National Socialism — The Struggle for a Higher Cause
Sebastian Elofsson explains how the National Socialist cause is a struggle for higher values.
by Sebastian Elofsson
DEEP INSIDE, every one of us knows that something is not right in society and that there is something missing. Some perceive it as a strange feeling of emptiness and coldness. This sensation gnaws inside us constantly, night and day, without end. It is a feeling we would like to remedy, but how would we do it? And why do we have this feeling inside us? Our inner voice says that everything should be different, that we should act differently.
We live in a world defined by a material way of thinking, a society marked by excessive consumerism born from materialism. A world and society where money, power and egoism rule. The hunt for money, sex (with no productive purpose) and entertainment has even gone so far that today it is all we care about. We consume more resources than we actually need because we let short-sighted greed dictate our actions.
The individual’s material needs are given centre stage while all else is considered insignificant. Hence it is “economic growth” that is strived for incessantly in modern society. A person’s joy and happiness are determined according to the extent of their usage of luxury goods, which in turn leads to relentless consumerism, an insatiable desire for “happiness”. But amidst this frenzy of consumerism, an important matter is forgotten: that such things are always temporary and can therefore never lead to permanent joy and happiness. It’s no wonder that so many more people become depressed now than in the past when we’re constantly searching for the everlasting in the transient. It is self-destructive behaviour that permeates all of society, an evil circle that must be broken.
Materialism leads to egoism and a hunger for power (the selfish kind, from an individualist viewpoint). We only care about ourselves. The absence of spirituality is total. Today’s society and the people who live in it are comparable to a grey, formless mass without meaning — quite simply like the living dead. The life force that once drove us to create fantastic and magnificent civilisations appears to have dissipated in the sands of time. Today it has been replaced by materialism’s greedy, lifeless hunger. The consequence is a great oasis of concrete, asphalt and department stores. Both our folk and we as individuals have been subjected to and tormented by a spiritual plague. Among this spiritual plague’s constituent parts we find materialism, a view of life as something meaningless. Man is a spiritual being, and when he lives in an unspiritual world he is miserable inside. He becomes like a painting without colour, an empty shell, worshiping the moment instead of eternity.
A clear example of materialism having taken a deathly grip upon our people is that the choice of career or fame now goes before starting a family. How can one voluntarily elect to be disinherited? To voluntarily sever a millennia-old evolutionary process just to be able to earn more money and buy things you don’t need. All the toil and hardships our ancestors went through for our sake… we, who are their legacy, and as thanks we choose to render their lives meaningless. Sacrificing oneself for his people is a completely different matter, as that is sometimes necessary when the people’s survival is at stake.
Whence have the values and strong ideals that once defined us disappeared? The firm and unyielding conviction of something that is far greater than the individual himself. The conviction that gives us the will to take on even the most difficult challenges. The will to live and make the most of a meaningful life. A life of importance. We were once proud, self-assured, strong and fearless. The man of today is superficial and lives completely isolated from nature. He no longer believes in anything and he is incapable of feeling; he has rejected life itself and adopts death. But above all he is rootless, he no longer protects his race, and he rejects his own culture, his own identity.
Meaningful ideals like honour, loyalty, self-sacrifice, responsibility, courage, fanaticism, discipline and wisdom used to be desirable virtues that men and women were expected to possess. Today these ideals have been cast aside and replaced with egoism and greed. All that is beautiful and healthy has been distorted into the ugly and noxious. Decadence in society knows no boundaries. To illustrate this spiritual decay, we can observe how the natural balance has been upset as regards the perception of the family, folk and life in general. Sexual perversions, consumerism, entertainment, drugs and an excessive consumption of alcohol — i.e., everything that characterises a modern, materialist society — drains the life force from our people. Money…
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