by David Myatt

Everywhere today, the noble warrior value of honour is under attack. Even in our once warrior society of Britain, honour is in retreat. The warrior ideals of truth, honesty and fair-play are being lost. Our societies are now full of bullies who do not play fair (as witness the bullying tactics employed by the modern Police) as our societies are full of people who put their own material comfort before the ideal of honesty. For instance, that scourge of once barbaric countries, corruption - which the British Empire once almost eradicated - has not only taken root in our own country, but is flourishing among our once warrior, and once honest, Institutions. Bribery and dishonesty have become a way of life for many people.

Police officers can be bribed to reveal confidential information, as some of them fabricate evidence, lie and even steal. Judges and Magistrates can be bribed with offers of promotion if they do what is expected of them, uphold the repressive status quo and turn a blind eye to real justice and to truth. Journalists can be relied upon to do whatever is dishonest and dishonourable in their quest for a 'story'. Teachers and academics can be relied upon to spread anti-cultural propaganda and lies and so brainwash the minds of children and young adults. And, of course, Politicians and senior Civil Servants can be so easily bribed and so totally relied upon to do whatever benefits them and their careers that they do not really merit any mention in a catalogue of dishonourable, un-warrior behaviour.

Things have now got so bad in this country that there is even talk of introducing Third-world type laws to "stamp out corruption in public life" - as if laws would make any real difference since so few people now understand what being honest is all about.

Everywhere, people now give in to temptation - putting their own material gain, or their own personal pleasure, before honesty and thus before personal honour. Of course, in this material, selfish society it is easy to give in to material temptation - and so steal something or lie about something. But these are dishonourable things to do simply because they show a lack of self-discipline and a lack of idealism. To give in to such temptation is to place yourself - your own needs and desires - before honour. To be a warrior is to be honourable - it is to have, or strive to develop, a strong personal character and the motivation which comes with upholding idealism.

A strong person - that is, someone with a strong character - is self-disciplined because they judge everything by the standard of honour and refuse to do what is dishonourable. A weak person - that is, someone with a weak character - lacks both self-discipline and the motivation to do only what is honourable. A strong person has the ability, the courage - the personal character - to use their own will to triumph over temptation and over adversity. A weak person simply gives in to temptation because they do not have, or do not strive to develop, the courage, the will to triumph over temptation and adversity.

It is up to us, as champions and defenders of our ancient warrior culture, to set an example.We must do this duty, however much we are misunderstood and defamed, because it is the honourable thing to do.
 
 

THE UNPOPULAR TRUTH ABOUT DRUGS

People should not take drugs for one simple reason - it is an act of barbarism: a self-indulgence, and thus a sign of a weak character: something which only uncvilized people do.

Anyone taking any drug - be the drug "ecstasy", marijuana, heroin, cocaine, or whatever - is behaving like a spoilt, self-indulgent, immature child. Such children do not possess the personal character, the will, the self-discipline to act in a mature way and face real life - they prefer to take drugs to escape from reality and provide themselves with a momentary and ultimately meaningless pleasure.

All the other reasons given by others for not taking such drugs are irrelevant. People need to know and understand that what matters about drug-taking is personal character. A drug-taker - like someone who abuses any substance for a momentary pleasure - is a weak person. A person either has - or strives to develop - a strong character, or they do not have a strong character. A person of strong character - a mature person - exercises self-control; they possess will. A weak person indulges themselves - they let such things as drugs, alcohol, money or "sex", rule over them and govern their lives.

A person who exercises self-control - who chooses not to indulge themselves, regardless of what their "friends" or others say or expect - is acting in a human and civilized way, and showing noble character.

Weak individuals live for the moment, just like animals. Such weak people, such uncvililzed barbarians, live to indulge themselves: they live to experience pleasure, to gain personal happiness, to have "sex", to have "a good time". In contrast, strong people - real civilized human beings - live to achieve something positive, something noble, and they use their will, they exercise self-control, in striving to achieve their supra-personal aim or goal.

Weak individuals do not understand or even know about such human and noble concepts as honour and duty. In contrast, a strong person understands about duty and honour and strives to live their life according to these human and civilized ideals.

Those who have created and who maintain our present society - our present materialistic System - want and need more and more of our people to be weak and self-indulgent. Self-indulgent, weak sub-humans are easy to control and direct - and a society full of people stupefied by drugs, and intent only on pleasure, is a society unlikely to revolt against its masters. Such a stupefied, pleasure-seeking, self-indulgent society is a society full of individuals whose main concern is where their next "fix", their next dose of pleasure, is coming from. To such individuals, noble ideals and real freedom mean little or nothing - for the only freedom such weak people crave is the freedom to indulge themselves and the freedom to obtain those things, like drugs, which give them pleasure.

Every individual has a choice - be weak, and self-indulgent, or be strong and idealistic. The truth about our lives is that there are only these two types of person: (1) the weak uncivilized person, addicted to pleasure and happiness and intent on "having a good time", and (2) the strong civilized person, self-disciplined and striving for an ideal. Weak individuals have no aim beyond themselves because they have no understanding or knowledge of the real purpose of their lives. So they live what is basically a barbaric and ignoble existence.

What, then, is the purpose of our lives as individuals? What is it that makes us human, and different from other animals? According to our ancient warrior culture, what makes us different is that we possess will - we can consciously choose to do certain things, and choose not to do other things. That is, we have the ability to strive and create: we can use our will to consciously evolve - to make ourselves, and our world, better. And we do this, we live like humans, when we idealistically strive for noble ideals. Anything less is really a complete waste of our lives.
 
 

"There exists much that is god-like, yet nothing
Is more like the gods than a human:
For this being crosses the gray sea of Winter
Against the wind, through the howling sea-swell,
And the oldest of gods, ageless Earth - She, the inexhaustible -
He wearies, turning the soil year after year
By the plough using the offspring of horses.
He snares and captures the careless race of birds,
The tribes of wild beasts, the natives of the sea,
In the woven coils of his nets -
This thinking warrior, he who by his skill rules over
The wild beasts of the open land and of the hills,
And who places a yoke around the hairy neck
Of the horse, taming it - as he does the vigorous mountain bull.
How to speak, how to think swiftly,
How to raise and order towns:
How to build against the ill-winds of the open air
And escape the arrows of storm-rain -
All these things he taught himself,
He the all-resourceful ....."

Sophocles: Choral Ode from Antigone