Saturday, 5 May 2012

The Death of the Ideal


It seems that if modern culture has succeeded in the utter destruction of anything, it is idealism. Ideals which used to fill us, used to define us and which used to drive us to move mountains and accomplish the impossible have been discarded. Replaced with the empty crevices of consumerism and individualist culture, which serve only to set one’s society down the path of degradation and self destruction. Indeed in the past it was not the moral emptiness of things which drove us to conquer mountains but instead a drive and a will to make the nation we know and love great. 

What has caused this divide? It seems most prominently to be linked into a change in the very fundamental psyche of business. Formerly business was a force to further the interests of the state; looking at great former Industrialists and businessmen such as Cecil Rhodes or the Krupp Family we see a constant image of patriots ready to put themselves in the firing line for the national good. In the case of Rhodes we get a quite literal example of that via his own personal intervention in the Boer War. Yet now we live in a society where the state is subservient to business, not vice versa and the result is a system which instead of providing the necessary criteria for improvement and progress only sparks degradation. 

One can most easily describe the relationship that should exist between business and the state is simple metaphor. It is the relationship between a parent and a child; parents must guild a child through life and protect them when necessary from the harm their poor judgement could cause. Yet at the same time they cannot be utterly dominated in this regard, for any success a child makes under complete domination is hollow and meaningless and the lack of real struggle necessary for them to attain any really greatness creates a husk of a person. In response though for this guidance (despite any harm they may feel originating from it) a child must be necessary to aid their parents in times of need and pay back the gift, perhaps the greatest gift of life, they have been given. 

Instead of this though we see a system where exploitation of one’s own countrymen remains on the table, where the national good is substituted for the good of the individual and a system is enforced which holds no real longevity in reality. This is not to say such ideals as Marxism hold credit, equality is by no means a real aim, but at the same time it is our duty to ensure that the state as a whole benefits from the economic system we hold onto. What we need is the so called “third way” the point where the best of state and private intervention can combine and hand in hand work to build true greatness. 

In the past we have simply seen this ideal as a method to disguise one’s own ultra-capitalist or socialist economic viewpoint, simply performing a Bismarck style twist to hide ones true agenda. That cannot be the aim nor can it even enter the agenda, the ideal of the state and doing all in ones power to further that ideal must be our driving point. For under an idea we can achieve greatness, a man will much sooner die for an ideal then we will die for pure economic property. This is why war is always waged under pretences of spreading freedom or liberty as we can individually regard ourselves as morally righteous instruments towards bringing about that end. 

Society must feel united, it must feel strong and it must feel purpose for it to act in the cohesive and indeed perfect manner it must seek to attain. This though can only be attained with an idea and the alternative we currently face is a level of division and divide among our state that threatens to destroy and disembowel us all.  The modern political class is either too idiotic to accept this or simply does not care, to busy filling their own pockets with the spoils of their decadence, it is up to the British people to take hold of the necessary vision and force about the change we so need if we are to have a future at all...

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