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by Michael W. Masters
"[The West] has not yet understood that whites, in a world become too small for its inhabitants, are now a minority and that the proliferation of other races dooms our race, my race, irretrievably to extinction in the century to come, if we hold fast to our present moral principles." [emphasis added] Jean Raspail, The Camp Of The Saints
The loss of racial identity in the Western world is symptomatic of a
deeper crisis within the European peoples, whose culture and technology have
provided the world with much of what we know today as modern civilization. At
its core, the crisis is the inevitable consequence of a profound, and perhaps
fatal, misunderstanding of the nature of morality. We have lost sight of
ancient and eternal laws of Nature on which our civilization must be based if
we are to survive. We no longer have the luxury of indulging in universalist
altruistic principles that, no matter how noble they may appear, have driven
us to the brink of ruin.
Demographic projections based on American and European immigration
policies, as well as the evidence of one's own senses as one walks the streets
of any large Western city, point to a bleak future. Within a century or two,
perhaps less, the peoples of the West, those whose ancestry derives from the
Nordic and Alpine subraces of Europe, will have ceased to exist as a cohesive
entity. How quickly the end will come depends on immigration rates,
differential birthrates among ethnic groups, and mixed race childbearing
rates. But the final outcome is fixed so long as we adhere to our present
course.
And yet, frank discussion of the outcome, the submergence of the race that
produced the world's first, and perhaps only technological civilization,is
usually silenced with words like "racist," "bigot," and "xenophobe." Neither
the flawed moral system that enforces this silence nor the people who support
it will outlive the demise of the West. But when the West is gone, it will be
of little consolation that those responsible will have expired as well. If we
are to reverse course, it is vital that we take steps now, before it is too
late.
If, today, the West's moral system is flawed, how can it be corrected? The
first question we must ask is whether it is moral for ethnic groups as well as
individuals to seek survival. And if so, what are the moral actions we may
undertake to secure survival? What must be the moral basis of our civilization
if it is not to be lost? In his book, Destiny of Angels, Richard McCulloch
calls these questions a matter of "ultimate ethics."
The Moral Dilemma of the West
The dilemma of our people is the product of a deep misconception about
nature and morality. It arises from the mistaken, sentimental belief that
altruism can be extended beyond its evolutionary origin kinship and within
group altruism to the whole of humanity. It results from failure to accept the
role of genetic factors in defining human temperament and potential.
The standards that govern public debate are reminiscent of the Dark Ages
in that they have no basis in science or in human experience. Instead, they
consist of moralistic assertions derived from a world view rooted in radical
egalitarianism. The long term consequence of adherence to these principles is
rarely examined, let alone subjected to scientific scrutiny.
Most Western people would agree that an innate sense of right and wrong
plays a key role in the Western moral system, a system that values individual
worth and reciprocal fairness. The tragedy of this moral view is that it has
been extended to the world at large seemingly the most noble behavior humanity
has ever exhibited and has become the threat to the survival of the West.
As biologist Garrett Hardin demonstrated in his 1982 essay,"Discriminating
Altruisms," universalism a chimerical One World without borders or
distinctions is impossible. Groups that practice unlimited altruism,
unfettered by thoughts of self preservation, will be disadvantaged in life's
competition and thus eliminated over time in favor of those that limit their
altruistic behavior to a smaller subset of humanity, usually their own genetic
kin, from whom they receive reciprocal benefits.
Professor Hardin writes:
"Universalism is altruism practiced without discrimination of kinship, acquaintanceship, shared values, or propinquity in time or space . . . . To people who accept the idea of biological evolution from amoeba to man, the vision of social evolution from egoism to universalism may seem plausible. In fact, however, the last step is impossible . . . . Let us see why. "In imagination, picture a world in which social evolution has gone no further than egoism or individualism. When familialism appears on the scene, what accounts for its persistence? It must be that the costs of the sacrifices individuals make for their relatives are more than paid for by the gains realized through family solidarity . . . . "The argument that accounts for the step to familialism serves equally well for each succeeding step except for the last. Why the difference? Because the One World created by universalism has by definition no competitive base to support it . . . [Universalism] cannot survive in competition with discrimination." [emphasis in original]Professor Hardin adds:
"[W]e must not forget that for three billion years, biological evolution has been powered by discrimination. Even mere survival in the absence of evolutionary change depends on discrimination. If universalists now have their way, discrimination will be abandoned. Even the most modest impulse toward conservatism should cause us to question the wisdom of abandoning a principle that has worked so well for billions of years. It is a tragic irony that discrimination has produced a species (homo sapiens) that now proposes to abandon the principle responsible for its rise to greatness." It is to the advantage of non Europeans, virtually all of whom retain their cohesion as distinctive,discriminating groups, to exploit the economic wealth and social order of the West, benefits many demonstrably cannot create for themselves. When this cohesive drive is placed in competition with self sacrificing Western altruism, there can be only one outcome. In the near term, Europeans will be displaced by groups acting in their own self interest. In the long run, biological destruction awaits us. Since those who displace us do not, by definition, maintain our morals standards for if they did, they would not be replacing us our flawed moral system will vanish with us.
