Nationalism as a way of life. Or, the art of nationalisting. An essay. Let’s start at the top. So, at some point you decided to move past Liberalism, probably around the time that you realized that ethnicity exists. You accepted the idea that people work together to achieve collective goals. You even noticed that you and yours are the only ones who do not display in-group preferences and that it’s starting to bite you in the ass. Well done. You’re way ahead of the kids on the short bus at this point. But now is not the time to sit on your laurels and coast through getting B’s because you’re too cool for school.
Jun 27, 2022·edited Jun 27, 2022Liked by Rurik Skywalker
I have had zero success answering weakness with rhetoric. The only satisfying answer is to cultivate strength.
Strength is objective and measurable. Strength can never be be granted or denied to us, nor can it be counterfeited by any man.
200 pounds is always 200 pounds in the hands of every human being. 200 pounds is unmoved by any fashion or wishful thinking.
We gain strength only as we test our limits and correct our errors. That struggle teaches us restraint, honesty, ambition, humility, physiology and faith. Struggle grows into training, and training hardens into habit. The man who has gained the most strength has completed the deepest study into these virtues.
So I believe you are correct when you say that strengthening one's tribe is an end in itself, and to your critics who insist that skill is somehow more important than strength, I will answer from my athletic experience that strength is the parent of skill.
However skilled a man may be, getting stronger only makes him more effective and unlocks even more skill.
National listing? That was my first impression. Didn't immediately grok it. Now I get that you're offering nationalist-ing as a new word, a new parse on pre-existing words like nationalizing.
It's been established as definition the govt may nationalize, but individuals (nationalists) don't/can't. (Not even a strongman apparently) So when nat-lists try to recruit or proselytize for the idea of nationalism, it's now to be called nationalisting.
Sorry, doesn't work for me. It sounds clunky and doesn't read lucidly. Not an English word that flows off the tongue and readily discloses its meaning.
"Nice try. No cigar." as the carny would say. Or to be entirely heretical - too much strength, not enough skill.
This doesn't mean I don't love you anyway and that your ideas about nationalism aren't sagacious and welcome.
I have had zero success answering weakness with rhetoric. The only satisfying answer is to cultivate strength.
Strength is objective and measurable. Strength can never be be granted or denied to us, nor can it be counterfeited by any man.
200 pounds is always 200 pounds in the hands of every human being. 200 pounds is unmoved by any fashion or wishful thinking.
We gain strength only as we test our limits and correct our errors. That struggle teaches us restraint, honesty, ambition, humility, physiology and faith. Struggle grows into training, and training hardens into habit. The man who has gained the most strength has completed the deepest study into these virtues.
So I believe you are correct when you say that strengthening one's tribe is an end in itself, and to your critics who insist that skill is somehow more important than strength, I will answer from my athletic experience that strength is the parent of skill.
However skilled a man may be, getting stronger only makes him more effective and unlocks even more skill.
Just get stronger!
If nothing else, it drives them crazy.
Godspeed Rolo.
>until you take steps to embody the verb and not the noun of the ideal that you claim to care about, you are simply experiencing an identity crisis.
Words to live by. Should be tattooed on the head of everyone who professes an ideal.
There's also something in here about revealed preferences of white liberals revealing them as the real racists or something.
National listing? That was my first impression. Didn't immediately grok it. Now I get that you're offering nationalist-ing as a new word, a new parse on pre-existing words like nationalizing.
It's been established as definition the govt may nationalize, but individuals (nationalists) don't/can't. (Not even a strongman apparently) So when nat-lists try to recruit or proselytize for the idea of nationalism, it's now to be called nationalisting.
Sorry, doesn't work for me. It sounds clunky and doesn't read lucidly. Not an English word that flows off the tongue and readily discloses its meaning.
"Nice try. No cigar." as the carny would say. Or to be entirely heretical - too much strength, not enough skill.
This doesn't mean I don't love you anyway and that your ideas about nationalism aren't sagacious and welcome.
Inspirational post.
Sure, it makes a lot of assumptions as to your friend's stance and behaviour...