In one of our issue's final selection, "The Center of Things," inspired by a phrase from William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), we consider the collapse of a central Idea in the West and how this shift in the mass consciousness impacts the individual, tying together themes from the preceding poems from this issue
It yields and today's impromptu invention is sealed upon
yesterday's exigency as a course of brick upon the last course,
the provisional is become permanent, of necessity, the author of all
our involuntary circumstances.
We invent and, always lacking, always without,
create within that narrow condition, which Fate
and choices of those before us have foreordained.
Promises tied up to kin, tied up in the red cloth of loyalty,
then tributes to vocations, to principalities, to convention,
and time is pressed against us- always too short.
The Center will not hold, and crumbles, floods in on us
detretus of failed societies; all that held it was an idea
which stretched from Mandalay to Hudson's Bay,
but within was wrapped another, anathema to the first,
within the Saxon's shield of rule a matzos filling.
And "law" became the banditry of scriveners-
got beyond all service to fact or right of tribe-
reality by decree, devoid of truth, turned by the key of gold,
as would someday decree all equal
and all weal to non-producers.
The Center did not hold,
and lost from it Achilles, Agamemnon, Homer-
homo occidentalis agonistes-
heroes stirred folk to greatness, set standard
to last in column and plaza,
sacrificed to the last great debauchment- sacrificed gods
and sons, to the baseness of humanity, making
that baseness justified- accepted in the works-
at the secret Semites' learnÃ¨d pen,
the Light-bearer of Zeus rewritten as a
whipping boy of the goyim- myth built upon myth
and fantasy reroots all into the desert-
priests become lenders- the payroll of princes
and kings spawned from shekels not from kin.
The Center did not hold,
for in its center the village-
and each produced and each received-
then the new plan of things, a town about a church-
and all flowed upward, all wealth heaven-bound
centralized to treasuries, to nobles, and beyond-
tax and tithe rob from all pockets
and production to central banks and nation
states- Catholic militias charging tribute at
Rhine garrisons- extortion of commerce,
and the stately traffic in lands, blood, souls,
bound for Loki, the Prince of Despair
in the shadow of the cross.
The Center does not hold-
runs below our efforts, a subterranean
river of entropy.
The sublime stuff of dreams has not time
to find concretion as written stuff,
swept away in the tide of daily duties,
ever-pressed, necessitarian world-
excludes all others,
the moment stolen from one person-
or set of owings, but given to another,
always absent the time to be empty,
to reflect, to receive.
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Please remember that we are not universalists and do not believe that the principles contained herein would be of benefit to "all mankind."
We trust the ingenuity and resourcefulness of other peoples to come up with their own evolutionary strategies.
Ours assumes self-control, limiting one's consumption of natural resources and production of offspring, not overrunning and exhausting the earth, and other ethics of a distinctly North European flavor. This work should certainly be shared with other North Europeans.
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