THE RETURN OF THE PROMETHEAN WEST
America is the purest distillation of what is essentially the West. Other constituents of the West have given so much ground they are nearly un-recognizable. Today in America, the titanic world-spirit of the West has been unshackled.
The worldview which permeated neoclassicism, empire, rationalism and the inheritance of the Enlightenment which died in World War I seeded and gave way to a pessimistic, industrial darkness of the 20th century.
Positive vision and ideals for Man gave way to a terror toward Man’s genuine, outpouring nature of forthright industrious power and confidence. The terror toward all things deeply engendering of human power and freedom led by the Bolshevik Revolution gripped the West with a kind of soft gearworks.
The world came to be viewed through frame of the factory floor, complete with the edification of the factory floor managerial class. Pre-industrial predilections towards slavery were transposed onto a managerial, bureaucratic down-regulating of human ebullience as a deliberate desire to degrade natural human variance. It mattered not that variance means profitability, agency and invention if it also meant antagonism to the commissariat.
This ideology was born of a bizarre moment in a faraway corner of the world. A baseline mixture of agrarian superstition paired with the new encounter with mechanization sparked a reverent fascination with the machenschaft of managerial socialism that was common to Russian Bolsheviks and Chinese Maoists. In our own culture this was transposed onto the system of colonial empire management to become its own neobolshevik ideology and statist religion. All things, including nature, thought, culture, aesthetics, gender strength, technological science and even human life were enframed as standing reserves to be collateralized. The religion sought to deny the possibility of encountering being in an original or meaningful way.
We must be relentless in asking ourselves how we allowed our culture to be colonized by this bizarre blueprint.
An explosion of mortgaging and re-hypothecation of every collateral source ensued. And along with it, all immune system responses geared toward the protection and cultivation of this capital such as the nation state, in-group preference and prosocial community. No stone was left unturned. Religions, academia, deep state “democracy,” the arts and architecture, the family, the mere notion of the individuated psyche. Like a burrowing chigger, an entire generation engorged on the liquidation of this cultural, technological, financial and psychospiritual collateral. All barriers to the engorging were denigrated as features of a “closed society,” and targeted for denaturing into “open societies,” along with a pervasive plan to anonymize us to the past and to each other.
It was the central bank-powered US state which inherited the global trade and banking system of the British pound. It enrolled Americans in defending a global order to enforce these onslaughts of dehumanizing bayonet-guarded propagandizing. A removed and uncountable, USAID-financed managerial caste was ensconced over this apparatus with rural Americans as the muscle. In doing so, what once was an image of the highest good as a cultural and social guide was removed entirely and replaced with the belief that the cultural features of a “closed society” were the highest evil. A moving toward higher ideals was replaced with a moving away from dangerous ones. This era of darkness was deconstructionist and negational, ruled by forced entropy, depreciation, constriction and angramaiynu. The era was defined by policies of artificial scarcity and defending against the natural outpouring human will to power and spentamaiynu. Instead of ideals of positive moral virtues, the basics of human nature and culture were to be dismantled and dissolved. Strong societies are dangerous societies to the political class whose livelihoods are driven by sociological and technological liquidation.
The genetic denaturing the nation state through mass illegal importation of non-Westerners into the West was the front line of the neobolshevik project and was always deeply racist from the beginning. The part of the soul that houses the thumos and the Promethean will to industrious creativity had been denigrated.
Europe lost the ability even to conceive of itself as worth defending. It has relied on the high-thumos heartland of America as the stand-in while retreating inside managerial safetyism and fear of the basic nature of Man. Far from trying to abolish the nation state as the EU claims to aim for, it has an engineered dependency on the exported power of the nation state from America. Open society safetyism was always dependent on closed society thumos. The EU as a product of globalization is about to lose its sponsor.
Europe’s refusal to produce these cultural goods is the product of bureaucratic, corruption, fear and entitlement around a subsistence diet imported from the American heartland. Closing the gates on this triangle of trade constitutes the beginnings of a breakaway West housed inside America. As Europe remains washes out, America densifies. It calls Europe to unshackle itself from the neobolshevik bureaucracy and re-embrace the originary Promethean qualities which built it. To free itself spiritually, economically, technologically and aesthetically to be industrious creators once again.
Today is the day we unshackle the heat from the forge and usher in a Golden Age of Promethean creative power. To usher in a new vision of Western Greatness to surpass what we once enjoyed.
Our time is characterized by a rejection of safetyism and a renewed comfort with unborrowed vision. Our time embodies anew the essence of the West as the essence of Prometheus, the titan of thumos, the titan of “you can just do things.” The historic 2024 election, its affirmation of brashness and rightful confidence, marked the arrival at long last of the average American to his roots once again. There is a desire to embrace civilizational superiority while not embracing Hobbesian coercive statism. It is the elevation of decisive creative will as an artifact of paternal provisioning in the manner that Prometheus provisioning his creation, Mankind, with techne. It is a desire to recruit every weapon, technological, economic and cultural, to bear down on these enemies of Man.
And to do this, we are called to reinvent what Heidegger called the weltenwurf, the pre-reflective world blueprint. The West’s Promethean destiny is to project this poetic design schematic onto the world. This unshackling accompanies the righteous glee, the storming of the bastille, the wreckage of the torture apparatus underneath the office of commissar.
What is the aesthetic tenor and personality of the weltenwurf? What is the organic, Dionysian, ground-up teaming of new vision. It must be forged in the heat of a new, psychologically independent generation. It is not a “latching-onto” of prior inevitabilities, it is a self-generated product of heroism, creativity, dedication and beauty.
The schism of worldview warfare, that a bureaucracy should be afraid of the citizen in favor of entropy and civilization-eroding toxicities, is being collapsed. This is a great moment for the West. It is a moment which deserves a great monument to the poeisis of the Forerunner. It deserves a temple to self-originating thumos.
The message of the monument is for young people, like a bronze bell clanging into the cosmos.
Ignore the broken culture which sends you a message that you are bad because you have nobility and power. That wants you to be an androgynous idiot who falls in lock step with no individuality or judgment, who think the same, talk the same and act the same. That wants you to cut away your courage and your strength and outsource the deciding to a bureaucracy and propaganda network.
This monument will be built to lift up men’s spirits in triumph and heroism – that creative ingenuity is heroic and selfhood is sacrosanct. Great damage has been done to our way of life. Great industriousness will be required to rebuild it. The monument proclaims that the vision and the blueprint for this building is sacred, and disavowing it a sacrilege. We build it to honor the nobility in the hearts of our children and the young people of scores of generations to come.
Wrest The Flame.
