Traditional man and country

[jgk3]

Re: Traditional man and country

that's awesome to hear Anon

[jgk3]

Re: Traditional man and country

When you say "Left, Right, and Center throughout the land", do you mean their actual physical locations......or do you mean they all have various internal/spiritual views but are a united front when it comes time for war.

their actual physical locations.

When you say different classes and ranks, do you mean there are set-in-stone groups people are born into and can't get out of (Nobility,Peasantry, Etc.)...or do you mean the various cliques people eventually fit themselves into as they grow older?

They are set in stone... but for those who consistently prove themselves worthy within their own ranks and show a spirit that can take on the responsibility associated with a higher rank, there is the possibility of promoting oneself, by decree of their tribe, to this higher rank. This exists in many military traditions. A most worthy example is Tacitus' description of the Germanic armies that invaded Rome, called Wuotanes Hari (which has the Germanic meaning of Frenzied Army/Army of Odin): Men, or sons of men who have shown their merit in the past, are eligible to participate in higher orders or responsibility, function, and also honour within their society. In this manner, one can (overtime or after a few generations), eventually assume the level of being a princeps (or allowing this possibility for his descendants), who has his own army. The currency is valour and virtue, proven before the eyes of your own people. That is the entire point.

However, this kind of ascension cannot be possible if you democratize the criterion to participate in a highly specific social function. A priest cannot function as a king, a serf cannot function as a monk. It is a choice for the civilization in question to define what degree of heredity is involved for each of the classes. Most often, you tend to find a more rigid basis for this in dividing the peasantry, clergy and nobility, yet you find in the case of several usurpers of higher classes a lowly birth, who have proven themselves worthy, before the eyes of their entire civilization, that they had the wit and the ability to lay claim to a higher rank victoriously. This again, is the entire point. It weeds out the cancerous individuals who are not worthy of the class they are sitting on.

Yet still, the general condition is as follows: your rank and function is well defined, escaping it is a heresy and rightly so, because it reverses the entire social order you live in. Those who know this, know who they are and what their purpose is towards their civilization. They can participate in honour by doing their task as it is specified by their sacred traditions, or likewise... succumb to dishonour or alienation by failing to do so. This kind of system has maximized a peoples' vigour towards attaining honour in mastering the responsibilities associated with their personal rank/function, all clearly laid out by their timeless traditional doctrines, doctrines which if tampered with for purposes of "modernization", especially when it comes to loyalty towards sacred royal rituals (including sacrifices to the main divinities), signal the end of tradition itself, and thus, a peoples' ability to rely on a spiritual means for ascension towards the divine as a coherent tribe/race.

What do traditions when adhered to mean for feminism? gay rights? socialism? Democracy? Most probably their absence from society altogether. Why? Because you've killed the modern man, that worm-like state of a man that women, gay people, social rights activists, etc... try to attain for themselves to partake in his "rewards" for his behavior. But ask your motley crew of social rights activists if they'd ever like to be the kind of man who gets his hands bloody fulfilling his warrior obligations in order to serve and protect his traditions, his loyalty towards his brothers in arms and towards his king?

Haha, they would likely answer "why are you so hung up about war... why can't we all live in peace!" And that is precisely why they are not fit for this kind of role... They'd rather believe in fantasies than about the nature of ultimate reality: "Death is always near, but fear it not for you are divine and can participate in ordeals which involve the possibility of death" and this is precisely what defines the traditional man in battle, or in service characteristic of men.

Ask women, or children to do such a thing... Go on. You may find some who have the potential to do so, you may find that in some traditions, you have more women and children who know of this than in other societies, but also note that in their societies, it is still understood that the archetype for this kind of psyche is the man, not the non-initiated, nor the women.

Egalitarianism has not done service to mankind... it has precisely robbed men of knowledge towards their very nature, reducing them to the proletariat... human capital, a disgrace.

Also this question:
What liberties would be guaranteed for the people in this kind of system? Speech and expression? Armed population? Property and privacy? Spiritual/Religious Believes?

