I’ve never really been a *formal* “New Year Resolution” kind of guy. What I mean is that, like many of you I’m sure, I’m generally a pretty private person all around, and always have been (this is a main reason I have never had a Facebook account, or a Twitter account, for example). As such, I tend not to go about announcing my (short or longer-term) plans of personal betterment for the future with strangers, even when it’s basically innocuous personal self-improvement type stuff like ‘exercising more and eating more heathy’ that virtually all can relate to or identify with. My personal shortcomings (as well as my strong suits) are mostly my own business that few need to know about, other than The Almighty, and a very select few persons within my close circles of kith and kinship.
“Don’t ask me no questions, and I won’t tell you no lies,” as the old adage has it.
That much said, I certainly feel comfortable sharing with y’all at least a couple of personal aspirations I hope (and will strive) to achieve, or at least personal defects I aspire to significantly improve upon, during the course of the next 360 odd days or so; particularly with respect to my participation in Southern Nationalist activities and my related contributions at this site. Two of the main ones are as follows:
- I hope to have the Maury book – The Life and Times of Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas – fully edited and ready for publication by spring of this year. I wrote the draft chapters or the manuscript for the book a long time ago. My plan going forward is to “double-down” on getting the remaining dozen or so chapters edited for publication in the near future, to write an introduction and compile a bibliography, and to gather and organize three to four appendices I intend to add at the back of the published work. (Note: if any of you out there should like to write a Foreword to the book, please by all means let me know);
- Several months ago, I verbally committed to writing one article per month here at Identity Dixie specifically discussing, as some of you might recall, important and interesting historical events as they happened This Month in Confederate History. My initial commitment to that ambition, although sincere enough at the time, wasn’t a very strong one, as evidenced by the fact that only two such articles have emanated from my keyboard since I first announced my intentions of writing them in the first of the two. That is a defect on my part that I fully (and formally) intend to correct in this month and the next eleven months of 2023 to come. I expect some of y’all to strictly hold me to my word if and when I flounder in that renewed commitment; none of us is or should be unaccountable; each of us, especially yours truly, should be held to account for that which we promise, yet fail, to deliver. And no excuse beyond physical or mental disability is good enough; as Southerners and Southern Nationalists, “our word is our bond” is not just a quaint saying we throw around for convenience sake. We need to keep our promises and commitments when at all possible and in spite of “more pressing matters,” whatever they may be or how truthful they are “as far as they go!”
But all of the above was just a prelude to what I’m most interested in learning from you, dear reader: I’m most interested in knowing what some of *your* New Year Resolutions for 2023 are. I’m not asking you to share your “innermost secrets and defects” of course, but those more or less innocuous personal defects and failings (we all have them) of yours you aspire to improve upon or even fully correct in the coming days and months; those natural human shortcomings or ‘less than laudable’ proclivities of yours that you may safely share with the rest of us, “without hesitation or mental reservation.”
Be duly warned, however, that “anything you say can and will be held against you in [the court of Southern Nationalist opinion],” courts of American jurisprudence wholly notwithstanding. Therefore, if at length you decide to “plead the 5th” and exercise your right to remain silent, I for one will perfectly understand and defend your decision to the hilt. No guarantees on how anyone else within our circles will interpret or respond to your “right to remain silent” and to “lawyer-up,” though. Everything has its drawbacks.
I came across a quote from Goethe in my readings recently:
“The Germans are really a strange people. With their profound thoughts and ideas, which they seek everywhere and project into everything, they make life harder for themselves than they should. Oh, that at long last you had the courage for once to yield yourselves to your impressions, to let yourselves be delighted, let yourselves be moved, let yourselves be elevated, yes, to let yourselves be taught and inspired and encouraged for something great; only do not always think that everything is vain if it is not some abstract thought or ideal.” -Goethe, ‘Conversations with Eckermann’, May 6, 1827. p. 11.
Goethe, ‘Faust’, trans. Walter Kaufmann
Our Lord and Master tells us to “be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” It’s my desire in the New Year that the Spirit of God would really teach me what that means for how I live my life going forward.
One supposes that wise serpents are also harmless as doves when they quietly and stealthily slither away from approaching danger and existential threats to their existences. Your quotation has reminded me to ask whether you’ve ever read a little book titled “Germany Must Perish?” As a German and a Confederate, you of course must be eliminated twice over.
Thanks for the always relevant comments, sir.
I haven’t read it, but I’m very familiar with it as being a reason Germany fought so desperately! There’s much I could add, but it kind of makes you proud to arouse such vehement hatred from despicable people.
I read it several years ago. It’s a short read – fewer than two-hundred pages as I recall. That it received rave reviews from the usual suspects and their (American) publications when it was released, goes a long way in explaining quite a lot about that war.
