SECEDE

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Big words for big ideas.

Let’s face it: union is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Union means everyone having to abide by the same rules and values everywhere, all the time.  These rules constitute American Universalist monoculture.  They emanate from an imperial center hundreds or thousands of miles away.  They come not from the people or the people’s values, but percolate into culture and government from the ivory towers of elite universities, where men who are much, much smarter than we — aren’t they? — have decided that they don’t know what a “women” is, that “nationalism” is a dirty word, that love of your own cultural and genetic heritage is “hatred.”

“Secede” is a big dirty word.  That prophet of union, Abe Lincoln, the slick railroad lawyer from Kentucky, killed 700,000 Americans to secure “union.”  So it must be important, right?

Union: not all it’s cracked up to be.

If union is so great, why did the American colonists secede from Great Britain?  After all, most of their claimed grievances against King George were disingenuous.

The truth is, like a lot of other things, union is great — until you don’t want it anymore.  Then it sucks.  It becomes coercive, oppressive, even totalitarian.  It tends to tamp down on your autonomy.

This makes the American story more than a little hypocritical.  Less than a century after its rebellion against the British King succeeded, the Yanks crushed the rebellion of the Southern states in the War of Secession (misleading labeled a “civil war” in standard American textbooks.)  If there’s anything more coercive and totalitarian than the forced “Reconstruction” of southern American society after that failed bid for Southern autonomy, we can’t think of it.  Reconstruction was a radical revolution that destroyed a culture and society in order to guarantee the further spread of Universalism into the rebellious and resistant inegalitarian South.  (Yeah, yeah, the Yanks hated slavery too, just like the gubmint schools tell you.  But let us not mistake moral rationales for real motivations, which are always political.)

Universalism is that age-old religion, nowadays fashionably devoid of deity, which claims that “all men are created equal.”  You’ll recognize this maxim from America’s founding documents.  As a proposition it is either vacuous or trivially false, depending on what is meant by “equal.”  But this very characteristic makes it excellent foundational material for a system of propaganda.  After all, it is nearly impossible to refute a claim (such as “all men are created equal”) that has no specific meaning.

And Lincoln?  He was one of the greatest propagandists ever.  Check out the size of his shrine in D. C.  His most famous oration, the “Gettysburg Address,” was a pack of lies, as H. L. Mencken ably noted:

But let us not forget that it is oratory, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it! Put it into the cold words of everyday! The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination — “that government of the people, by the people, for the people,” should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. What was the practical effect of the battle of Gettysburg? What else than the destruction of the old sovereignty of the States, i. e., of the people of the States? The Confederates went into battle an absolutely free people; they came out with their freedom subject to the supervision and vote of the rest of the country—and for nearly twenty years that vote was so effective that they enjoyed scarcely any freedom at all. Am I the first American to note the fundamental nonsensicality of the Gettysburg address? If so, I plead my aesthetic joy in it in amelioration of the sacrilege.

Spread the word.  It’s time to break it up. 

The age of massively huge polities comprising hundreds of millions of people is passing.  In particular, “America” is an idea whose time has passed.  It’s brand of “democracy,” which is nothing but a political cover for modern relativism, nihilism and individualism run amok, is destructive not only to virtue but to actual liberty (but is conducive to the  libertinism it champions.)

This can all be summed up in one word: SECEDE.

Secession is ascendant.  Secession is the future, together with local control, interdependence, autarky, and rational, group-interested nationalism.

The “democracy” party is over.  The “union” meme is dead.  Spread the word.