’t want you to pursue. They offer easy roads into the valley where you will never rise from. They dissuade you from anything that helps you master space and gain power.

Sometimes it’s your own kin that tries to dissuade you from the frontier. They see the roadblocks and don’t want to play the game. Don’t want to test themselves against nature. Poor souls!

Where they erect walls and fortresses is where you must attack. If you cannot tear down their walls, look for their weak points, and attack.