American Patrimony
Reclaim Our Beloved Country
About American Patrimony
American Patrimony is a educational organization dedicated to the service of God, family, and country. We are Christian men committed to the preservation of American Civilization. Our educational mission is to remember and transmit the best of what has been thought and said in the course of Western Civilization. It is our responsibility to ensure the wisdom of the West is preserved and sustained through the generations, just as it was entrusted to us. It is our fraternal obligation to strengthen and support one another in our common endeavor to reclaim our beloved nation. It is our Being Duty as free men, as free Americans. America is our patrimony and here is where we, the Men of the West, make our stand.
“Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.”
― David Hackett Fischer
Patrimony
“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.” Antoine de St. Exupry
We have been granted this land of sublime splendor and majesty. It is our Patrimony. This is our land, our continent, and we will continue to live here proudly and resolutely just as our ancestors did. Our Patrimony will not be compromised or diluted by propositional grifters; it is our birthright, transferred to us from the men and women who settled it, built it, and civilized it. For those of us who hold this inheritance in our hearts, it is of inestimable value. It is irreplaceable. America is not an economic zone or an empty litany of abstract values. America is a distinct people and a unique culture, with our own customs, laws, and traditions that date back centuries. We will not sell it, we will not barter for it, and we will not leave it. We are Albion’s seed and our roots are permanent.
Memory
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” Guy de Maupassant
American Patrimony is committed to memory against forgetting. We are intent on preserving our American past;. We dutifully recall its people, religion, customs, language, and history. We are American cultural historians. We consider ourselves the living continuation of our ancestral traditions and wisdom. We celebrate the achievements of our progenitors, and we preserve their memories and recollections as if they were our own–because they are. We honor their sacrifices and speak of their lives with decorum. We do not associate with men who denigrate our history or would remove the emblems and monuments to our ancestors.
Brotherhood
“When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.” Nicólas Gómez Dávila.
Our civilization is facing immanent collapse. Our culture is an unmitigated catastrophe. All of our institutions are filled with every form of rot, and the decay stretches back for centuries. There is almost nothing to regard with respect in our society, and every institution is corrupt to the studs. But we must persist. It is our highest obligation to strive together to reset and then rebuild Western Civilization on sound principles, and for that, we must unite together as brothers to achieve our great Aim. We will only achieve this great obligation together as unbroken individuals.
“When all institutions have become equivocal or even disreputable, and when open prayers are heard even in churches not for the persecuted but for the persecutors, at this point moral responsibility passes into the hands of individuals, or, more accurately, into the hands of any still unbroken individuals.” Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
I have created this fraternal organization, American Patrimony, because I am of the firm opinion that Western Civilization is collapsing, and I am equally certain that you have reached the same grim conclusion. You are not mistaken; the wheels are coming off before your eyes.
The consequences of this collapse will be long-lasting and perhaps permanent. Until recently, the descent has been both gradual and subtle, but now the decline has accelerated, and the deterioration is self-evident to anyone with a whit of intellectual conscience. What you observe is civilizational cancer, and it is metastasizing rapidly. Each day brings more calamity. The US debt is so vast it defies logic (but will soon answer to mathematics). Our productivity is fake and so is our vaunted currency. Our border does not exist, and by extension, neither does our nation state. Every alternate word our media tells us is a lie, and reasonable men have justifiably stopped listening entirely. However much you hate the media, it is not enough. Our culture is like a leaking nuclear reactor, producing nothing but radioactive sludge that export around the world. The corporations and our government are interchangeable fools, and there is risible incompetence in every sensitive sector of the economy. Our diplomacy has us lurching toward a global war on several fronts while being conducted by venal idiots and predatory psychopaths.
I suspect the rot is much worse than it appears to the eye. Every financial, cultural, and institutional observation reinforces my belief that a collapse is imminent—it’s only a question of how widespread and how deep the damage. My bet is global and catastrophic. What little cohesion remains among Americans will be swept away entirely in the coming deluge. Our traditional institutions will be helpless to do anything because our feckless elites are responsible for eviscerating them. As it is currently constructed, I do not see any hope to reform America’s sclerotic institutions; they will have to be rebuilt in parallel.
And that is exactly what I have set out to do: a quixotic effort to re-found our institutions from the ground up. I’m surveying the landscape, and I’m searching for fellow builders to help me, and help one another, reconstruct our little portion of Western Civilization for ourselves and our children. That is the high purpose of American Patrimony. That is what I am asking you to join: the active effort to construct Civilization before the deluge.
Mutual Aid
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Benjamin Franklin
Join or die. That is precisely where we find ourselves. That is the plain truth of our circumstance and any man who doesn’t know this by now is not going to make it. There is no more urgent time for us to work together. There has never been a more immediate necessity to work as a single force, as men of purpose. If we remain isolated, atomized, and insulated, Western Civilization is finished. The institutions will provide us nothing and political parties serve every interest–save ours. We must create our own momentum and with it our own institutions from whole cloth. We must become an economic, cultural, and political force in our local counties. The time is much later than you think, and every moment we sleep, evil gains ground. Join or die is exactly where we stand. This is not a metaphor, if you do not organize to counter the left, they will pursue their psychopathic inclinations to their well-documented and predictable conclusions.
