I'm so excited about this project. I'm starting to read the essays from the beginning. I'm a Mexican born in Chihuahua with family in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and California. I currently live in Mexico City. Last year, I began working on my family tree and discovered that I have several ancestors that played their role in the early Spanish colonization of New Mexico. Some of them died or fled to Chihuahua during the Pueblo Revolt. I truly believe there is something special going on in the region, and I'm looking forward to reading your explorations on this topic. Best.
I’m from the SF Bay Area originally. I worked in Texas for 1 month and the heat of Phoenix for 4. I definitely see what you’re saying. I’m excited to read more!
I think I've said before in the comments here that I was born in AridoAmerica and I'm excited about this project of yours, since I already accept Spengler and Toynbee's ideas about cyclical history, and I look forward to seeing my homeland begin to give rise to a High Culture of its own.
That said, I have somewhat more to disagree with you about in this post than in most of your others. First off, it's true that Europe has (since 1945 and especially since 1989) accepted a subordinate role for itself vis-a-vis the United States, with a lot of similarities to Latin America's role. (And also I agree that projects like the EU don't make sense without heavy American cultural dominance.) But there's also a big problem - the realities of geopolitics being what they are, America won't get to have Europe as its own private playground - there is another Great Power that wants to compete for dominance there, as we've seen during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I wrote an article on this theme on my own Substack a few months ago called "The Poland Paradox: How Faraway Allies Make Small Countries Less Safe."
The gist of it is that both Eastern Europe and the maritime Asian countries (i.e. Japan, Taiwan, Korea) have acted rashly by neglecting their own militaries and depending so much on protection from the United States, even though the United States is a long ways away and only has a marginal interest in taking their side if actual fighting breaks out. They are likely to discover (as Ukraine is discovering now and Poland discovered in 1939-45) that distant allies, however strong they may be in theory, are no substitute for nearby allies when someone decides to incorporate you into their empire.
So I just don't foresee Europe having the sort of long-lasting informal dependency on the US that Latin America has had since 1898. America's military power is weakening and there are too many other players (Russia now, but also invasions from the Middle East and the Maghreb are likely in the future) that want to dominate Europe. I personally do not think that my country is up for the sort of military commitment that dominating/protecting Europe for the next half century would take, even if we sometimes delude ourselves (and the Europeans) into thinking otherwise.
This is warmed over Yockeyism transplanted to the Americas, and Yockey himself was warmed over Strasserism. This guy recapitulates Blut und Boden with neither Blut nor Boden, but still somehow comes out fascist. That’s superior intelligence for you.
As I've read through the articles, there's a lot here that I agree with. Most of the disagreement are small things or those that I'm unsure of due to your not explaining them yet.
I know that, I myself, think that as the Empire breaks down people will be building their own new Polities. My own writing is encouraging them to do so now, focusing around doing it based upon their religious center of worship, and use it as a foundation. I've written how this will, in much of the US and certainly in the area you're writing about, mean that there are new localized races made in the old world use of the word - where race is not a color, but tied to a geographic location.
Anyways, this would, in those areas you mention, come up with a tethering of a very new, real tie in of the past's beautiful history of the area, the real need for each other, and a blend of the races involved as they act like humans have always acted - marrying each other, incorporating values, and creating a common good together.
I'm so excited about this project. I'm starting to read the essays from the beginning. I'm a Mexican born in Chihuahua with family in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and California. I currently live in Mexico City. Last year, I began working on my family tree and discovered that I have several ancestors that played their role in the early Spanish colonization of New Mexico. Some of them died or fled to Chihuahua during the Pueblo Revolt. I truly believe there is something special going on in the region, and I'm looking forward to reading your explorations on this topic. Best.
Thanks. Born in Montana, native ancestors, live in Maryland, traveled the US Southwest, family in Texas and Oklahoma, eager to read more.
I’m from the SF Bay Area originally. I worked in Texas for 1 month and the heat of Phoenix for 4. I definitely see what you’re saying. I’m excited to read more!
I think I've said before in the comments here that I was born in AridoAmerica and I'm excited about this project of yours, since I already accept Spengler and Toynbee's ideas about cyclical history, and I look forward to seeing my homeland begin to give rise to a High Culture of its own.
That said, I have somewhat more to disagree with you about in this post than in most of your others. First off, it's true that Europe has (since 1945 and especially since 1989) accepted a subordinate role for itself vis-a-vis the United States, with a lot of similarities to Latin America's role. (And also I agree that projects like the EU don't make sense without heavy American cultural dominance.) But there's also a big problem - the realities of geopolitics being what they are, America won't get to have Europe as its own private playground - there is another Great Power that wants to compete for dominance there, as we've seen during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I wrote an article on this theme on my own Substack a few months ago called "The Poland Paradox: How Faraway Allies Make Small Countries Less Safe."
https://twilightpatriot.substack.com/p/the-poland-paradox
The gist of it is that both Eastern Europe and the maritime Asian countries (i.e. Japan, Taiwan, Korea) have acted rashly by neglecting their own militaries and depending so much on protection from the United States, even though the United States is a long ways away and only has a marginal interest in taking their side if actual fighting breaks out. They are likely to discover (as Ukraine is discovering now and Poland discovered in 1939-45) that distant allies, however strong they may be in theory, are no substitute for nearby allies when someone decides to incorporate you into their empire.
So I just don't foresee Europe having the sort of long-lasting informal dependency on the US that Latin America has had since 1898. America's military power is weakening and there are too many other players (Russia now, but also invasions from the Middle East and the Maghreb are likely in the future) that want to dominate Europe. I personally do not think that my country is up for the sort of military commitment that dominating/protecting Europe for the next half century would take, even if we sometimes delude ourselves (and the Europeans) into thinking otherwise.
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This is warmed over Yockeyism transplanted to the Americas, and Yockey himself was warmed over Strasserism. This guy recapitulates Blut und Boden with neither Blut nor Boden, but still somehow comes out fascist. That’s superior intelligence for you.
As I've read through the articles, there's a lot here that I agree with. Most of the disagreement are small things or those that I'm unsure of due to your not explaining them yet.
I know that, I myself, think that as the Empire breaks down people will be building their own new Polities. My own writing is encouraging them to do so now, focusing around doing it based upon their religious center of worship, and use it as a foundation. I've written how this will, in much of the US and certainly in the area you're writing about, mean that there are new localized races made in the old world use of the word - where race is not a color, but tied to a geographic location.
Anyways, this would, in those areas you mention, come up with a tethering of a very new, real tie in of the past's beautiful history of the area, the real need for each other, and a blend of the races involved as they act like humans have always acted - marrying each other, incorporating values, and creating a common good together.
I look forward to your podcast with Ahnaf!