The fact that universal, self sacrificing altruism destroys its
practitionersis its most obvious flaw. Any survivable moral order must
recognize this.
The Cosmic Race
The dream of a Utopia in which racial harmony prevails, has never come
true. Today, racial encroachment is a threat to the very existence of Western
peoples. Lawrence Auster, author of The Path to National Suicide, An Essay on
Immigration and Multiculturalism, has elsewhere summarized the situation thus:
"Modern liberalism told us that racial differences don't matter, and on the basis of that belief, liberals then set about turning America into a multiracial, integrated, race blind society. But now that very effort has created so much race consciousness, race conflict and race inequality, that the same liberals have concluded that the only way to overcome those problems is to merge all the races into one. The same people who have always denounced as an extremist lunatic anyone who warned about `the racial dilution of white America,' are now proposing, not just the dilution of white America, but its complete elimination. Race blind ideology has led directly to the mostrace conscious and indeed genocidal proposal in the history of the world."
This change of strategy was signaled by the cover story of a Fall 1993
special edition of Time. The story featured a computer synthesized image of a
woman representing the intermixture of all of the ethnic population elements
of the United States in their present proportions. The subliminal message
conveyed by this computerized android, obviously still of predominantly
European ancestry, was: "Don't worry, this is harmless." Or, in the current
idiom of multiculturalism, "let us celebrate our diversity." Of course, this
image represents the utter destruction of diversity, not its conservation.
This computer generated android is a lie. The American population base is
in a state of rapid change. Whites are now having fewer children, and there
are thus fewer whites of child bearing age than Time assumes. This is
happening worldwide. The question is, what would be the result of this plan
being carried forward on a larger scale, carried to its logical conclusion in
a world sans borders? Time's android is but a way station on the road to what
some lovingly call the Cosmic Race.
People of European ancestry constitute something over ten percent of the
world's population, but since 1980, white births amount to only a little more
than five percent of the world's new children. The birth rate in the West has
fallen to dangerously low levels, now about 1.8 children per woman. A level of
2.1 is required to balance deaths. Birthrates in the third world remain very
high, thanks in large measure to the infusion of Western food, medicine, and
"peacekeeping."
Because people are not computer morphs but have discrete ancestors, let us
assume that the fraction of people with European ancestry is now one sixteenth
of the child bearing population. When the Time experiment is complete on a
world wide scale, the resulting human will have only one white great great
grandparent. He will be visibly Asian since about 60 percent of the world's
population is Asian. In round numbers, this amounts to ten of the sixteen
great great grandparents, including four from China alone. Three would come
from India and three more from Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Africa
would supply three and non white Latin America and the Caribbean basin the
remaining two.
In this scenario, which is already unfolding on the North American
continent and in Europe and Australia, the single European ancestor would
leave no discernible residue in homo cosmicus. Europeans would be extinct,
fulfilling the nightmare vision that Jean Raspail described in The Camp Of The
Saints. This is not a condemnation of any real human being with such an
ancestry. Nevertheless, this process would eradicate the biological diversity
that multiculturalists claim to cherish. In its place would be only
uniformity, the irreversible submergence of all races.
The passing of any race is an event of great significance. The destruction
of an entire population is, in fact, genocide by the definitions of the UN
Genocide Convention, which defines genocide as ". . . the destruction, in
whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial or national group. The acts so defined
include. . . the destruction of the conditions of life necessary for the
physical existence of the group . . . ."
The debate about race must be framed in these terms in order to convey its
true importance. The battle cannot be won by allowing the other side to limit
the terms of debate by declaring certain subjects beyond discussion. The
consequences are too important.
