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Dynasophy

by Wayne Macleod

127 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-1493; ISBN 1-4120-3665-8; US$15.50, C$17.70, EUR13.00, £9.00

Concerned about the future? You should be, if not for yourself then for your children and grandchildren. Dynasophy confronts the controversial issues of our day crucial to Western civilization.

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About the Book

Dynasophy is composed from five essays, three commentaries and one prospectus that together describe an ideology for the future and how that future could materialize. Western Civilization is doomed just as surely as was Rome. A new civilization must emerge that will be as different from the West as the West has been from the Classical. That is its message. Evolution proceeds by small groups splitting off from large populations and going their own way. Humanity's future will evolve by small nations doing the same.

How could that occur? - By religion. A phenomenal fact is that all civilizations began in intensely religious periods and ended in irreligious ones. The same is true of the West, which at one time was intensely Christian, but Christianity has failed just as pagan religions failed civilization in the past. The answer for a continuing society is a religious ideology based on rational, provable and observable laws of nature rather than mythology and mysticism. The latter in an enlightened age inevitably die, throwing the individual on self interest for motivation in life, leading to hedonism and all the manifestations of social decline. That is the stage Western Civilization is in today. The essay, Rational Ethics, gives an ideology from nature.

The major finding of Chaos Theory is that creation in nature results from the interplay of chaos and order. The same must be true of civilization. If ideology can be identified as the source of order in society, the source of chaos comes from the individual. Invention, new ideas and theories are disruptive of society, and they come from individuals. The two forces of progress are therefore identified, and a race that is more individualistic can be expected to progress further than any other. Looking at history, not only the Western but also the Classical, Persian and Sanskrit East Indian, we find that people speaking Indo-European languages have given most human progress.

Irrespective of the contributions made by nonIndo-European talent, white nations have given the major impetus to progress over the centuries, and their societies declined after racial homogenization with other peoples. When social ideology, the source of order, collapses due to irrationality, the individualism that was the source of innovation then becomes a curse and turns destructive. One result is liberalism, that ethos of individualism.

To prevent social collapse, the ideology taught cannot be democratically derived, since that would subject the ideology to the same forces of decay as operative on the society, and consequently its institution likewise cannot be democratic. Two types of law should be identified: imperative and regulative.

Separation of Church and State is a mistake. Although Imperative law has an important role in government, that role must be purely persuasive, like that of modern universities, leaving actual political power to the democratic assemblies of free people. The government of a lasting society will therefore be an expression of the order/chaos principle of creation in nature.

About the Author
Wayne Macleod was born into a religious Christian family, but driven by an interest in science at an early age began to question the teachings he was brought up to hold. Also being interested in history he was fascinated by the question of civilization decline, and with a little research realized that it is related to the same religious irreverence he had come to embrace. After delving into Spengler's "The Decline of the West" and living nearly four years in the third world, the ideas of the present book came together. Dynasophy was composed from self-education on the topics discussed and from a unique observational ability he claims derives from artistic training. "I think with my eyes," he says figuratively, meaning that he has shrugged off all ideological and educational preconceptions, allowing a new look at the world. Mr. Macleod has been employed as an industrial draftsman. He is now retired and lives in Western Canada.

Excerpt

Civilizations rise and fall. From a period of barbarism great societies entered periods of expansion in geographical area, population, production and knowledge. Then, in all, after an era of peace their vigor and morale weakened and they declined physically until destroyed by external enemies. This pattern has been followed, all or in part, by all the world's civilizations, including: Sumerian, Egyptian, Mycenaean, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Andean, Classical and Near Eastern. The question now arises whether Western Civilization is following the same pattern. It is.

