HAVE WE FORGOTTEN THE OLD RULES OF PRIMOGENITURE? In the battle for Western civilization, the elder brother Europe must lead. For too long the Europeans have surrendered their dignities to globalists and international bureaucracies. The globalist knows that every time the true Englishman (or woman!) passes the Lincoln Cathedral on his way to navigate the vulgar stew of the public tram, he feels a pang. He knows that the slum camps on the medieval city fountains are an outrage to every true Italian patriot. America has the economic and hegemonic power, but Europe has the aesthetic and cultural power. Together we can bring back the beautiful and mutual civilization that was lost. The Europeans must take heart and loose the chains that have so long shackled them to cultural and national self-wounding.     

The days of shame and national renunciation must pass away. The “enlightened” European egalitarians and globalists cannot beat down the sense of loss forever, and the great peoples of Europe must re-assert their unique cultures and historical continuities. The experience of globalist vassalage was valuable in this respect, that it forced the best Europeans to see that they are all brothers in the project of high civilization in the world. The two shot mutilitation of the World Wars was not a suicide but only a mangled attempt. One day very soon, the humane, aristocratic spirit in them will rise like a phoenix from the colossal waste of Verdun and the Ardennes and the ballrooms, opera houses and country churches of old Europe will sing again. 

ON THE OTHER HAND: The Old World is deeper in the globalist muck than the United States. The haunted memories of the ravages of the 20th century made the peoples of Europe docile and accepting of their passage from global prominence. Do we even want Europe to return to the old balance of power and ethnic politics that was so unstable for peace on the continent? The era of Pax Americana led to unprecedented stability in Western Europe for 80 years. America cannot entirely control the political rhythms of the continent anyway, and it distracts from efforts to help our own people. If pure “isolationism” is impossible, we can at least acknowledge that every nation must work out its own salvation. To retain priorities of “restoring” Western civilization is to put vague historical nostalgia above the lives of our countrymen. If the Europeans heal themselves, that is well and good, but as Americans our duty is to our own people and heritage. Let us be the shining beacon to them from across the sea once more.

THE CHAIRMAN, acquainting himself with leisurely Marseille cafe life with a bottle of Miller Lite and a translated copy of Democracy in America, signals the New World Yankees across the pond to congregate themselves and settle the matter.

RESOLVED: Europe, Heal Thyself!