Crutchfield
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 13 11:39:38 CDT 2001
>From: calbert at tiac.net
>I'm tellin ya, you're gonna wind up with Spengler and "ceasarism".....
And even better:
http://www.pagesz.net/~stevek/europe/spengler.html
The Celtic-German "race" has the strongest will-power the world has ever
seen. But this "I will", "I will!" -- which fills the Faustian soul to the
brim, makes up the ultimate meaning of its existence and prevails in every
expression of Faustian culture in thought and deed, in creative act and
demeanor -- awakens consciousness of the total isolation of the Self in
infinite space. Will and loneliness are at bottom the same. . . .
If anything in the world is individualism, it is this defiance of the
individual towards the whole world, his knowledge of his own indestructible
will, the pleasure he takes in irreversible decisions, and the love of fate
even in the moment when he goes under because of them. To submit out of free
will is Prussian. The value of the sacrifice lies in its difficulty. He who
has no Self to sacrifice should not talk of loyalty. . . . Genuine --
genuinely Prussian -- loyalty is what the world needs most in this age of
catastrophes. One can only rely on something which stands firm. This insight
is the mark of the true leader. He who comes from the masses understands all
too well that no loyal following is to be expected from the masses,
majorities, parties. . . . He who is born to lead can use them, but he
despises them. He conducts the bitterest battle not against the enemy, but
against the swarm of his all too devoted friends. . . .
It is high time that the "white" world, and first and foremost Germany,
became mindful of such facts. For behind the world wars and the as yet
incomplete proletarian world revolution there looms the greatest of all
dangers, the black danger, and everything the white peoples still have to
offer worthy of the name "race" will be necessary to combat it. Above all it
must be remembered that Germany is not the island which political ideologues
think it is, treating it as no more than an object with which to realize
their programmes. It is just a tiny spot in a vast world in ferment, albeit
in a crucial position within this world. It alone has the Prussian spirit
working within it as a living reality. Endowed with this treasure which
enables it to be a role model of existence, Germany can be the educator of
the "white world," perhaps even its savior. . . .
The coming phase of history will henceforth be lived out far above economic
crises and the ideals of domestic politics. Elemental forces of life are now
entering the fray where the stakes are all or nothing. The prototypes of
Caesarism will soon become more clearly defined, more conscious, more
brazen. The masks surviving from the parliamentary age of transition will
fall away entirely. All attempts to determine the shape of the future within
political parties will be quickly forgotten. The fascist formations of these
decades will turn into new ones as yet unpredictable, and even nationalism
as we know it will disappear. Everywhere, not just in Germany, the only
formative power left is the warlike "Prussian" spirit. Destiny, once
confined within imposing institutions and weighty traditions, will make
history through amorphous and unique expressions of force. The legions of
Caesar are reawakening.
Here, perhaps even in this century, the final decisions are waiting for the
man to take them. In front of him the petty goals and concepts of today's
politics count as nothing. Whoever holds the sword which wrests victory now
will be lord of the world. There lies the dice of this monstrous game. Who
dares to cast them?
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