I found it on the Internet Archive and scanned through some of it this morning. Some of it read like the author collaborated with Bruce Catton. I remember talking to an indoctrinated Yankee at the Piper House who told me similar ‘stories’ about the warmongering Confederates who did medical experiments on Northern prisoners. It’s all obvious rubbish to any thinking person, but you’ve probably noticed there aren’t many thinking people in this world. Another really good read along these lines is David Irving’s ‘Nuremberg: The Last Battle’.
I just picked up this book at the thrift shop here out west, it’s called “saving my Assassin” by Virginia Prodan, Virginia chronicles her life in Communist Romania, as a young child she would go to church off hours and pray, what a healthy discipline she had as a child, I wish I could of had such character when I was a child, she studied hard and got good grades and was accepted to take the test for entry into law school. Here’s a question she was asked. What does Persona non grata mean? Her answer from the book: “refers to any Romanian citizen who-according to communist rules and procedures-is considered to be unfaithful or unlawful, either by betraying the rule of silence established by the government, defying or speaking publicly against the government or its leaders”. P. 51
I looked and found out that the Latin translation means “an unwelcome person”.
I’m only half way through the book but the back book cover says she helped take down Ceausescu’s evil empire, I can’t wait to finish it.
German Confederate, I have not yet obtained “from double eagle to red flag” yet, the book I mentioned earlier is sure warming me up to it. I took a look see into the book “Germany must perish” a few years ago myself, what sticks in my mind is a paragraph that said it isn’t enough just to kill Hitler, it wouldn’t have stopped what he had started, all of Germany must parish.
If it’s any consolation, I believe those Germans of NS Germany are in the highest circles of Heaven and I won’t stop defending them to God or man until they become our modern day Saints. To me, Love itself was destroyed in Germany.
Looking forward to reading David Irving’s “Nuremberg: the last battle” also.
God Bless and Protect us all
Your last comment about ‘love itself being destroyed in Germany’ brought to mind a line from Joseph Goebbels’ “Michael: A Novel”:
“The struggle we are now waging today until victory or the bitter end is, in its deepest sense, a struggle between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.”
He also writes about how ‘money is the bane of work’ and that if it becomes an end in itself ‘then it inevitably degrades work into a means to an end.’ … Very insightful when you think about it. Money is the god of Marxism, and it’s a doctrine so ‘devoid of any soul’ that it turns shadow into substance.’
Always good to hear from you. As you’re into Romania right now, I’m hoping Virginia Prodhan makes mention of Corneliu Codreanu, who fought the good fight unremittingly against Bolshevism until it cost him his life. He was a true Romanian hero.
Thank you. I do not know a lot about Red Romania or about Joseph Goebbles work.
I feel you should know about this book.
ONE WOMAN’S WAR by Stella Reader Zervos A diary of an English Woman living in Occupied Greece 1939-1945. 1991.
In it she relates how the Germans acted there, for example, when they had left Greece the Germans paid tribute to the unknown soldier in ceremony. Her friend who had her house occupied said the German Soldier bowed to her as he left with the military. The writer and her husband were inclined toward the English winning that war in their attitude. A real good book I thought you should know about. Especially about surviving an occupation with meager resources.
Also, how the Communist kept fighting in Greece after the war was over to get rid of the Christian King of Greece which they (Bolsheviks) ended up doing.
I found that book I told you about that had the Communist prolonging the War in Spain to get to a war with Germany.
Front book cover. Historical documents 4 Communist intervention in THE SPANISH WAR. Spanish information service.
I hope you see this.
God Bless you Sir
Thanks for the recommendation my friend. I’ll check it out.
The short of Germany Must Perish is that the author proposed the systematic yet “humane” genocide of the entire German population through chemical sterilization. Every last German, including the peace-loving Germans, would have to be sterilized under his plan, because of course the blood of peace-loving Germans was still tainted with the hateful, warmongering type. Therefore, it wasn’t worth the risk of preserving the “good” German strain since to preserve that element and allow them to reproduce would, almost undoubtedly, produce another warmongering generation who would start a third world war. My recollection is that the author (whose ethnicity shall go unnamed) estimated the number of “good Germans” living at the time to be roughly fifteen percent of the whole population, but I could be off on that.
Moses Hess (whose ethnicity shall also go unnamed) goes into more detail in ‘Rome to Jerusalem’ on the grounds for this animus. Germany Must Perish has been on my ‘to read’ list and I will read it, but my blood pressure may spike and I could have a stroke. That’d make ’em happy.
Oh, it’ll make your blood boil, guaranteed! Made mine boil when I read it. Indeed, had I not already developed a deep disliking for the author’s kind prior to reading it, Germany Must Perish would have sealed the deal for me. Not necessarily because of what one solitary you know whatish man wrote in that book, but because, as I stated above, it received rave reviews upon release from the broader you know whatish mass media outlets and the world you know whatish congress.