This is up for the particular civilization to decide. We don't need to look at this issue in a complex manner, you have a well defined role, you have laws, you always serve a class that is superior to your own until you reach the king, who is spiritually the bridge between his people and the gods ("Arevordi"s for example in the case of Armenians), but all abide to the traditional guidelines and rituals set out by a force that is to be seen as immaterial and immortal, timeless and primordial.

I do not advocate, much like modern (democratic) movements do, that there is some kind of ideal social organization for all of mankind. That is total bs and all it does is destroy the plurality of civilization on the earth, reducing all of man to the same mediocrity, whereby the psyche is one of mundane, fatalistic and de-spiritualized sense of existence and purpose.

Modern science is used as an attempt to fill this gap, because it's supposed to apply to all of us and the universe... it is like cough drops, or a piece of candy for the every day worker to hear about some scientific "breakthrough" that really, does not tend to help them know more about themselves and what kind of mess of an existence they live in. This is why science is only interesting and worthy of pursuit if you have made it your "class", that is, if you are a scientist. But neither popular media, nor the ideologies propounded by "science" (including the atheist phenomenon we witness today), is using it this way. Their agenda, whether consciously known by its adherents or not, also obscures man from his traditionalism by trying to prove that the latter's cosmology, mysticism and esoteric doctrines are rubbish, obsolete ways of thinking.

Science does not need to become such an antagonistic, modernistic movement once it has been accepted that its scope is most productive when it is dedicated for observing and proving insight towards individualized phenomenon occurring in the universe. In order to answer bigger questions about the workings of the macrocosm, of ultimate reality, you may use your knowledge of individualized phenomenon, but combine them with the same approach man has used since he began observing the stars in the sky... creativity, imagination, sensation of the workings of the universe. Essentially, it is of the same spirit that man has used in receiving the traditional divine doctrines he has held to be sacred in the past and felt compelled towards when setting up an order to be followed by his tribe. For a scientist to deny their own creativity, imagination, etc... in a "holier than thou" kind of way, in an attempt to perhaps adhere to the scientific method in a more "absolute" way, is comparable to a devout priest castrating himself in an attempt to appease God by trying to "better avoid sin".

To return to the consequences of all this modern ideology on the masses, when your average unintelligent, unzealous slob gets home from a 9 hour shift, he's not going to buckle down and read (even) a 20 page scientific article about a topic that interests him, and he knows as much about the scientific method as he does about the methods used by any highly specialized social class/function, nada. Science is just not going to enlarge the state of consciousness for the modern masses or direct them to any less of a meaningless, distracted, impotent existence.

[Muhaha]

Re: Traditional man and country

The kind of system I propose is a kingdom of confederated princedoms, appearing left right and center throughout the land and who are united as a single spirit in war.

When you say "Left, Right, and Center throughout the land", do you mean their actual physical locations......or do you mean they all have various internal/spiritual views but are a united front when it comes time for war.

Decentralized power, laws of exchange and interactions to be adhered to between the different classes and ranks of society, laws which if not adhered to, pose a consequence of spiritual alienation from ones class/rank (similar to what happens in traditional Hindu society when one betrays their caste).

When you say different classes and ranks, do you mean there are set-in-stone groups people are born into and can't get out of (Nobility,Peasantry, Etc.)...or do you mean the various cliques people eventually fit themselves into as they grow older?

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Also this question:
What liberties would be guaranteed for the people in this kind of system? Speech and expression? Armed population? Property and privacy? Spiritual/Religious Believes?

[Anush]

Re: Traditional man and country

Bravo!

[jgk3]

Re: Traditional man and country

agreed.

[jgk3]

I wrote all this originally in my response to 'The Ideal Armenia' thread, trying to explain what is to me both the most sensible and self-realized form of spiritual order for a race, that dwells both internally in its people and manifests itself in all their institutions, a choice for those who want to ascend the decadence and spiritual blindness of the modern civlization (or lack thereof) we live in today, especially in western countries.