Magnanimity
“Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.” Jacques Barzun
Technology has not made men wiser, it has made them small souled and arrogant. Men are not improved by claims of material progress, they are enervated by it. The modern man looks into the past, toward men possessing far greater Being than his own, and scoffs and mocks them from resentment and envy. This is not our way. We aspire to be men of intellectual conscience. We treat men past with gratitude and intimacy, and ask them to accompany us on our journey, as they are but a stones-skip ahead of us. We petition our forebears as humble interlocutors, to seek their blessing, not to hector and belittle their judgements. It must be our effort to understand them as they understood themselves, and to respectfully request their guidance as this age comes to a close.
Self-Reliance
“If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.” Russell Kirk
Self Reliance refers to the strenuous inner effort to discern one’s own Essence and take full accountability for one’s own life. Self-reliance means to take responsibility for your life, and accept the duty to become a self-evolving man, a man of self-mastery, a man who has ordered his three minds: reason, emotion, and instinct. Self-Reliance means to be attentive to the great forces within the universe that may come to your assistance, force that just might take an interest in you, and select you as an instrument for their great tasks.
“We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can’t be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.” Martin Heidegger
"We have the strange idea in the West that civilizations just happen: that they come into existence as a hit and miss affair and that we bumble along, creating and inventing and making it better. But this is not how things are done at all.
Civilizations never just happen. They are brought into existence quite consciously, with unbelievable compassion and determination, from another world. Then the job of people experienced in ecstasy is to prepare the soil for them; carefully sow and plant them; care for them; watch them grow.”
Peter Kingsley
Religion
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” G.K. Chesterton
American Patrimony proudly and unreservedly stands with the Christian religion of our forefathers. We make no apologies for this; American has been, and will remain, a Christian nation. God willing, New York City will once again light their skyscrapers with Christian crosses on Easter Sunday.
“But should the People of America, once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation while it is practicing iniquity and extravagance; and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candour, frankness, and sincerity while it is rioting in rapine and insolence: this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world. Because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
Providence
This is our land and our destiny is connected to it. We are bound to it and blessed by it and it is our obligation to preserve it. It is unnatural and unlawful to disconnect ourselves from this place and this soil. No better place for our people has been better prepared than America has been for us.
“Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters form a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind them together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation of their various ties. With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give us this one connected country to one united people -a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by they their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.” John Jay
Courage
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” Aristotle
Looking out across the breadth and depth of corruption that has hollowed out every institution that sustains our Civilization, from the churches to the universities to the corporations, the task at hand seems beyond hope. The scale of the decay is unfathomable. This effort of ours will take generations to tear out the dead things and build afresh. But we must begin, we must engage, and we must begin the fight in earnest before the hour slips away from us. It only grows worse while we remain passive, entranced by comfort and habit. Courage is the fire, the wish to change, and it animates the will.
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Perhaps the simplest way of describing the situation would be to say that, two and a half thousand years ago in the West, we were given a gift — and in our childishness we threw away the instructions for how to use it. We felt we knew what we were playing with. And, as a result, western civilization may soon be nothing but an experiment that failed.” Peter Kingsley
Enterprise
““The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” Tacitus
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” Leonardo DaVinci
Americans are natural-born entrepreneurs. We are risk-takers. We were sailing and surveying for opportunity from the moment we landed. We are a nation of explorers, inventors, merchants, and tradesmen. Enterprise is in our blood and we should not apologize for it. Enterprise is the engine that, rightly constrained, may contribute abundance, opportunity and health to the commonweal. We are not collectivists; we are not fit for peonage. We are free men with remarkable ideas who form natural partnerships with one another to achieve grand aims. Safety can never be our lode-star.
Family
“Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.” St Augustine
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.” Thomas Jefferson
Family is the backbone of our living society, it is the generative unit from which all civilization ensues. It is a microcosm of the Holy Trinity: Father, Mother, Child. Active, Passive, Reconciling. It is made of the same durable material of the cosmos; it is a lawful thing. From the tender bonds of family our nation draws its elemental strength. It will be the refuge in the coming whirlwind. It must be protected at any cost.
Family bonds must be nurtured, strengthened and cultivated. The franchise, rightfully understood, is the domain of the family, not the individual. The family elects, the family chooses, the family guides the course of the nation. Any man speaking against the formation of the Christian family is neither friend nor countryman and will be shunned.
Craftsmanship
“Every man-made thing, be it a chair, a text, or a school, is thought made substance. It is the expression of someone’s, or some groups, ideas and beliefs. The two-hundred year old double hung, six light sash window in the wall opposite my desk, out of which I am looking at this moment embodies ideas about houses and how we should live in them, tools, technologies, standards of craftsmanship, nature and much else. It is a material manifestation of the collective consciousness of its time and place channeled through the individuals who commissioned and made it.” Peter Korn
America has a long tradition of expert craftsmanship. It is still evident everywhere your look–provided you know where to look. We once erected houses and monuments and train stations and buildings with beauty and soul in every part of the nation, and we did this for centuries. We will do so once again. Build it beautiful, build it to last, build it for God.