Tuesday, June 05, 2007

from “The Essence of Archaism" by Guillaume Faye

... as the philosopher Raymond Ruyer, detested by the left-bank
intelligentsia, foretold in his two important works, /Les nuisances
idéologiques/ and /Les cents prochains siècles/, once the historical
digression of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has finally closed,
with egalitarianism's hallucinations having descended into catastrophe,
humanity will return to archaic values, that is, quite simply, to
biological and human (anthropological) values: distinctive sexual roles;
the transmission of ethnic and popular traditions; spirituality and
sacerdotal organization; visible and supervisory social hierarchies; the
worship of ancestors; initiatory rites and tests; the reconstruction of
organic communities that extend from the individual family unit to the
overarching national community of the people; the deindividualization of
marriage to involve the community as much as the couple; the end of the
confusion of eroticism and conjugality; the prestige of the warrior
caste; social inequality, not implicit, which is unjust and frustrating,
as in today's egalitarian utopias, but explicit and ideologically
justifiable; a proportioned balance of duties and rights; a rigorous
justice whose dictates are applied strictly to acts and not to
individual men, which will encourage a sense of responsibility in the
latter; a definition of the people and of any constituted social body as
a diachronic community of shared destiny, not as a synchronic mass of
individual atoms, etc....

Obviously, contemporary ideology, hegemonic today but not for much
longer, regards these values as diabolical, much as a mad paranoiac
might see the features of a demon in the psychiatrist trying to cure
him. In reality, they are the values of justice. True to human nature
from time immemorial, these archaic values reject the Enlightenment
error of the emancipation of the individual, which has only ended in the
isolation of this individual and in social barbarism. These archaic
values are /just/, in the Ancient Greek sense of the term, because they
take man for what he is, a /zoon politicon/ ("a social and organic
animal integrated into a communatarian city-state"), and not for what he
is not, an isolated and asexual atom fitted out with universal but
imprescriptible pseudo-rights.

In practical terms, archaism's anti-individualist values permit
self-realization, active solidarity and social peace, unlike
egalitarianism's pseudo-emancipating individualism, which ends in the
law of the jungle.

See full essay here: The Essence of Archaism by Guillaume Faye

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