Reculturization of the English
White supremacist claptrap masquerading as logical thought and the usual White conflation of ethnicity with nationality.
When the author says English, he clearly means Caucasian, but lacks the honesty to say so - as if Englishness (in the White imagination) is somehow completely disconnected from skin color and is, therefore, entirely political. If it were, White organizations like the BNP simply would not exist since their members use racist epithets based on skin pigmentation - and nothing else.
To claim Whites cannot express their own ethnicity, as others do, is palpable nonsense since Whites have rarely been oppressed by others and so such overt expression has rarely been necessary. Through the agency of racism, Empire & Atlantic Slavery, Whites have continually expressed their ethnicity in a way quite unlike any other ethnicity. To claim otherwise, is to tacitly admit guilt for a negative past and to claim that such a past has nothing to do with the present - despite the fact that the present is largely based on the past.
‘Essential Englishness’
is not defined - only Whites, apparently, cannot do this when other nationalities & ethnicties do not possess similar difficulties (eg, Irish, Scots & Welsh). The reason for this is because there is nothing about England that is distinctively English - other than the rapacious imperialism, social parasitism and genocidal tendencies of its past that are being denied as being important.
This pamphlet features the usual White envy of other cultures, not because Whites have lost something but because they never really possessed it. Alongside this invidiousness, lies an implicit shame about the systemic genocide, torture, rape, murder, enslavement and theft of land and resources that characterized White English culture for 500 years. To reject this past means to reject much of contemporary culture; leaving Whites with little more than the anachronistic ridiculousness of Morris Dancing as a cultural base. The lack of pride in the achievements of their culture are thus laid bare for all to see.
The attempt to appropriate other cultures is made obvious by such things as the author’s greater interest in studying Classical Greek and Ancient Egyptian, much moreso than Old English - despite the fact that all three are classical languages, equally worthy of study. Whites, themselves, consider their own culture not as interesting as others despite the present (& concurrent) claim to inherent cultural superiority. A society always defining itself in terms of what it is not, is going to have a hard time turning this on its head and defining itself in terms of what it is.
There is also no mention of fact that the English imported a Levantine religion that made a palimpsest of paganism - a graft that did not really take since the country is now essentially secular. Jesus Christ was not born in Basingstoke, after all, but in Bethlehem. It is entirely typical that a Christian should forget his own religion’s hand in the problems he claims exists, when Christians have been wont to destroy other cultures precisely because they have so little of their own and so fear successful competition.
The lack of a deep-seated English culture also relates to its lack of mythology; referring, instead, to adopt Greek Myth as basal, rather than the more local Norse. This explains why the English lie about their traditions and customs being anything more than recent habits masquerading as ancient traditions. And also why there is a lack of formal rites of passage for Anglo young that go beyond learning to drive, losing ones virginity and binge-drinking. Much, for example, of the cohesiveness of Jewish culture lies in formal ceremonies like the Bar Mitzvah.
The author concludes that rapid cultural change leads to the cultural discontinuity we see in the West. But the essential problem is the pride that no amount of cultural reconstruction can produce because Whites have little to be proud of - mostly because of the confusion here between Englishness (cultural) and ethnicity (genetic). Instead, we see a guilt-ridden running away from a particular culture, as well as an evasion of the concept and practice of culture itself; hence, for example, the Americanization of UK culture - a US culture that is just as materialistically-inclined.
If the inherent and endemic White supremacism bound up in the concept of Englishness could be eliminated, then this pamphlet could become a good starting point for Whites to discover themselves. Self-destructively, Whites have commonly been opposed to ethnic self-identity - even their own - because they wanted to claim to be above ethnicity (ie, non-ethnic) and, thus, superior. But now that they have failed to prove such superiority, by destroying others, they desperately seek to redress their own failings by claiming others must embrace their empty culture; while openly admitting here to not having much to embrace. They admit the latter in the claim for a need for a cultural reconstruction. This book is, thus, an implicit argument for the very ethnic segregation it pretends to abhor - but it is far too late for Whites to claim a separate ethnicity when they have spent so much time and effort claiming otherwise. It is like claiming to be British only to find that the Scots no longer buy-into the notion of Britishness and henceforth only want to be Scots - as they have always been. The feeble English response to this has been to stop pretending the United Kingdom exists and desperately attempt to reclaim Englishness without a clue about how to define such a term - a cluelessness revealed by the similar lack of a definition for the word Britishness.
Fortunately, this opuscule should not waste much of any rational readers’ time.
