Modern Nationalism is a Hollow Shell—Here’s Why

A Nationalist ghoul: “The term 'nation' is linked to the concept of birth. Perhaps if these individuals were born in that place and existed in substantial numbers, such a claim could be justified. However, if they were not born there, there would be no basis for calling it a nation. The Latin root of 'nation' is 'natus,' meaning birth.”

Me: The modern “nation” is but an empty shell, a lifeless form devoid of the transcendent principle that alone grants it meaning. Only the interior dimension holds significance—the race of the spirit, the eternal Tradition that stands beyond all temporal contingencies. Blood and soil possess no intrinsic value except through their connection to the supramundane. You, who remain bound by the residues of dualistic thought, fail to comprehend: the external is nothing but a reflection of the internal. All distinctions dissolve in the realization of the One—there is no paradox, for separation is illusion. Only the principle is real.

Julius Evola critiques modern nationalism as a degraded, materialistic phenomenon devoid of any transcendent or spiritual foundation. In his view, true nationalism must be rooted in a higher, aristocratic principle—an organic unity of people bound by tradition, hierarchy, and sacred authority, rather than mere secular or collectivist impulses.

Evola distinguishes between:
1. Traditional, Superior Nationalism – An expression of a people’s spiritual and imperial vocation, aligned with the sacred and hierarchical order (e.g., the Roman Imperium, medieval monarchies).
2. Modern, Degenerate Nationalism – A materialistic, mass-driven ideology based on race, economics, or democratic populism, lacking any higher principle.

What remains in nationalism “devoid of superior elements” is:
– Collectivism – The reduction of the nation to a mere aggregate of individuals without spiritual unity.
– Materialism – An emphasis on territorial, economic, or biological factors (e.g., racial nationalism without a sacred dimension).
– Demagoguery – The replacement of organic leadership with populist or totalitarian manipulation.

For Evola, such nationalism is a hollow shell, a symptom of decline in the Kali Yuga, where true sovereignty (symbolized by the Kshatriya or king-priest ideal) has been replaced by profane, horizontal solidarity.

Metaphysical part:

Title: The Supramundane Nation: Blood, Soil, and the Spiritual Hierarchy Tags: #Nationalism #FalseNationalism #TrueNationalism #PseudoNationalism #Tradition #SpiritualRace #GhibellineImperium #AntiModern

1. Historical Degeneration: The modern world reflects a collapse from higher castes (sacred kings, warriors) to lower castes (merchants, masses), marking a regression into collectivism and materialism.
   
2. False Nationalism: Degenerate nationalism reduces the nation to a collective idol, demanding subservience to ethnic or racial identity, suppressing superior individualism.
   3.Soviet & American Barbarism: Bolshevism revives primitive Slavic collectivism, while America embodies mechanized materialism—both converge in destroying spiritual hierarchy.
   
3. True Nationalism as Prelude: A restorative nationalism must reverse the fall, serving as a foundation for aristocratic rebirth, not an end in itself.
   
4. Hierarchy of Values: Superior culture demands the primacy of spiritual and warrior elites over economic and vital forces—rejecting pragmatism and utilitarianism.
   
5. Lagarde’s Principle: The “national” is a stepping stone—true value lies in the personal, the aristocratic individual who transcends blood-and-soil determinism.
   
6. Aristocratic Restoration: A warrior caste must emerge, embodying honor, loyalty, and leadership, to elevate the nation beyond democratic decay.
   
7. Beyond the Nation: The ultimate goal is a supranational spiritual unity (for example, Medieval Christendom, Roman Imperium), where elites transcend ethnic divisions.
   
8. Anti-Internationalism: Universalism must reject egalitarian humanitarianism, preserving ethnic distinctions while uniting through higher cultural principles.
   
9. The Choice: Nationalism is either a terminal phase of collectivist decay or the first step toward Traditional rebirth—depending on its direction.
   

