The personal life is, or rather should be, dead because the true purpose of our individual lives is to aid and advance our folk: to do our duty to our folk.

It is this duty which defines us, as human beings. When we ignore this duty, and just concern ourselves with our own problems, our own comfort, our own happiness, our own welfare, we are not being truely human. Instead, we are just behaving like immature children who have yet to grow up and think, act, and behave as adult human beings.

That is, our own personal concerns, happiness, comfort and even welfare should not be our priorities. Our priority in life should be to do our duty, as a thinking human being possessed of the will to change ourselves and contribute in a positive way to the evolution of Nature, to the evolution of all life.

We have been evolved, into human beings, by Nature in order to do this: in order to know our duty, and act upon it. For our folk, our culture, is a living being, created by Nature, just as we are living beings, created by, and dependent upon, Nature.

The terrible, damning truth about the societies of the West is that these societies encourage and indeed often demand that people do not grow up. These societies actively encourage us to be self-indulgent, to be concerned about ourselves and our comfort, as they actively discourage people from doing their noble duty to their folk. Indeed, these societies prevent us from learning the truth about ourselves and prevent us from learning about, from knowing, our own culture, our own folk heritage, traditions and ways of life.

The terrible, damning truth of our times is that most people are not grown up and never will grow up to be adult human beings. They will spend all their lives as immature children in grown-up bodies, never having been taught how to act with dignity; never having been taught about honour and how to control their tantrums, their personal desires, and never having developed a perspective beyond that of their own lives or that of their immediate family.

And all the societies of the West - with their capitalist-consumer ethos, their neglect of honour and their disrespect for living cultures - conspire to keep people as immature children.

Thus do we have nauseating Television programmes where people discuss their "personal problems" and where they moan and whine in an undignified way, and display little or no self-control and little or no honour and nobility. Thus do we have nauseating Films and Television and Radio dramas, and books and plays, about the personal lives of individuals and their self-indulgent, undignified, mostly immoral lives, with individuals betraying their spouses, each other, and using violence, intimidation, fear, and manipulation to achieve their lowly mostly sexual or material goals and desires.

Thus do we have people working, or committing crime, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, to provide more material comfort, more material goods, for themselves or at most their immediate family, with little or no thought given to their own culture, to the traditions and way of life of their ancestors, to the health of the homeland of their ancestors, to themselves as a living link between the past of their folk and its future.

The perspective of the majority of people of Western societies is that of their own lives, or at most that of their children, and if some of these people have concerns beyond this, these concerns are most certainly of an abstract, lifeless, political or social kind: concerned with abstract, lifeless, political and social ideas which are totally divorced from, and always detrimental to, a real, living culture and the homeland where that culture dwells or where it once lived and thrived.

For the reality is that our individual lives only have meaning in relation to our folk: in relation to our own culture and the traditions and way of life of our ancestors. Our very purpose, as individuals, is to ensure the health, the survival of the living being which is our folk, our culture, for we in truth are but a nexus, a living connection between the past of our folk and its future, and the health, the well-being, the very future of our folk depends on us: on what we do, or what we do not do for our folk.

To aid our folk - to fulfil our human Destiny, our purpose, to do our human duty - is to know our folk: to know where we belong; to have a real sense of identity and belonging; to have a real sense of purpose which far transcends our own lives. That it, it is to have the perspective of our folk: of we ourselves as a nexus, a living link, between the past and the future of Nature, of all life.

Our duty - our responsibility as human beings - is to know our folk through our culture, through our traditions and the way of life of our ancestors. Knowing our culture, and identifying with it, we can ensure its well-being, its very existence, as we can contribute to our culture, thus enabling it, and Nature, to evolve even further.

David Myatt
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