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07-25-2005, 09:14 PM
Natural Resources
by Vijay Prozak
www.nationalistpartyusa.com
In the last years of the nineteenth century, a writer named Max Nordgau put forth a series of propositions that indicated the quality of human beings was declining. Citing a range of examples and measurements, he pointed out that greatness had left us shortly after the industrial revolution took us out of daily competition for survival within nature. What was required in this new age was to hold a job, not offend anyone, and to specialize rather than being a self-sustaining organism which could adapt to any environment.
Nordgau wrote after industrialization had been in process for a scant two and a half centuries; now, a hundred plus years later, we find his concepts enduring even if we place new language to them. Thanks to the influence of industrialization on our language, we tend to refer to things not yet shaped into products as "natural resources," and it makes sense that we consider our first natural resource ourselves.
Intelligence is not bestowed after birth, but before; someone born with a median intelligence will never be one of the intellectual greats of his or her society, and someone born without a tendency toward healthy acts will never be a good leader. What happens after birth can destroy this fragile potential, as is the case with the rampant child abuse that seems to plague the industrialized west, but even the best education cannot compensate for a lack of sufficient raw material.
The century before Nordgau's pronouncement was one of great invention, great art and influential philosophy; it was a golden age, like the last few moments of rich sunlight before the sun submerges beneath the horizon. While some took this to be a culmination of humanity up to that point, others saw it as a desperate attempt to put into tangible form all of what was being lost. Since in the years following, we have seen many creations but far fewer great ones, it makes sense to consider the latter supposition realistic.
What fundamentally changed during the time leading up to this golden age was the rise of what we call "modernity," or modern society...
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by Vijay Prozak
www.nationalistpartyusa.com
In the last years of the nineteenth century, a writer named Max Nordgau put forth a series of propositions that indicated the quality of human beings was declining. Citing a range of examples and measurements, he pointed out that greatness had left us shortly after the industrial revolution took us out of daily competition for survival within nature. What was required in this new age was to hold a job, not offend anyone, and to specialize rather than being a self-sustaining organism which could adapt to any environment.
Nordgau wrote after industrialization had been in process for a scant two and a half centuries; now, a hundred plus years later, we find his concepts enduring even if we place new language to them. Thanks to the influence of industrialization on our language, we tend to refer to things not yet shaped into products as "natural resources," and it makes sense that we consider our first natural resource ourselves.
Intelligence is not bestowed after birth, but before; someone born with a median intelligence will never be one of the intellectual greats of his or her society, and someone born without a tendency toward healthy acts will never be a good leader. What happens after birth can destroy this fragile potential, as is the case with the rampant child abuse that seems to plague the industrialized west, but even the best education cannot compensate for a lack of sufficient raw material.
The century before Nordgau's pronouncement was one of great invention, great art and influential philosophy; it was a golden age, like the last few moments of rich sunlight before the sun submerges beneath the horizon. While some took this to be a culmination of humanity up to that point, others saw it as a desperate attempt to put into tangible form all of what was being lost. Since in the years following, we have seen many creations but far fewer great ones, it makes sense to consider the latter supposition realistic.
What fundamentally changed during the time leading up to this golden age was the rise of what we call "modernity," or modern society...
Read the Rest Here:
http://www.nationalistpartyusa.com/VP.htm#natural