Tradition
The existential centrality of tradition is especially evident in the fact that many, especially the most important, European traditions share a common origin, reaching back to the crucible of Indo-European civilization (subject of the next chapter). While varying in detail among the different European families, many of these traditions express a common relationship to the larger world, linking the continent’s different national families through rituals, customs, and norms which speak to kindred sensibilities and common origins. As the greatest of its identitarian historians, Dominique Venner, writes: “To live according to tradition is to conform to the ideal it incarnates, to cultivate excellence according to its standard, to rediscover its roots, to transmit its heritage, to be in solidarity with the people who uphold it.” Without tradition’s persistence, there would, in truth, be no Europe, for the historical, cultural, and genetic bonds Europeans share with their ancestors would otherwise be impossible to sustain. – Michael O’Meara
Taken From: New Culture, New Right