The Problem with Nationalism

Allegory of the Concordat of 1801
By Pierre Joseph Célestin François

The Problem with Nationalism |
Tuesday – July 7, 2026

Forces concerned with the preservation of tradition and its institutions, read marriage for instance, tend to rest their concerns on the nation and more particularly so on the nation-state: the concern being that if these traditional institutions should face disruption from the inside or from the outside, that the nation itself could very easily be thrown into disarray, grave danger, and even a possible dissolution; and while these concerns are valid, they are not placed within the right cause, as the central concern for all men who seek to uphold order—which is actually equivalent with tradition—must be to uphold justice: that is to say cosmological order and the sacred order of the world, read "Hierarchy". Nationalism, particularly in the form of nationhood, is something that is specifically designed to work against everything that pertains to cosmological justice, everything that pertains to the natural order of things; in fact, it would be quite right to point out that the nation is wholly contrived from the material point of view, by and for materialism alone, and as materialism goes, so shall the nation, read my "Future series". It would even be proper to refer to the nation (nationalism) as a metaphysical monstrosity, as has been done elsewhere, and as can be seen in particular with such things as the Concordat of 1801.

    If the concern is to preserve tradition, most men would have to admit to themselves that there is very little value in this endeavor in and of itself, be it functional or not, and that what they actually seek to preserve is something much greater, really something that can transcend time and space: namely civilization and the principles that civilization rests upon; principles which today have been confused with the nation and the nation-state, particularly among conservatives, but principles that no less matter if they actually could be understood and appreciated for what they are and put into proper practice by properly qualified persons, read "Qualification". The best example of this confusion can perhaps be seen in the somewhat sorrow example of Charles Maurras: Charles Maurras who kept emphasizing the nation, in his case France, above the authority of the Church, the Catholic Church and the Holy See, and a man who only wished to keep the Church around as a relic of days gone by and as something still relevant in the cause of unification yet redolent in the cause of upholding sacred order and the supreme sovereignty of God; of course, for a man like Charles Maurras the nation itself was thought to represent the highest principle of them all, which promoted him to superimpose the nation on man in the style of Napoleon Bonaparte instead of realizing the futility in this enterprise, something that is common among conservatives and something that keeps holding them back.

    The history of the formation of nation-states and of the nation is of course somewhat sorted, but I would be remiss if I again did not mention Napoleon Bonaparte, for he was the first ruler who managed, again for the first time, to successfully superimpose nationhood and the principles of nationalism on ordinary men; before the time of Napoleon, whatever pre-nationalism that did exist was really only present among certain groups in that society (France or what became France), the bourgeois or the almost equivalent of the Vaiśya (वैश्य); and really, beyond that, Napoleon Bonaparte was also the first ruler who successfully sidelined the Church completely and that succeeded to complete the covenant with Satan, that of establishing a temporal power above man and without any regard for the authority of the Church, and further still one can assert that Napoleon Bonaparte completed the deviation and that he represents the first truly secular ruler in what would become the course of the firestorm of "progressivism", or in other words: Napoleon Bonaparte set the final course in the destruction of European and Western Civilization, read "Modern Civilization". Of course, the history of what became nationalism began earlier yet, and could be traced all the way back to the destruction of the Order of the Knights Templar in 1312, again by a French ruler, that crude, mendacious, menacing, tyrant of Philip IV of France, or really of what would become France. I should also mention the peace of Westphalia of 1648, concluding the final chapter of spiritual authority over Europe; from that point and onward the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte became but an inevitability and the stage was set for conflict and warfare on a scale never seen before, read "Modern Warfare". If you are a nationalist, French or not, do you really believe that the superposition of nationhood on the people, that the progressive and enlightenment era ideals of nationalism and anarchy have served your civilization any good? Because the overriding question here is authority: that of the Church and of God Almighty over human power; or that of the nation, that of politics, of secular laws, of deceit and manipulation, and of institutions bound to the deception of humanism and the exaltation of man above God, read "Transhumanism". If you actually believe yourself when you claim that you seek to preserve sacred institutions, not that there are many left, by defending the nation without actually understanding the position of the nation in the order of nature, you are doing the work of the devil and you may as well be lost to history yourself, for what you are not doing is preserving sacred institutions. In the end, you must understand that your concerns cannot rest on the nation; your concerns must rest on true knowledge, for only sincere and true knowledge can actually bridge the gap between ignorance and true wisdom.

    Any man who wanders the Earth with wanton cruelty in his heart and with ignorance as his bliss, would never understand these principles, even if he managed to convince himself of the nationalist lie and of the humanist cause; if the serpent placed the first seeds of doubt, man has cultivated and perfected doubt, and today this doubt has grown into a monstrosity with its own life, its own appetite, and its own will and sense of self preservation. Is this really what you seek to preserve, is this the cause of nationalism? If you do not believe this, then reject this lie and seek real truth.

Reginald Drax (M. C. Dutt) – July 7, 2026.