Liberty: Liberties
An individual’s or a people’s capacity to act according to their own will — a capacity gained by discipline and founded on the multiplication of competence and freedom.
The ‘free man’ has long been a model for European society, in opposition to the barbarians and slaves of Greek thought. Today, the concept of ‘liberty’ has suffered a veritable inversion of meaning, as has the term ‘democracy’. Liberty nowadays signifies what was once called ‘slavery’, since it’s confused with a permissiveness that leads to a certain kind of servitude. In contrast, real liberty is the faculty of augmenting one’s power, of multiplying one’s capacity to affect the real, and, through autonomy, of overcoming determinism. This conception opposes individualistic and egalitarian notions of liberty — conceived as forms of passive license or the absence of constraints. The slavery — that comes from the dominant ready-to-think ideology and prevents the people and its defenders from openly expressing their convictions and demands — is enforced by a thought police, an obligatory xenophilia, the interdiction of direct democracy, and the power of judges.
Defined as a global, abstract concept during the French Revolution of 1789, Liberty opposes liberties. Taken in this way, as an absolute, freedom becomes a cold, totalitarian concept. Western society no more defends liberty than did Communist society, for it fosters a general conformity in which the permissiveness toward various delinquencies goes hand-in-hand with the repression of all legitimate opposition.
The exercise of liberty presupposes discipline and order, authority and the rule of law. The laissez-faire of today’s school system, which leaves young minds completely uncultivated, is preparing the way for future barbarians and slaves. Above all, the free man is master of himself — thanks to the discipline enhancing his possibilities.
A free people decides its destiny for the longue durée. Today, for example, the population-replacing colonisation of Islam and the South is a symbol of Europe’s loss of liberty. It’s part of the same process that subjects Europe to America’s sphere of influence and diminishes her political and economic independence. Even individual liberty, gnawed at by the demission of the public powers before the social jungle, is affected: laxity toward delinquency, indifference to the social-economic exclusion of native Europeans, etc. In these and other domains, the singular dogma of ‘Liberty’ undermines the people’s liberties. One might paraphrase Big Brother here, with his formula: ‘Freedom is slavery’. And vice versa.
We are living through a strange, paradoxical situation — a situation of regime end: the public powers never cease regulating, monitoring, oppressing, taxing — gently and skilfully ostracising those who create and work — as it dispenses tolerance and advantage to delinquents, illegals, and lowlifes. For the regnant ideology, everything that is ‘Other’ has every right and no duty. Everything that is native and follows the natural law has only duties and is always suspect. The system endeavours to make free men slaves, and helots[1] free men. The Roman Empire died from this.
Given the demission of the public authorities before delinquencies of every kind, public freedoms have receded for authentic citizens, now deprived not just of the right to security, but victimised by arbitrary taxes and regulatory infringements. For the sake of legitimating itself, the state creates a simulacrum of new freedoms (PACs,[2] racial quotas, vaguely-designated ‘rights’ for vaguely-designated subjects, feminist laws, homophile and xenophile laws, etc.), while in the real world it’s increasingly restrictive, regulative, spying, overtaxing — discouraging every initiative, and indifferent to the collapse of public safety and the civil spirit. Globally speaking, everything that is deviant and delinquent is the object of benevolent tolerance, everything that is creative, inventive, productive, and identitarian is suspect and repressed. Even freedom of thought is no longer assured, since the politically correct (whose principal dogmas are anti-racism and the prohibition of identitarian reflexes) controls every social sphere. Freedom to think and express oneself is restricted to secondary spheres, affecting mainly those on the margins of society and deviants, particularly in respect to sexual matters.
All this is quite normal and has occurred before in history. To what conception of liberty and liberties, then, should we attach ourselves? The first rule must be a people’s ethnic freedom to determine its own destiny. The people’s will ought to transcend the authority of judges, censors, and experts. Disembodied and abstract moral principles are not to be imposed on the popular will, just as the popular will must be allowed to determine its own distinct principles.
The second rule is that the sovereign function, the public power, must guarantee social order and civic discipline, with the aim of preserving both individual and communal freedoms. There is no freedom without a legal order conforming to the natural law: there’s no freedom without authority.
(see democracy, organic)
- ↑ Helots were a group in some of the ancient Greek city-states which fell somewhere in the hierarchy between slaves and free men.
- ↑ PACS, or pacte civil de solidarité, is a type of civil union in France which is available to same-sex couples as well as traditional couples, although it gives fewer rights than does marriage.