The economic symptoms manifested by a society in decline are: concentration of wealth, decreasing middle class, increase in debt, high taxes, decrease in manufacturing, increase in financial speculation and externalization of elites (globalization). Do any of these sound familiar? Social symptoms include giant cities that drain the countryside of people and wealth, militarization, decline of traditional religion, decrease in population, multi-racialism and even replacement of the old blood that begat the civilization. The future of the Western world is a future of massive cities, cosmopolitanism, concentrated political power, diminished freedom, giant monopolies and crass art. The one bright spot, technological innovation, can be expected to wane as the population caliber of Western nations diminishes along with any sense of nationhood. An incipient sign of decline is loss of faith in the old religion, and present Western society is beset by moral problems that cause division and dissention, even violence, for which established moral authority has no sensible response. Abortion, gay pride exhibitions, permissiveness and the liberal "isms," including liberalism itself, are issues that have caused concern to the man and woman holding traditional Western values.

Dynasophy (pronounced with emphasis on the 'a') offers an answer to Western decay. The name literally means "power wisdom," derived from the ancient Greek dynamikos, the root of words like "dynamite," and sophos, meaning wise. Dynasophy means awareness of force always required to overcome evil, and that we must inevitably expend energy if we are to live as righteous human beings. This dynamic has gone out of the Western world, so that right and wrong have become relative, and correct behavior is determined by what best suits the individual. The result is a society governed by the moral dictates of what is easiest.

The following is a collection of essays motivated by the issue of civilization decline and what we can or cannot do about it. Although complete within the subjects they treat, the essays all relate to that overall topic. Civilization decline results when the inhabitants of a high culture no longer possess the vigor and morale of previous generations. Regardless of the abilities people possess, if they are obsessed by their individualized lives they see their universe as any animal must see its universe. If there is no collective consciousness there can be no collective, no matter its benefit. That is how people of the modern West see themselves, as atomized individuals, interested in what they can derive from life on a purely personal level. The result is a society obsessed with money. It is a society riddled with crime that extends to the highest CEOs. It is also a humanitarian society, for we all want to be treated fairly as individuals, a desire not difficult to extend to others. Even children, when chastising someone for harm done to another, often implore: "How would you like it?" Thus, a society of individuals sees no ethical distinction between people regardless of race or creed. It is a liberal society.

To see the universe from a purely personal perspective is most natural, so we must wonder about the origin of a collective perspective, and if a purely individualized view is conducive to decay perhaps a collective vision is contrary to it. By common observation we know that one unifying factor among human beings is ideology, usually in the form of religion. People of different race and economic status are nonetheless united by common belief, whereas people of the same nation can be intensely divided by differing belief, as we see in Ireland. Ideology can also motivate, as it did great works of art during the Renaissance and earlier during the Middle Ages. When we look at the role of ideology throughout the centuries, an amazing fact appears: all civilizations began in intensely religious periods and ended in irreligious ones. This should not be a great revelation when we realize that ideologies such as the Communist in Russia and China, the Nazi in Germany, remodeled entire societies. In these, too, individualized life was subordinated to a collective outlook. Of course, the effect of any particular ideology will depend on its beliefs; not all will be benign and some will teach decadence. The point is that given belief people will organize their lives around that belief, thus producing something more than an atomized society motivated solely by personal want. The Essence and Decadence of Civilization shows the parallels between civilizations of the past and our own, and where the present West is on the civilization cycle. The essay then discusses how civilizations are born, and why they die, revealing the close relationship that all high cultures have with their founding religions.

For a thousand years Christianity has been the social ideology of the West, to the extent that our civilization was once called not Western but Christian Civilization. Great cathedrals rose in its service, cities were named after saints and nothing was accomplished without Divine Will. Now few Westerners seriously believe, if pressed for an answer, in an Immaculate Conception. In addition, Christianity was an imported religion with teachings fundamentally alien to human nature, such as its doctrines of passivity and renunciation of the world. Now affluent and educated, the West has largely discarded its ideology and people are left to their own beliefs, which inevitably become based on their personal wants and on a purely people-centered outlook. In Christianity Examined is revealed the pagan origins of this religion of the West, implying why the West has followed the same path toward decline as have all the pagan civilizations of the past. Condemnation of Christianity, however, is not due to it being believed, on the contrary, it is due to traditional Christianity not being believed. Christianity has failed Western Civilization, just as all myth religions have failed civilization in the past. Devout Christians who continue reading this book are advised that their religious beliefs are about to be challenged.