The Dual Code of Morality
Why, though, does race matter? The answer lies in the biology of genes and
in the impact of genetic kinship on altruism. For many decades, altruism was a
paradox for theories of evolution. Darwin himself realized that altruism was
difficult to expalain in terms of individual "survival of the fittest." In his
book, Race, Evolution and Behavior, Philippe Rushton writes, "If the most
altruistic members of a group sacrifice themselves for others, they run the
risk of leaving fewer offspring to pass on the very genes that govern the
altruistic behavior. Hence, altruism would be selected against, and
selfishness would be selected for."
Prof. Rushton suggests that this paradox is resolved by genetic similarity
theory, a field pioneered by biologist W.D. Hamilton and others. Prof Rushton
writes:
"By a process known as kin selection, individuals can maximize their inclusive fitness rather than only their individual fitness by increasing the production of successful offspring by both themselves and their genetic relatives . . . . Genes are what survive and are passed on, and some of the same genes will be found not only in direct offspring but in siblings, cousins, nephews/nieces, and grandchildren . . . . thus, from an evolutionary perspective, altruism is a means of helping genes to propagate."
Over time, kin selection has resulted in a dual code of morality, an
altruistic code for one's genetic kin and a non altruistic code for everyone
else. Anthropologists have suggested that humans evolved through a process of
migration and tribal warfare between groups composed of genetically related
individuals. In A New Theory of Human Evolution, Sir Arthur Keith wrote, "The
process which secures the evolution of an isolated group of humanity is a
combination of two principles . . . nmaely, cooperation with competition . . .
. I hold that from the very beginning of human evolution the conduct of every
local group was regulated by two codes of morality, distinguished by Herbert
Spencer as the `code of amity' and the `code of enmity'."
Garrett Hardin writes, "The essential characteristic of a tribe is that it
should follow a double standard of morality one kind of behavior for in group
relations, another for out group." In group relations are characterized by
cooperation while out group relations are characterized by conflict. Liberals
have tried to discredit the role of tribal conflict, claiming that such
distinctions have been lost as groups reached nation size. But in so doing,
they miss the vital message of genetic similarity theory. National ethnic
groups represent the growth and consolidation of genetically related tribes
over time.
Professor Hardin argues that, because of the nature of altruism and
competition, the dual code of morality is inescapable and cannot be eliminated
from human society:
"In the absence of competition between tribes the survival value of altruism in a crowded world approaches zero because what ego gives up necessarily . . . goes into the commons. What is in the commons cannot favor the survival of the sharing impulses that put itthere unless there are limits placed on sharing. To place limits on sharing is to create a tribe which means a rejection of One World. . . . A state of One World, if achieved, would soon redissolve into an assemblage of tribes."
The in group out group distinction still operates today; it is only the
battleground that has shifted. Tribal warfare has been replaced by territorial
irredentism and competing birthrates.
The liberal campaign to eliminate feelings of national, cultural, or
racial solidarity among Western peoples was undertaken largely in the hope
that the abolition of "tribalism" would inaugurate an era of world peace. As
Professor Hardin has shown, tribalism cannot be eliminated. Worse still, any
idealistic group that unilaterally dismantles its own tribal sense will be
swept away by groups that have retained theirs. Unless the current direction
is changed, the West will be destroyed in this new form of biological warfare.
The dual code of morality is therefore the cornerstone on which any
enduring moral order must be based. It is also an answer to the question of
ultimate ethics posed earlier: "Is it moral for ethnic groups to seek to
survive?" Since it is impossible to eliminate "tribes"from the human race, the
answer to this question must be yes. That which is built inextricably into the
laws of the universe cannot be immoral.
Universalists might try to caricature the dual code of morality as an
invidious double standard, but it is something we practice every day without
even thinking about it. Without it, no group, be it a family, club,
corporation, political party, nation, or race would exist. It is how groups
distinguish between members and non members.Employees of the same company
treat each other differently from the way they treat competitors. Members of
the same political party cooperate with each other and run against opponents.
Families draw sharp distinctions between members and strangers. It is easy to
overlook the dual code of morality precisely because it is so fundamental a
part of human nature.
The "code of amity, code of enmity" explains racial loyalties. It is an
extension of the biologically necessary fact that parents love their children
more than the children of strangers. Such feelings are normal and natural. Yet
"racism" has become the curse word that stops discussion. Those who use the
word as a weapon say that racial loyalty is racism when exhibited by whites
but is justifiable pride when exhibited by non whites. The word is simply a
means of gaining power over people who have exaggerated moral scruples.