(The following paragraph might feel like a shock of total backwardness to many, but I encourage you to read on, I have points that follow which explain why I have chosen this structure):

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The kind of system I propose is a kingdom of confederated princedoms, appearing left right and center throughout the land and who are united as a single spirit in war. Decentralized power, laws of exchange and interactions to be adhered to between the different classes and ranks of society, laws which if not adhered to, pose a consequence of spiritual alienation from ones class/rank (similar to what happens in traditional Hindu society when one betrays their caste).

If one wishes to ascend the condition of their soul within this system, they must do so via an internalized path, that is, spiritual ascendancy, which manifests itself through valor and virtue externally, to be seen by the eyes of others. This is in fact the opposite of what we do in our modern society, where the majority seek to ascend their condition via material means, totally abandoning this idea of internal ascendancy, and in many cases, the idea of the soul altogether. It is not hard to see thus why lifestyles based on virtue and valor are not emphasized in our media or stories as they once were. Rather, we emphasize emotional states of pleasure and ecstasy, for example through stories of romance, or self exhibition just for the sake of drawing attention, and last but not least, a vague and obscurantist theme called 'freedom' (which in reality is just anarachy against a given authority or social order, and most often leads to the masses being cheated for their support of an alternative governing class), as the highest ideal. This pays service to none when left unchecked, except towards one's own selfish internal void of desire to be something they are not. Thus, it is the rejection of one`s personal nature by obsessing with artificially created shallow ideals as the basis for one`s identity.

In a system based on valor and virtue, it is equally dangerous for a tyrant to disobey the spiritual, ritualistic obligations of his particular role as leader and instead pursue materialistic benefit, as it would be for a serf, a clergyman, an artisan, a merchant, a scientist or a warrior. Not only is it dangerous for one's personal consciousness (as one can never feed all of one's eternal desires, can never bring cessation to the emotional disturbances caused by their lack of wisdom), but it can prove to be cataclysmic if left unchecked for the entire fabric of the civilization made up of its individual, well defined roles for its people (where each one is supposed to serve and lead in its own, well defined way. These divisions and differentiations, ironically to some, are the actual basis for harmony in which people can lead and follow accordingly to their respective natures and with their own personal virtue towards the sacred principles found at the bottom of their civilization's traditions). When the traditional, timeless order of a civilization is broken, it signals the downfall for a traditional society, the subversion of its leadership by individuals who'd prefer to destroy all its traditional laws and rituals for their own self centered benefit (and leading the masses with banners and ideologies that teach them to start doing the same, all the while restricting them to the same lowly materialistic existence they always assumed. The masses gain nothing, but are actually robbed of their ability to participate in a system of valor and virtue).

The most horrible result of all is... precisely what we have today... where the majority actually reserve their own personalities to an extremely microcosmic existence that trusts nobody and only tries to survive, or perhaps, cheat others in order to secure more resources unnecessarily. This occurs because of a deep rooted paranoia of being taken for a ride by their "leaders". After this goes on for too many generations, people actually start to think that power and high rank is associated with greed and is fundamentally "bad/evil", not realizing that these are not natures of man, but instruments or outfits which he must wear and use accordingly to the dictum of his consciousness, which can be positive or destructive for his civilization. Modern man is reserved to considering superheros, such as Superman, as the only type of people who can wear such outfits. They reserve such good use of power and "supernatural qualities/rank" to mythical characters, and not as possibilities for actual men. This is very defeatist and is something I cannot agree with.

Basically, the reason why I'd like a kingdom based on rank, valor and virtue is because it is the best earthly realization of a system that allows man to look upwards, living for ascendancy via his own internal spirit, rather than downwards, towards measuring his status based on materialistic considerations (be they based on love for tyrannic control, greed or other materialized desires), using his emotions as the main basis for guidance which ultimately leads him to dissatisfaction and towards achieving alienation from a spirit that is greater than himself, working instead towards an abysmal, self-destructive obsession towards the self.