To Celebrate Our Western Patrimony

The Heritage Month Posts

When I went to the Google homepage on February 1st, I was reminded—as one should expect to be— that it was another one of those celebratory seasons on the liturgical calendar of the Civil Rights Regime. My immediate instinct was to counter-signal the actual/political meaning (as opposed to the stated meaning) of Black History Month with a series of celebrations of key figures of our Western heritage. I determined to post on Twitter one person per day, and call it Heritage History month. It has proven to be a pretty popular series. I’ll thus now post them here on the Substack in the shorter length blog section.

I introduced this series with the following:

It is a legitimate function of state to protect, preserve, and promote the heritage of the nation.

In our time not only does the state neglect this duty, but it also endeavors to burn the cultural memory of this country to the ground, and upon its ashes, construct something that’s seeks to humiliate and shame the legacy population.

Thus, it is up to the Vanguard to celebrate our heroes and experiences. Happy Heritage History Month.

In our age, racial tensions are heated and everybody knows it. It is one of the core fundamentals of my understanding of contemporary politics that the Regime that sought to manage the postwar international order in the West became saturated by racially-conscious anti-Westerners. Their objective was the cultural destruction of Western countries; they sought to liquidate the residues of the Western Civilization that had previously been conquered by Americanism during the first half of the twentieth century. In other words, what is happening now is not the destruction of Western Civilization, but the consequences of having previously lost that Civilization—the postwar liberal consensus was never strong enough to stand on its own because peoples cannot bond together on mere propositions alone.

The new ideological managers of the Regime do think in terms of ethnocultural frameworks, and they are not colorblind in the way MLK Jr was made out to be, obviously. They do seek the political destruction of Heritage Americans and they seek to advance the cause of immigrants and transplants from the Third World. That’s what Black History Month is about. That’s what the destruction of Heritage American statues and landmarks is about. That’s what the border crisis is about. It is well-known that the New Left that was born of European and American radicalism thinks in terms of racial revenge.

The problem is that Americans—due to their own historical decencies I think— have been well trained specifically NOT to think in racial terms, while their enemies have been trained specifically to think in such terms. This is what we can refer to as the Heritage American dilemma. Answering that it is un-Christian or immoral to think in such terms is not quite the relevant conversation; for what we need to do is properly understand what is happening, whether we like it or not.

More on this later—it’s an uncomfortable conversation.

Thus, what I wanted to do in the Heritage History series is spend time reflecting on the main stream of our actual heroes—people that either contributed to the making of the West, or who otherwise found themselves on the other side of the great unmaking and sought to defend the civilization from which they came.

Western Civilization is a grand mixture of Greek myth and philosophy, Roman civics and political order, and a Christian metaphysic and teleology. Christianity depended upon the world of antiquity; that is, God in His providence brought about Christ at a specific moment in the historical drama so as to take advantage of the civilizational contributions of cultures that had come before. This means not only that God used the Deep Past to build up a cultural foundation, but He also used it to bring about the historical destruction of major powers and people groups. Thus, our Heritage stretches back to Homer, forward to Aristotle, onward to Charlemagne, and forward and Westward from there. That’s a lot to cover.

Over the centuries, the experiences of Western peoples became absorbed deep in the spiritual and sentimental aspects of Western man such that instincts and subconscious memories were formed that would shape the destiny of the West to her bitter end. As we watch the revolutionary Regime continue its Long March —by now having completely captured the institutions—through the Western world, we must now become aware, out of our own initiative, of who we are and where we came from. I do not think of such a project as being able to stop the revolution; it is too late for that.

But it is a means of making it through to the other side of such a trans-generational rampage of pillage and plunder. Remembering who we are is an exercise in identifying our heroes, and using them as the occasion to look within, to find in ourselves some sort of deeply ingrained memory of where we came from. It is a way of honoring our patrimony, when we live in collective pursuit of celebrating their contributions.

Not everyone on the list might be thought of as equal in their contribution to our Heritage, and of course the more modern choices contributed basically nothing to the centuries of building—they rather came about later and attempted to stand against the mob, against the tide of Deconstructionists and other sociopolitical arsonists. It’s hard to choose only 29 (it’s Leap Year!), but nevertheless, it’s a fun project, that’s captured a decent amount of enthusiasm.

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