The Biology of Diversity
Feelings of racial loyalty are grounded in biological differences. These
are discussed authoritatively in J. Philippe Rushton's Race, Evolution, and
Behavior, but they do not imply that one race has a right to rule over
another. Frank discussion of real differences must not be considered morally
repugnant. Scientific truth cannot be racism, at least not in the pejorative
sense that the word is now used.
Most forms of behavior (by whites) that are characterized as racism do not
involve unprovoked assault on people of other races, but are simply the
natural loyalty of humans for their own group. They are necessary for
survival. Unprovoked violence is a moral evil, but by all statistical
measures, whites are overwhelmingly the victims of crimes of racial violence,
not the perpetrators.
Blacks are twelve percent of the population but commit almost two thirds
of the violent crime in America, are over twelve times more likely to murder
whites than the reverse, are more than a thousand times more likely to rape
white women than the reverse, and choose whites as crime victims fifty percent
of the time compared to whites choosing blacks as victims only two percent of
the time.
Interracial crime is just one manifestation of a fundamental biological
principle called Gause's Law of Exclusion. In his book, The Mammals of North
America, University of Kansas biology professor Raymond Hall states the law as
follows: "Two subspecies of the same species do not occur in the same
geographic area." [emphasis in original] One will inevitably eliminate or
displace the other. Prof. Hall specifically includes humans in this rule: "To
imagine one subspecies of man living together on equal terms for long with
another subspecies is but wishful thinking and leads only to disaster and
oblivion for one or the other."
Oblivion need not come in the form of physical destruction. It may simply
involve the loss of habitat. Harlem, Watts, East St. Louis, and many other
black neighborhoods were once occupied by whites. The arrival of blacks (or
other non whites) in sufficient numbers makes it impossible for whites to
survive, whereas the process does not work in reverse. Even without the
carnage of inter racial crime, whites could be eliminated through sheer loss
of territory. Viewed in biological terms, ethnic diversity is prelude to
destruction.
The great majority of people, of any age and origin, do not concern
themselves with the rise and fall of civilizations. Like fish in water, they
are conscious of their environment only when it changes rapidly and
threateningly, a rarity in most people's lifetimes. Yet civilizations do fall,
and the warning signs for ours have been present for more than a century.
Rudyard Kipling's line, "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain
shall meet," presaged the message of early twentieth century Americans,
Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard, whose books, The Passing of the Great Race
and The Rising Tide of Color, helped bring about the immigration restrictions
of 1924.
The 1924 national origins quota system was dismantled in 1965 during the
wave of self recrimination that accompanied the Civil Rights era.
ShouldChinese historians of the twenty second century be writing the final
history of Western civilization, no doubt they will cite the 1965 Immigration
Act as the blow that broke the back of Western man.
Elmer Pendell, in his book, Why Civilizations Self Destruct, surveyed
historians' theories as to why civilizations fall. They include Oswald
Spengler's analogy to individual aging and death, theories of moral decay, and
theories based on ecological deterioration. Concerning the latter, Garrett
Hardin notes in The Limits of Altruism: "No civilization has ever recovered
after ruining its environment." [emphasis in original] All of these theories
have their appeal, yet none is a complete explanation for what is happening to
the West.
Pendell's own hypothesis seems closer to the mark. A civilization arises
when natural selection produces a people of above averageintelligence. As the
founders conquer natural culling forces, those who would have been removed
from the population due to their lesser abilities survive and produce more
children than the more intelligent founders. Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's
cousin and author of Hereditary Genius, first noted that `men of eminence'
have fewer children than the average.Eventually the intelligence level of the
population falls below that needed to sustain civilization.
Pendell suggests another factor in the collapse of civilizations, the
gradual adulteration of ethnically homogeneous founding populations through
losses in wars and, in ancient times, the taking of slaves. The modern
analogue of slavery is immigration. Tenny Frank, in his book History of Rome,
wrote, "The original peoples were wasted in wars and scattered in migrations
and colonization and their places were filled chiefly with Eastern Slaves." We
cannot speak of the spirit of Rome or the culture of Rome, Frank said,
"without defining whether the reference is to the Rome of 200 BC or 200 AD."