Universality and Centralism

The Holy Roman Empire’s ideal reveals the decay of rulership (regere) when severed from its spiritual foundation. The Ghibelline conception upheld two principles: the regnum’s supernatural origin and metapolitical universality, and the emperor as lex animata in terris—a transcendent unity (aliquod unum quod non est pars) standing above the nations he governed. The Empire was not merely a material aggregation but a higher, spiritual order.

This universal function did not depend on brute force but on fides—a sacramental bond of loyalty that unified feudal communities without erasing their autonomy. True hierarchy permits both order and freedom, unlike modern centralizing states, which impose uniformity through coercion, reducing organic unity to mechanistic control.

Traditional civilizations—particularly Aryan societies—embodied pluralism within unity: families, clans, and gentes retained self-sufficiency in law, cult, and militia while adhering to a higher spiritual order. The Frankish model exemplified this, where nobility dispersed yet remained immaterially connected to the imperial center, like a nervous system within an organism. The Far Eastern tradition similarly emphasizes the ruler’s detachment—remaining at the spiritual hub while peripheral forces self-regulate, achieving order through invisible harmony.

Conversely, modern “empires” are mere bureaucratic or militaristic hypertrophies, devoid of transcendent authority. Authentic empire requires a race to overcome its naturalistic limitations, embodying a principle that unifies other peoples not by force but by elevating their latent potential. Without this spiritual foundation, imperialism degenerates into violent domination, a cancerous growth rather than an organic unity.

The secularization of rulership—divorced from sacred authority—leads to absolutism, which inevitably collapses into demagogic tyranny. This pattern repeats in history: Greek tyrannies supplanting aristocratic rule, Byzantine decadence, and modern totalitarianism. The Church, by denying the sacred nature of kingship (as in the Investiture Controversy), accelerated this decline, reducing the state to a temporal, popular construct. Thomism’s attempt to reconcile Church and state failed because Christianity’s lunar, passive spirituality cannot integrate the solar, virile principle of true imperium.

Frederick II was right: true freedom lies in obedience to a higher spiritual authority (the Empire), whereas submission to the Church—a foreign, sacerdotal power—is enslavement.

America is a Mall

“Don’t make me laugh. We’re not one people. That’s just a myth Thomas Jefferson came up with. Jefferson’s treated like some American saint because he wrote those words, “All men are created equal.” But let’s be real—he didn’t even believe that himself. How could he, when he enslaved his own children? He was just a wealthy wine snob who got tired of paying taxes to the British. So yeah, he wrote some pretty words, stirred up the masses, and sent them off to die for those ideals while he sat back, sipped his wine, and exploited his enslaved women.

And now this guy wants to tell me we’re living in some kind of community? Give me a break. I’m living in America, and in America, you’re on your own. This isn’t a country—it’s a business.”

Metaphysical part:

America is Not a nation.

America was never a true nation in the traditional, organic sense—it was born from the revolt of mercantile interests against a weakening European order. Jefferson’s “equality” is a liberal myth, a subversive fiction that masks the natural hierarchies of men. His hypocrisy only proves the degeneracy of Enlightenment ideals: a slave-owner preaching universalism while upholding his own privilege.

Modern America is the triumph of the mercantile spirit—a soulless, deracinated machine where all higher values are reduced to transactions. There is no Volk, no sacred order—only the tyranny of economics and the illusion of individualism. The masses are exploited not by kings or warriors, but by bankers and demagogues who manipulate them with hollow slogans.

This is not a civilization—it is a usurer’s paradise, a final stage of Kali Yuga where all that remains is the worship of gold.

Title: America: The Triumph of Mercantile Degeneracy
Tags: #Traditionalism #AntiLiberalism #KaliYuga #Hierarchy #AntiModern

1. Anti-Nation: America was never an organic nation—it was a revolt of mercantile interests against the European order, lacking true spiritual or racial unity.
   
