This Elon Musk bloke is obsessed with big numbers—making lots of babies to save the world, sending millions to Mars, and chasing the first trillion dollars—because, like all Anglo-Saxons, he only understands things by counting them, not by understanding their true worth; he mistakes a nation, which is just a mob of people who feel the same way, for an Empire, which is a Sacred order run by wise men who are born to rule, not by counting heads.
Elon Musk and his obsession with Numbers: Procreation as a statistical duty to combat demographic collapse. Transporting a million people to Mars by 2050 and building a fleet of ships. Reduces human problems to equations. Exponential financial accumulation: His ultimate obsession is to achieve such vast revenue and market capitalization (the first trillion).
What this idiot doesn't understand is that Western Civilization is not about numbers, not about nationalism but about quality, about Empire.
His version is that of an Anglo-Saxon, falling back into his tribal ways. Which, in my view, has never been defeated.
The Empire as a “Form” versus The Nation as a “Force”.
Nation-state is based on ethnicity, language, or popular sentiment. That is sentimentalism.
A sacred, universal “Empire” is based on shared spiritual principles and hierarchy. The first appeals to the masses, the second to the aristocracy.
There is nothing transcendent, universal, or hierarchical about nationalism. It is the debased, mob-driven version of the aristocratic ideal. A nation is not an empire.
The nation-state is built on sentiment—a horizontal bond between people who feel they are the same. This is a deeply modern and “bourgeois” concept.
A true Empire is not merely a big nation that has conquered others. It is a political structure that is the temporal arm of a transcendent principle.
In such a structure, authority flows from above. The aristocracy is not just a class of wealthy landowners, but a spiritual elite—the “men who are different”. The various peoples within such an empire are united not because they share the same blood, but because they recognize and serve the same transcendent idea (for example, the universal claims of the Holy Roman Empire or the Roman Pax Deorum).
This structure is inherently hierarchical. Hierarchy, Not Equality. It doesn't matter if you are a Gaul, a Syrian, or a Roman in the Empire; your place is determined by your proximity to the spiritual center.
True aristocracy is an inner condition. It is comprised of the “men who are different”—individuals who, through spiritual realization and adherence to Tradition, have actualized a higher state of being. They are closer to the divine, to the principle of pure being.
They are the law, because they embody the transcendent principle.
A nation is not an empire. The nation as a horizontal, egalitarian bond of sentiment versus the Empire as a vertical, hierarchical structure rooted in a transcendent principle.
Matter versus Spirit. Nationalism's basis in the physical and psychological (blood, language, sentiment). Empire is based on the metaphysical and spiritual.
Quantity versus Quality: The nation as a mass phenomenon versus the Empire as the domain of the “men who follow in the steps of Ulysses.” Nationalism is a modern, sentimental, and materialistic counterfeit of the ancient, spiritual, and hierarchical reality of a true Empire.