Theodor Mommsen wrote in The History of Rome, "The patrician body. . . had
dwindled away more and more in the course of centuries and in the time of
Caesar there were not more than fifteen or sixteen patrician gentes (clans)
still in existence." In 9 A. D. laws were passed requiring each patrician
family to have three children. Lead poisoning has been implicated in the
failure to reverse the decline of Roman blood, but the reasons do not change
the outcome. Even in ancient Rome, slaves did not stay slaves forever, and
their gradual suffusion through the population by intermixture would have
contributed to Rome's demise. The same situation, massive infusion of non
Western peoples and a birthrate below replacement level, threatens the West,
and for reasons quite unrelated to lead poisoning.
After The Fall
Eric Fischer, writing in The Passing of the European Age, said that a new
civilization never arises where an earlier civilization has died. If Pendell's
theory is correct and if the hypothesis of Tenny Frank and others explains the
loss of a hereditary capacity for civilization, then Fischer's observation has
a genetic explanation.Civilization cannot arise on the site of an earlier
civilization once the hereditary character of the people is permanently
altered. This process is happening in the Western world today through
immigration, welfare, and liberal policies that promote the submergence of
ethnic groups into a global "melting pot."
Should the West suffer the fate of Rome, there will be no recovery.
Whether or not other civilizations arise among other peoples remains to be
seen. Present economic success indicates that East Asia may be a future center
of civilization. However, modern innovations flow predominantly from the
creative wellsprings of the West. Whether innovation could be sustained in the
absence of Western peoples remains to be seen. There is evidence that this
might not happen; intelligence testing of Asians shows a relatively small
standard deviation, suggesting a smaller right tail of the IQ distribution and
a smaller percentage of innovative individuals.
Although dire predictions about the future are often ridiculed, it is wise
to remember Rome catastrophes can and do occur, and in a globally linked
world, the consequences could be shattering. In The Limits of Altruism,
Garrett Hardin cites Harrison Brown, author of The Challenge of Man's Future,
as the first person to recognize the vulnerability of the West's advanced
civilization. Brown focused on the role of metals in modern civilization and
on the technology required to obtain metals. Prof. Hardin summarizes the
situation:
"Looking only at the copper component of the problem, we should note that preliterate man managed to create the Bronze Age only because of the ready availability of copper ores assaying greater than 20 percent. . . . Only the most primitive of means are required to process high grade ores. But now we are reduced to extracting our copper from ores that assay less than 1 percent, and soon we will have nothing better than 0.1 percent. It takes a very sophisticated technology to deal with low grade ores, a technology that only a large population of technologically advanced people can muster."
Prof. Hardin continues, "Our many technologies form an incredible network
of mutual support, mutual dependence. If this network were disrupted . . . it
is doubtful if our kind of technology could ever be rebuilt. . . . On all
counts, it looks as though our civilization, once fallen, will never be
replaced by another of comparable quality."
Prof. Hardin suggests two possible causes for the destruction of modern
civilization: nuclear warfare and a population crash brought on by exceeding
the Earth's carrying capacity. However, genetic submergence of the peoples
with the innate ability to sustain civilization will do just as well.
The Roots of Western Order
The Map of Freedom, published annually by Freedom House, graphically
demonstrates that free forms of government generally track population
concentrations of people of European descent, a strong suggestion that freedom
has a genetic origin. Although there are exceptions, notably Japan, which lost
a nuclear war to the West and had a Western constitution imposed on it, the
world of the free is largely the world of the Western European. The partially
free include newly emerged Eastern Europeans and a scattering of other nations
around the world. Much of Africa and Asia remains in the not free category.
Thomas Jefferson foresaw this. Fearing "importation of foreigners," he
wrote in Notes on Virginia, "They will bring with them the principles of the
governments they leave, or if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange
for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as usual, from one extreme to the
other. . . . In proportion to their number, they will infuse into it [the
nation] their spirit, warp or bias its direction, and render it a
heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."
Because economic inequality between groups inevitably produces envy,
stable societies are almost always homogeneous. Multi ethnic and multicultural
societies live on the edge of dissolution. In such cases, the role of
government turns to conflict management, as Brent Nelson points out in America
Balkanized. "Government as conflict management is an emerging theme of public
life in the U.S., a theme which recurrently manifests itself in the concepts
of dialogue, mediation, sensitivity, tolerance, and balance. The latter terms
are increasingly the shibboleths of American public life. The fiction is
maintained that these concepts . . . will produce a final resolution of
intergroup conflicts. . . . [T]he reality is something quite other." Laws
against "hate crime" and "hate speech" reflect that other reality.