2. Jefferson’s Lie: The myth of “equality” is a liberal deception, masking the natural hierarchies that Enlightenment hypocrisy could never erase.
   
3. Enlightenment Degeneracy: The ideals of 1776 were born from bourgeois resentment, not sacred order—replacing kings with bankers and demagogues.
   
4. Mercantile Tyranny: America is a business, not a civilization—its soul is commerce, its god is profit, and its people are deracinated consumers.
   
5. False Individualism: The illusion of “freedom” disguises servitude to economic forces, eroding all higher values and traditions.
   
6. No Volk, No Order: Without a rooted people or sacred hierarchy, America is a machine of exploitation, where the weak rule the strong through finance and propaganda.
   
7. Kali Yuga Manifest: The usurer’s paradise—gold as god, men as cattle, and the final descent into materialist decay.
   
8. Anti-Hierarchy: The liberal myth of equality inverts the natural order, elevating the inferior while crushing aristocratic and spiritual elites.
   
9. Masses as Tools: The “people” are a manipulated herd, mobilized by slogans to die for illusions while the real powers profit.
   
10. No Return: America’s fate is sealed—it is the terminal stage of modernity, a warning to those who betray Tradition.
    

Evola viewed Christianity as a degeneration of traditional Roman spirituality, seeing its adoption by the Roman Empire as a sign of decline. He criticized the “plebeian” and egalitarian aspects of Christianity, contrasting them with the aristocratic, heroic ethos of pre-Christian Rome. The 4th-century institutionalization marked, for Evola, the triumph of slave morality over the sacred imperial principle. True Roman religion, in the Evolian sense, was the solar, hierarchical cult of the Patricians, not the later exoteric forms. The authentic Roman spirit belonged to the world of Tradition, which Christianity betrayed.

“Remigration is the only ticket to make Europe European again!”

Me: “If 'remigration' is to restore Europe’s essence, then it must first purge the Semitic spiritual corruption perpetuated by Christianity—an alien creed that severed the West from its primordial roots. The bourgeois fixation on mere racial or material distinctions is a modern decadence, a distraction from the true crisis: the collapse of sacred hierarchy and duty. Rome cared not for the color of men, but for their fidelity to Order and Tradition. The modern West, adrift in nihilism, has forgotten this. Its salvation lies not in petty tribalism, but in the restoration of the Eternal against the profane.”

Title: The Eternal Against the Profane: Evola’s Indictment of Christian Decadence Tags: #Remigration #Traditionalism #Evola #SpiritualHierarchy #AntiModern #RomanTradition

1. Christianity as Degeneration – Evola saw Christianity as a plebeian revolt against the aristocratic, solar spirituality of pre-Christian Rome, a betrayal of the sacred imperial principle.
   
2. Slave Morality Triumphant – The 4th-century institutionalization of Christianity marked the victory of servile, egalitarian values over the heroic ethos of the Patrician caste.
   3.Rejection of Semitic Spirituality – The Judeo-Christian worldview severed Europe from its Indo-European roots, replacing hierarchy with exoteric moralism.
   
3. The False Focus on Race – Modern racialism is a bourgeois distraction; true restoration demands a return to spiritual caste, not mere biological distinctions.
   
4. Rome’s True Measure – Ancient Rome judged men by their alignment with Order and Tradition, not by blood or material status—a principle lost to modernity.
   
5. The Crisis of Nihilism – The West’s decay stems from the abandonment of sacred duty, not superficial demographic shifts.
   
6. Remigration as Spiritual Return – To “remigrate” is to reclaim Europe’s primordial essence, purging all egalitarian and humanitarian corruptions.
   
7. Against Bourgeois Modernity – The modern world’s fixation on equality and progress is antithetical to the eternal laws of Tradition.
   
8. The Solar Path – Restoration requires the reawakening of the warrior-ascetic ideal, the synthesis of action and transcendence.
   
