One Cannot Serve Both God and Mammon

The title of this article is a saying I learned from Identity Dixie (ID). To me, as a non-American and someone who is generally quite opposed to the U.S., as it is the American Empire that has its boot(s) on our necks and keeps any European nation from self-assertion and sovereignty. In addition to that oppression, the Empire poisons us with its culture, which dillutes our languages, our sayings, even our fables, folktales, and habits – everything is Americanized. However, Identity Dixie has been a source of some hope that the Southern people, under the yoke of the American Empire, can embrace their own freedom, liberty, and spark a revival in Southern identity.

I should perhaps introduce myself. I am Faust, a Dutch Nationalist and Germanicist, and I was once on the Rebel Yell podcast, this was years ago when it was still on TRS and I have been an avid follower before and since. Identity Dixie and Rebell Yell are not necessarilly interesting as Southern identitarians, even though as people have noted the Confederate flag has become a symbol of rebellion everywhere and you will sometimes see it even in the Netherlands. More than confederacy and rebellion against modernity, ID and Rebel Yell have been interesting as a platform of actual neo-reaction, with a focus on economics and middle-class identity; this is the actual formula for success moving forward.

This is why I chose the title of this article. “One Cannot Serve Both God and Mammon” and “High-Low versus Middle” are very important messages that can win a huge amount of people to our cause. Here in the Netherlands, people think much more in economic and class terms, something generally true for northern Europe. And, any movement without an economic message will never win over the middle-class or the politically aware working-class. I have taken the message of Identity Dixie, that nationalism is the ideology of the productive versus the parasite, and have been attempting to spread it to a Dutch audience. In this sense, the more data driven right-leaning platforms like Zero Hedge also play a role, and the moral message of Identity Dixie is best expanded upon with data, like explaining central banking, explaining fiat, and inflation. Attacking usury and supporting productivity should be a vital part of our platform.

Not just that, but we should not underestimate what the future holds. Technology is rapidly outpacing our ability to deal with it in a social context. Communication technology and cheap and fast travel have deregulated our patterns of living and information absorption. Humanity, evolved over the past 20,000 years to live in tribal groups of a few hundred people either hunting or farming with the seasons, is maladapted to a society that demands the ability to constantly deal with new information and innovation. Human society is already unable to deal with the technological innovation of the last century on any kind of scale, and it is only accelerating. We may well within the next century develop an AI more intelligent than any human, which could be our extinction. Embryo selection and CRISPR have the potential to change the median human to such a degree that we will not recognise it (imagine a 200 IQ average of giants with no propensity for disease). Usury, technology, and exploitation are things we have to get a handle on fast. If we do not, we will not only see a brazillification on racial grounds, but an increasing class divide not only financially but also, potentially, genetically. The wealthy, who will frequently have gotten their ill-begotten wealth through usury, will be able to pay for genetic improvements to themselves and their children above the standard of the common man, causing an inequality in our very genetic makeup.

It looks more and more like the true dystopian setting that accurately predicted the future was Cyberpunk, with a dash of Brave New World for seasoning. Megacorporations are already frequently more powerful than governments, or perhaps it is better to say, corporations and governments collude to allow the powerful to dodge our laws – in Western governments, that is. China and Russia don’t allow businessmen to humiliate or exploit them the way we in the West allow agenda-setting lobbyism and tax dodging. Money buys power in our nations and elite money is earned dishonestly. So, we already have overly powerful megacorps and gene alteration and things like google glass and pacemakers are just early steps towards cybernetics. Defund the police and we will have corporate police, enforcing laws only for those who pay. Automatization and gene alteration are destroying the ability of anyone under 100 IQ to compete in the market and they will be made superfluous. We are heading to a Cyberpunk future, but with no neon lights.

And, it is in that context that Southerners can make a difference. The American Empire, such as it is today, is the way Satan enters the world. It is the Empire’s financial and cultural power that truly destroys nations, more than the boots of the U.S. soldier. The American Empire is the main way these changes get spread and implemented across the world and America is the reason that any technological development will be only in favour of usurious elites and destructive to the common man. The end of the American Empire would mean a multipolar world of authentic cultures more able to deal with what is coming at us in the form of automatization, gene therapy, cybernetics and so on.  

“American culture” these days, even though it is fair to say that half of what is called American culture is not “American” or for that matter “culture,” is what poisons the public discourse everywhere and makes honest debate impossible. I have made videos addressing this, mainly relying on the concept of “spooks” by Stirner. American and, by extension, Western discourse is poisoned by spooks. Race, to an extent, is a spook. Inequality, environmentalism, and immigration, although they do matter, are all spooks. Because, the first and primary issue to address is elite power and exploitation of labour. You cannot solve any of the other issues without breaking the system such as it is. Reform is very, very unlikely to solve anything, if it can even be implemented.

Therefore, anything that reduces elite power is something I encourage. Southern separatism? Well, why not. It seems to have a very romantic allure, something Ivanhoe-esque even, to its supporters. And without art and romance, you cannot appeal to those that matter. But, you cannot do so either without clear goals and economic carrots to hand out. Southern separatism and productivist economics are things I would support even if only to break the back of the Empire, removing the corrupt elite, and establishing a multipolar world. I also think it is a moral stance to let a man keep the sweat of his brow and to let a people have their own nation; inasmuch, as anyone in the West today still knows who they are. Again, we don’t have much time to act before even the very notion of ourselves is eroded.

Another reason to support Southern separatism is that Europe never had a single hegemon since Rome, which itself was an interlude in many ways, and became what it was through eternal conflict and competition between the many small polities and nations. From a Darwinian perspective, it is very likely that it was the constant internecine warfare that made Europeans the high IQ inventors of modernity that we are. Splitting up the Empire in different states would not only solve geopolitical, racial and, economic issues, but it would also create incentives for collective self improvement for the inhabitants of North America. Yes, I am a Social Darwinist, could you tell?

All in all, good going Identity Dixie and Rebel Yell, you are one of the best voices in this movement of what we can probably call International Nationalism, with a clear moral message, with a strong position on economics, and a voice that adds to the conversation. That is why I wrote this piece, to stick a feather in your cap. Additionally, the purpose of this piece is to motivate any readers to broaden their horizons and not be stuck only in the past but consider what the future will bring. Or, perhaps, what the future will do to us if we don’t grapple and control it.

-By Faust Lanser

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