If today's ethnic minorities become a majority it will be beyond the power
of Western peoples to control, peacefully by means of the ballot, the destiny
of the nations that were once their own. There is no guarantee that
protections prevalent in Western societies will be preserved in societies that
become non Western. There is no historical reason to believe that governments
based on principles of individual liberty will survive the disappearance of
Western peoples.
Post colonial Africa is enlightening. For the most part, the Dark
Continent is reverting to its ancestral ways, suitably updated by the infusion
of Western weapons, as evidenced by carnage in Somalia and Rwanda. That this
disturbs our heightened Western sense of compassion is understandable. But
sentimentality should not blind us to the long term implications for our own
survival. Nature's books are being balanced in Africa, and they will be
balanced in the West, either by us or by Nature itself. Just as giving food to
people who cannot feed themselves simply hastens an inevitable population
crash, bringing third world people into the West simply hastens the
transformation of the West into an extension of the third world.
The European tradition of ordered, self governing liberty is probably part
of our genetic heritage. Throughout the third world, governments range from
anarchy to dictatorship. That too, is surely genetic. Those few non European
countries that appear to be free have generally maintained democracy through
intimate contact with the West. If Europeans are marginalized and ultimately
absorbed by the third world, the idealism of Western liberalism that permitted
the third world invasion will have proved to be a lethal genetic flaw.
Few concepts are more ingrained in Western thought than respect for the
"rule of law." The West has a history of order that predates the eight hundred
year old Magna Carta. Roman Law was supreme in the Mediterranean world for
nearly a thousand years. Unique among the peoples of the earth, the people of
the West recognize, at least in theory, the subordination of government to
individual rights. But laws have been instrumental in bringing on the current
crisis. Although there is virtually no popular support for immigration in the
Western world, it is everywhere proceeding under laws passed by governments
elected by the people.
In the end, laws are no better at ensuring liberty than the people who
make and enforce them. Sir Roger L'Estrange said, "The greatest of all
injustice is that which goes under the name of law." America's Founders
recognized the existence of a natural order to freedom that supersedes laws
made by men. Although the American concept of liberty owed much to British and
French political thought, the American act of creation, the Declaration of
Independence, provided perhaps the best known expression of "natural law" ever
penned. Writing about securing "unalienable Rights" endowed by "Nature and
Nature's God," Thomas Jefferson wrote:
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, having the foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
The rights Jefferson identified, "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness," were set forth by George Mason in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, ratified on May 6th, 1776. Mason's work was the basis for Jefferson's statement, but the Mason version is superior because it eschews Jefferson's poetic nonsense about all men being created equal. Mason's language still stands as a monument of Western political thought:
"[A]ll men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."
Mason's words are preferable to Jefferson's for two reasons. First, he
said that men are "equally free," not "equal." The difference is vast. There
is ample evidence that Jefferson understood the difference as well as Mason,
but much of the dispossession of Europeans in their own homelands can be
traced to exploitation of this egalitarian philosophy by later Western
liberals.
Second, Mason states directly the central thesis of natural law: People
cannot, by any agreement, deprive their posterity of rights. Natural law is
therefore the fulcrum on which rests the case that immigration is genocide.
The governments of the West have no right to impose present levels of
immigration and race mixing on their people. Nor are we morally bound to
accept them.
The Ultimate Moral Principle
Mason recognized the role of "safety" as a motive for the creation of law
and government. Others have said the same thing. William Blackstone wrote,
"self defense is justly called the primary law of nature. . . [It] cannot be
taken away by the laws of society." Jefferson wrote, "A strict observance of
the written laws is doubtless one of the highest duties of a good citizen, but
it is not the highest.The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving
our country when in danger, are of higher obligation."
Their message is simple. Laws alone, independent of their survival
utility, are not, and cannot be, the underlying basis of civilization. In the
end, whoever makes and enforces the laws has the power to determine who lives
and who dies. Survival is the ultimate principle upon which all enduring moral
systems must be based. This is the third, and final, cornerstone of any
permanent moral order, for any people who "divest" their posterity of the
right to existence will vanish, and their flawed moral system will vanish with
them.
All systems of law and government must serve the imperative of survival.
