Observations About the World, Part Fifty

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Saturday – October 31, 2026

Home Sweet Home, they say, but what do they mean by home, they being the moderns?

    First of all, I have written a post with a similar subject to this already called "My Views on 'Neighbors'", which I recommend that you read before reading this post, not because that post contains the entire meaning of this post, not at all, but because I seek to not repeat myself too much here and because I need to be able to refer to that old post, as it is my practise to refer to older posts in each new post, and I am doing so precisely because there should be nood need to repeat myself. Works that contain too much repetition become boring and even painful rather quickly, and I also seek to not spend too much time and too many characters on simple repetition.

    Now, when it comes to the modern conception of a home, read "Modern Civilization", we must consider again individualism and the tendency to compartmentalize each aspect of the world into their own limits, read also "The Problem of Borders", and this is certainly the case with a home. Now, for most of history the concept of a home did not merely extend to the absolute limit of a house, to the perimeter or some property or to the walls of an apartment, and apartment in particular are interesting to consider in this context because inside these apartments people, human beings, are meant to live completely individual and compartmentalized lives away from other people, really they are meant to live parallel lives to everyone around them, and of course the strange thing about apartment, and perhaps the uncomfortable thing about apartments, is that people will live almost completely separate because they need to and because people simply do not know each other, because there is no real community, no society, to speak of when it comes to cosmopolitan life, and so the home represents a kind of protection against the chaos of the outside, mind you the controlled and imposed chaos necessary for the materialist order to function and to thrive, and in the end something quite impossible at any rate. Of course, the traditional with a lowercase T conception of a home would extend far beyond the perimeter of some property and the entire concept of a property would also be far more communal if not sacred, and even if there was a more compartmentalized and individualistic notion of property a home would still extend beyond this limit, because people would belong to a proper place in the world, read "Hierarchy", and therefore someone's home would not be defined by narrow limits, by hard lines and by strict borders; someone's home would be defined by their place in the world and by their community, really by their village and by their sacred duty and by their honour. Perhaps a man living somewhere in the enchanted world of Medieval Europe would consider a distant village not to be his home, but this would still not be what he would define his home by, because negativism was not the common way to define aspects of the world and this this case aspects of someone's life in this time, and instead his home would be defined by what he could fit into his own conception, which is why a distant village likely would not be considered the home of this man, for he would simply struggle to conceive of this distant village in his memory, read "The Memory of Abraham". Really, even while strolling down the muddy road in the middle of nowhere, this man would still never quite leave his home, because one part of his home was his social standing and his higher knowledge, which is why he would never be quite completely away from home, and this is similar to the concept of a kind of divine law, read "The Problem of Secular Law", and this would apply to his faith as well. Tell me, would a man cease to be Christian because he left his homeland behind or his village behind or perhaps his immediate family behind, or what about his house behind? Of course not, and the same applies to the concept of a home, just because a man leaves his house behind, forever or for a given amount of time, this does not mean that his is now suddenly uprooted from his home, at least not in the traditional conception of a home, and some would argue that it would be quite impossible for a man to ever truly leave his home behind which would, in my mind, be a prerequisite for the concept and notion of an organic nation as opposed to the monstoricity that is a the modernism of nation-states, read "The Problem with Nationalism", and in this conception of a nation, though this conception is still quite flawed, we would be able to move closer to something like a true or Biblical, in the case of the Western world, conception of a "nation", and I must again clarify this by stating that I have no issues with the concept of a "nation"; my issue is rather with the modern concept and confusion of "nation-states", but more on this elsewhere and another time.

    A similar tendency or really similar tendencies can be noted just about everywhere here in the modern world, and I suppose that I should point out more examples, but at some point it does get tiring only pointing out counter examples. Instead let us conceive of a world without number as the main and defining feature: would this world be more enchanted and would this world be more forgiving and without all of the narrow mindedness? I think so, and yet these people have had the gall to accuse me of being narrow minded and parochial in my conception of home. No, modern man is so narrow in his conception of home that he has not even a conception of society and community, of the parish in this case. Constrictions everywhere, yet it is necessary to always extend the number line in order to account for all of these new modalities. So when we consider this modern notion, yes notion, of home, are we not asking modern man to almost move the limit of his conception to himself, to his own individual, and if this is the new home, should everything else just be a strange mess, something chaotic and out of place, read "The End of History"? This conception of home strikes me as rather similar to a prison, especially when we consider who is part of the prison population. Yes, do allow yourself to be defined by number and forget your true home, but do not complain when you find yourself lost. Also, do not let that notion of a "global citizen" to confuse you, for this concept is just as much alien and fraudulent as the concept of a modern home, and besides, if everything is your home, that word has no meaning, which practically removes any difference between the concept of a "global citizen" and a individual; yes, the concept of "individualism" is perfectly meaningless, at least under our present circumstances. A home must be defined by the course of nature and by proximity to principles, and not in any other way, and certainly not in a way foreign to nature, artificial and contrived out of political necessity.

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – October 31, 2026.