9. The Imperative of Hierarchy – Salvation lies not in mass movements, but in the resurgence of the sacred elite—those who embody the vir of Tradition.
   

“The modern world is a corpse animated by democratic heresies. Only the sword of Tradition can sever its head.”

Title: Christianity: The Decadence of the West
Tags: #Traditionalism #SpiritualDecline #AryanCritique #AntiModern

Christians; the Western Jews.

1. Dionysian Decadence – Christianity is a degenerate form of Dionysianism, replacing heroic transcendence with irrational faith for the weak.
   
2. Faith Over Initiation – It substitutes true initiation with emotional fervor, appealing to chaotic souls rather than disciplined seekers.
   
3. Degraded Mysticism – Though retaining traces of mystery traditions (for example, Orphism), Christianity reduced them to sentimentalism and exoteric dogma.
   
4. Anti-Hierarchy – Its egalitarian morality (“love thy neighbor”) opposes the Aryan-Indo-European principle of sacred hierarchy.
   
5. Chthonic Regression – The cult of the “Mother of God” revives pre-Indo-European Great Mother worship, undermining Olympian masculinity.
   
6. Passive Redemption – Salvation through “grace” denies the heroic path of self-overcoming, promoting slave morality.
   
7. Dualism & Nature – Christianity severs man from cosmic order, demonizing nature and fostering life-denying asceticism.
   
8. Roman Subversion – It corroded the Roman ethos of discipline and nobility, replacing it with guilt and universalist pity.
   
9. Anti-Heroic – The doctrine of original sin negates the possibility of aristocratic spiritual ascent, enforcing spiritual mediocrity.
   
10. Western Judaization – By inheriting Jewish exclusivism (“I am the way”) while diluting its rigor, Christianity became a hybrid poison for the European soul.
    

From a doctrinal standpoint, Christianity represents a decadent form of Dionysianism. It caters to a weakened human type, emphasizing irrationality over heroic, sapiential, or initiatory spiritual development. Instead of traditional paths of transcendence, it substitutes faith—an emotional impulse of a troubled soul drawn chaotically to the supernatural. Primitive Christianity exacerbated this crisis by fixating on the imminent Kingdom of God and the stark alternatives of salvation or damnation, reinforcing faith as the primary means of liberation through the symbol of the crucified Christ.

Though Christ’s symbolism retains traces of mystery traditions (such as Orphism), Christianity ultimately degraded these into sentimentalism and confused mysticism, reducing the divine to the human. Unlike the strict legalism of traditional Judaism or true initiatory Mystery cults, Christianity became an intermediate, diluted form—a surrogate suited to a debased humanity seeking redemption through “grace” rather than self-overcoming.

This worldview was fundamentally alien to the Indo-European spirit, particularly the Roman ethos, which upheld nobility, discipline, and sacred hierarchy. The Christian God, defined by suffering and exclusivity (“I am the way, the truth, and the life”), inverted the Olympian ideal, reviving instead the Pelasgic-Dionysian motif of dying and resurrected gods under the shadow of the Great Mother. The cult of the “Mother of God” further reinforced this regression, echoing pre-Indo-European chthonic cults.

Christian morality, shaped by Southern and non-Aryan influences, promoted egalitarianism and love as supreme principles—antithetical to the Aryan heroic ideal of hierarchy and differentiation. The doctrine of original sin and the radical separation between Creator and creature deepened this dualism, framing spiritual attainment in passive terms like “grace” and “election,” while denigrating active, heroic striving.

Christianity’s supernaturalism also severed the sacred connection to nature, rejecting the symbolic and magical worldview of antiquity. Nature was demonized, paving the way for an asceticism hostile to life—a complete inversion of classical Roman and Indo-European values.

Thus, Christianity epitomizes spiritual decline, marking a shift from active transcendence to passive devotion, from sacred hierarchy to egalitarian dissolution, and from cosmic order to fractured dualism.