Speaking on the eve of the War for Southern Independence, and in the aftermath
of John Brown's attempt to incite a slave uprising at Harper's Ferry,
President James Buchanan expressed the fear felt by white Southerners who saw
their very existence imperiled: "Self preservation is the first law of nature,
and therefore any state of society in which the sword is all the time
suspended over the heads of the people must at last become intolerable." Where
law and survival were in conflict the Founders took their cue from Cicero:
"Laws are silent in the midst of arms."
The West is surrendering the power of life and death into the hands of
third world aliens. In a world ruled by the dual "code of amity, code of
enmity," this decision, which was never subjected to systematic scrutiny by an
informed electorate, is tantamount to suicide. Sometime in the next century,
the sword Western society has suspended over its own head will become
intolerable. What our response will be remains to be seen. If there is no
response, the long descent into night is sure to follow.
Which Way Western Man?
What would be lost with the passing of Western civilization and its
peoples? Two thousand years ago, the Roman historian, Tacitus, wrote in De
Germania that the peoples of the Germanic tribes possessed a fondness for
personal freedom, an independence of spirit, an unusually high status accorded
women and a deep affection for the land. These traits have survived twenty
centuries. Without the West, will the spirit of individual liberty persevere?
The Map of Freedom suggests not. Despite the tendency of liberals to denigrate
the only culture on earth that would tolerate their presence, these virtues
uniquely characterize only Europeans and their civilization.
Now, the descendants of those same Germanic tribes, the ancestors of much
of the white world, and the creators of the only advanced technological
civilization the world has ever known, are on the road to extinction. Do
Western moral principles require that its creators commit suicide in order to
fulfill those principles? Such a belief is insane. It therefore follows that
if the West is to survive it must come to grips, as Jean Raspail foresaw, with
theprofoundly destructive nature of its moral beliefs.
Any enduring moral order must be based on the following principles: 1) a
dual code of morality, which is of evolutionary origin, binds the members of
ethnic and racial groups together; 2) universal,selfsacrificing altruism in a
world in which racial cohesion is elsewhere the norm is lethal; and 3) the
imperative of survival and the primacy ofself preservation supersede all laws
made by man.
What then, must we do? Raymond Cattell, in his book A New Morality From
Science: Beyondism, called for a reversal of the universalist creed and
creation of many social laboratories where evolution can proceed without harm
or subjugation of anyone by anyone else. Wilmot Robertson urged this path as
the basis of nationhood in TheEthnostate. Richard McCulloch has elevated this
principle to a "racial Golden Rule" in The Racial Compact.
The only course that gives cohesive groups a chance to survive is ethnic
separation. Without separation, the dual code of morality will ensure a long,
chaotic period of strife and bloodshed. Eventually, what racial conflict does
not finish, miscegenation, diminished birthrates, and physical and
psychological displacement will. Personal liberty and individuality, without
which Europeans simply cannot exist, will disappear long before the European
genetic heritage is completely submerged. Lest this outcome seem remote and
therefore of no concern, let the time scale of Rome's decline be always kept
in mind. Though those reading this may or may not live to see the collapse of
the West, the white children being born today may well suffer it.
Jean Raspail also believed that the end was not far off. In the
introductionto the 1985 edition of The Camp of the Saints, he wrote, "The
Roman empire did not die any differently, though, it's true, more slowly,
whereas this time we can expect a more sudden conflagration . . . . Christian
charity will prove itself powerless. The times will be cruel."
Louis Veuillot, the 19th century French writer, captured the dilemma
facing the West in confronting peoples who do not conform to Western moral
principles. "When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is
your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because
that is my principle." The West must recognize this appeal for compassion by
"the wretched refuse of [the non Western world's] teeming shore," for what it
is: a form of beguiling parasitism that can, by definition, only seduce those
with Western moral principles.
In The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler wrote, "One grows or dies.
There is no third possibility." The peoples of the West must come to believe
in and act in accordance with the only moral principle Nature recognizes: for
those who live in harmony with Nature, survival is moral. For those who do
not, the penalty is extinction. Without this understanding, Western Man,
progenitor of law, compassion, technology and a spirit of quest that is
unparalleled in the history of the human race, will perish at the hands of
those who do not possess the same innate spark. For the sake of our children
who are yet to be, let us choose life by whatever means we must whilethe
choice is still ours.
Mr. Masters' essay, "We Are A People," appeared in the July August (1995)
issue of Southern Patriot. His review of Garrett Hardin's The Immigration
Dilemma appeared in the Summer (1995)issue of The Social Contract.
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