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Hallstatt
May 25th, 2004, 10:00 AM
Some thoughts on art, race and religion:

Any religious, artistic, cultural or political theory that does not affirm the basic motivation of biology behind all human intellectual theories is at least false and probably deceptive. With this in mind the greatest art and the greatest epochs of art creation are linked to periods when art affirmed a people and what that people held sacred. Classic art philosophy is based in the affirmation of the sacred within the race and the racial culture.

The artist is a religious and cultural warrior, related to the political warrior. Great art has always been influenced by heroic struggles. Could one think of a more powerful and potentially tragic subject for art today than the decline and death of our race? Our race may become extinct. Evolution could be turned backward. This is a theme worthy of a Homer or Shakespeare. We have the tragic choice between a racial religion/ethnostate, or the debauchery of a borderless world, and extinction. It requires courage in the artist---which is rare in artists---yet alone in other men.

Rather than try to revive the art of the nineteenth century it would be better to revive the philosophical base of great artistic expression throughout Western history: the affirmation of the sacred in art, the affirmation of the things that the race and religion and state hold sacred. Reviving or saving a declining or even dying race and culture is a sacred cause. Technique, style, and form can follow this epic function.

This means that in art it is not the technique, style or form that matters most---vital as these things are---it is the affirmation of the race that matters most. Art should be defined not so much in terms of traditional or modern but in terms of affirmation or denial. We create culture to enhance --or affirm---ourselves. To do otherwise is suicide, lies, ignorance, or nihilism.

Godhood is defined as Ultimate Beauty. This is the highest aesthetic. The totality of enjoyment that comes when thought and feeling in art are blended is only a mere reference to the totality achieved when evolution actually attains Godhood, when life achieves the purpose of the Will-To-Godhood, when we achieve the goal of evolution, which is Godhood.

Hallstatt
May 26th, 2004, 09:22 AM
To enlarge on the above post: with Modernism in the arts, change, creative change is considered good, but the one anchor, the one constant, is biology, which is ignored in Modernism.

With biology as the anchor, certain values enter the art philosophy that would not otherwise in value-free Modernism. The affirmation of the race, of evolution, and eventually of superman leading to Godhood, enter the picture when biology is not excluded. Art connected to biology affirms the race.

But within this structure evolution is welcome, even constant change and evolution.

Change without the anchor of biology can lead to change for the sake of change, decline, simplification and nihilism. Modern artists eventually can’t create any more. When shock value and sensation no longer apply, then they face nothingness. Eventually, art becomes so distanced from biology that it is not art any more.

Hallstatt
May 26th, 2004, 11:04 AM
I like the art from ancient Greece alot. And the gothic type.

I agree. The art from ancient Greece and the Gothic type are linked to periods when art affirmed a people and what that people held sacred. I think the greatest art is based in the affirmation of the sacred within the race and the racial culture.

Some day we will want to have our own racial art again, for our own time.