The religions of mankind that have so-far motivated great societies have all been based on mythology, so that all contained the seeds of their own destruction as their inhabitants became more enlightened and prosperous. The obvious need, therefore, is for an ideology without the flaw of mystical, mythological belief, but instead derived from the plain and simple, observable laws of nature. Rational Ethics answers such fundamental questions as why it is easier to be bad than good. When we attempt to answer such questions we are led to an understanding of nature itself and humanity's place in it. Here is explained the Dynasophy philosophy, one based on the natural, not the supernatural, using simple analogy and deduction. It makes the connection between our material world and human nature. Normally we do not think there is any connection whatever, but there is no reason for there not to be. All nature is governed by the same laws. We are all aware that in time decay is inevitable unless we exert energy to prevent it. We do not normally think of a hot object cooling or the diffusion of scent as a matter of decay, but the process is the same as changing from a higher ordered state to a lesser ordered one, inevitable in time. This is the Law of Regression. It is easier to be bad than good for the same reason it is easier to destroy than to create. Just as effort and struggle are required for creation, so are they required to do good. There is no need for a spirit world in this understanding. Thus, Dynasophy provides a new base for moral philosophy other than the mystical doctrines of established religions. It does not teach a new morality. On the contrary, Dynasophy upholds conservative values, even strengthens them, but establishes them on more solid grounds than the mythologies of traditional belief.

If the destruction of human progress is evil, surely the destruction of the people who produce human progress is evermore so. People who give us progress are a special combination of intellect and temperament, combinations that appear in populations depending on the incidence of those qualities. Obviously, populations with those qualities in higher proportion will give birth to genius in higher number, so to mix such a population with another will most probably diminish its incidence of genius. It would be an example of the Law of Regression. It would be evil.

Do such high potential populations exist? How can we tell? Surely one method of telling is by looking at history. When we do, one truth becomes evident: the major progress of humanity, from the days of Greece and Aryan India and Persia, even earlier, extending to the Tokari of Western Asia up through the ages in various lands and climates to our day, from the use of concrete to tensor Calculus, from the study of logic to the rule of law governing nations, has been by the white race. This observation is not meant to diminish contributions made by non-white individuals; it is simply a statement in acknowledgement that white nations have been the major seedbed of human progress over the centuries, and there is no reason to suppose they would not continue to be in the future, unless lost. The essay, The Mistake of Universalism, argues that just as Europe grew from the decay of the Roman Empire so must a new society grow from the decay of the West, only a new nation need not repeat the mistakes of history. This essay argues for white nationalism, which should not be understood as an argument against other races. As usually happens, favor of a particular race is interpreted as opposition to others, an illogical deduction but one commonly made.

Thus there are two aspects of human progress, one: the ideological that motivates people toward social order, preventing an atomized society where they live purely self-centered lives, and two: ability that the race manifests from the combination of qualities it carries. Any creation in nature comes from the interplay of order and chaos. Individual genius, with its discovery and invention, is an originator of chaos in society, whereas ideological institutions give social stability. Progress depends on balance between the two. When society becomes unbalanced by the loss of social ideology, the individualism that formerly gave progress then becomes destructive, and the more creative the race the more self-destructive it can be.

To achieve that balance, not only must the ideology be believable in an age of learning and affluence, it must have an institution to deliver it. That institution cannot be democratic, for if it were its teachings would be subject to the same Law of Regression operative on society. Any civilization that does not recognize the need for imperative authority is destined to become trash, so that an enduring society must have a government that is more than a democratic dispenser of public will. Therefore, care must be taken to delineate powers and ensure a balance between personal freedoms and the requirements of a lasting nation, described in Purpose.

All of the above subjects are covered in much finer detail in five of the following essays. On completing their reading, if the reader is interested in further pursuing Dynasophy an invitation is offered in Prospectus.

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