Germen

A people’s or civilisation’s biological root — the core of ethnicity — upon which everything else rests.

In Latin, germen means ‘germ’, ‘seed’. If a culture is lost, recovery is possible. When the biological germen is destroyed, nothing is possible. The germen is comparable to a tree’s roots. If the trunk is damaged or the foliage cut down, the tree can recover. But not if its roots are lost. The comparison holds for civilisations. The germen represents a people’s ethno-biological roots; the trunk represents the popular culture, the foliage the civilisation. Nothing is lost if the germen, the roots, are saved. This metaphor obviously applies to Europe, whose germen is now gravely threatened.

Contrary to the dominant ideology, this concept implies that cultures and civilisations rest (not uniquely but mainly) on distinct flesh-and-blood populations, as well as on their physical and cultural heritages — that is, on the real, on life — on relatively invariable bio-genetic characteristics. To deny these biological factors is as intelligent and effective as denying the Earth’s roundness, the circulation of blood, heliocentrism, or the evolution of the species — as the spiritual and intellectual ancestors of the present dominant ideology once did.

The germen is inalienable, it’s not the property of some individual fantasy, but is transmitted by every member as he transmits his line. A people can be reborn if its culture is destroyed or if its religion or spirituality are forgotten. It can recover its ancestral heritage and respond to the appeal of traditions preserved in memory, making them live again. But if the germen is damaged, no renaissance is possible (or if it is, it’s artificial).

That’s why the struggle against race-mixing, depopulation, and the alien colonisation of Europe is even more important than mobilising for one’s cultural identity and political sovereignty. All these causes are important, but there’s an order of priority based on absolute necessity.

(see consciousness, ethnic; identity; race, racism, anti-racism)