The old German writer, philosopher, and World War I veteran Ernst Jünger has become a household name among the online right, especially in Germany itself.
Jünger is read by young people who reject modernity, especially because of his earlier writings on aristocratic masculinity, as in his book In Stahlgewittern (Storm of Steel), and because of his call to a guerrilla-style rebellion against democratic society such as in Der Waldgang (The Forest Passage).
But though Jünger’s call for a new aristocracy might sound archaic and romantic, his idea was actually ahead of his time, for he didn’t believe in a fixed hereditary aristocracy of long lineages of firstborn sons, but rather of an aristocracy in principle open to all and based only on one’s willingness and ability to offer protection to one’s people.
Today, indeed, such an elite willing and able to protect one’s own people is effectively non-existent. European nobility has traded away its duties for the spoils of globalist exploitation. The American corporate rich never had a reason to protect anything.
Whatever the present globalist elite thinks they are doing, they are effectively genociding native Europeans for the fictional belief in some kind of worldwide integration of all races and religions into one giant bureaucracy.
Now, I don’t know if we should call upon the living descendants of the German Emperor such as Paul Herzog von Oldenburg or the House of Hohenzollern. What matters at this point is that our peoples are in need of protection, so that we may together resist the excesses of globalism.
In my view, the Germanic world of Europe should find a way to break free entirely from globalism and become global integrations’ antipode. We should become a race of rural resisters, if you will, a people who start shunning big city life in favor of life in small towns.
A return to tradition, indeed, but under the leadership of an elite who remember the words noblesse oblige, and who are motivated by winning victories greater than any bank account can contain, namely to rekindle our people’s innate vigor and to redraw the map of the world to our benefit.