“There was a growing independence in our family as we grew older. With the years we became more individual, often holding firm and differing opinions, approaching life from diverse directions. But let joy or sorrow come to one, it always came to us all, to be faced, to be shared, to be experienced together. When the Waltons needed to be a family we came together as one.” - ‘John Boy’ Walton Jr.

“ARCHEOFUTURISM: The attitude that approaches the future in terms of ancestral values, believing that notions of modernism and traditionalism need to be dialectically transcended. - Guillaume Faye.

“The sea ended right before his eyes. As he watched the final surge of each wave as it drained into the sand, the final thrust of mighty power that had come down through countless centuries, he was struck by the pathos of it all. At that very point, a grand pan-oceanic enterprise that spanned the world went awry and ended in annihilation.” - Yukio Mishima (Spring Snow.)

To say that we live in chaotic times seems to me somewhat of an anachronism, perhaps something I might have believed in some recently obscured timeline, perhaps as the consequence of the speed at which culture now devours itself. There exists a point of realization where chaos no longer adequately describes the overall impression given when staring into the depths beyond the crippled facade of a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse. I suspect the reality of it is closer to the possibility that we are facing an apocalypse or revealing of the true nature of that which gave birth to our cosmos. High weirdness on every level is becoming more and more a fact of life for many people who peer beyond the flattering spectacle on the screen. The surface is beguiling in its hypnotic movements of swirling micro-systems, like a map of some global weather system, we are transfixed by the suspicion of the existence of an intelligence we can barely conceptualize. This, of course, is the trap we are always on the lookout for if we wish to stay on course in our journey across the oceans of pandaemonium. It is the masque of the true face of Chaos as it was understood in ancient times, it is a riddle written in blood and woven into the fabric of life. It presents us with the challenge to go beyond that which is merely “known”. As much as humans have struggled with Nature from the beginning they have struggled with Chaos… so in order to advance as a species without struggling “against” Nature we must re-frame our idea of our travails on this planet. Yes, we do at times struggle, but are we struggling with, or against? It may turn out to be a subtle distinction, but a highly important one, nonetheless. The same will be true for Chaos.

For some of us who stare into the chasm beyond this wreck of a post-society of the spectacle, Traditionalism, with its emphasis on a higher truth than the scientific materialism of our current, disintegrating paradigm, and dealing with certain realities that are inherent in Nature, can present us with much food for thought and inspiration. But it can also just as easily serve as a distraction from the very reality that most of us live and work with, a reality saturated by materialism and all its petty abstractions. In this arena we need strategies that are intelligent, able to learn and adapt without betraying or diluting the core values we find of interest in Tradition. In order to do this realistically we must not lose sight of Tradition, but at the same time we must be oriented in the correct direction with regard to it. To be tied to a fundamentalist traditionalism is a fate worse than death for us, for it is no better than the materialistic individualism that it purports to oppose. A false dialectic, a distraction, a smokescreen for the agents of the status quo, a straight-jacket for the mind (even Evola points this out in his “Ride the Tiger”.) We adopt here the term and general concept of Archeofuturism to denote our Will to live closer to the ideals of our ancestors while maintaining a fixed gaze upon the future and the realities of the present that now face us looking into that future. We are not saying here that one should not be a confirmed Traditionalist, or that strictly kept traditions of all kinds aren’t incredibly valuable, in fact, quite the opposite. If that is ones calling and it comes from an authentic connection to ones place in Nature then it is heartily recommended, not only as a healthy evolutionary strategy (given the right conditions), but also as a good way of living that promotes the natural order and respects the environment. However, many of us were not raised on Walton’s Mountain, although we may be spiritual cousins, we have been nurtured in the belly of the beast some of us, fumbling our way in the semi darkness of an education and culture poisoned by its own ideals towards the distant light of a brighter future, partially obscured by the phantasms of apathy and inattention. If we have pushed through the conditioning dished out liberally by the cultured Marxists in their march through our institutions, then we have successfully freed ourselves to deal with Chaos, but not chaos with a small “c”. We become cyber-shamans of techno-futurism, struggling with Chaos and Nature, not against them. The struggle becomes a striving, and the striving becomes a cause… and a cause begins to take effect.

For us an alliance with the forces of Chaos and Nature has been forged, an alliance that penetrates the soul, intersecting at the nexus of past and future in the very now of our being. We have drunk deeply from the cup of indulgence, sowed our seeds in many a fallow field and placed self before all gods, but we have been redeemed, not by grace or by knowledge or wisdom, but by action guided by all three. The great civilizations of the past that we look to for inspiration were all doomed to crumble from the start as is the current project, but it is the striving towards our goals and the authenticity of our cause that gives hope to its future realization. What good are plans without the Will with which to bring them to materialization? What good are plans that do not take into account a changing reality? We must think on our feet sometimes, but it is sureness of action that is the key to attaining our goals, and so our connection to Chaos and Nature must inform our actions in a way that enables us to plan for a future based on ideals that seem radical when looked at from the point of view of contemporary consensus opinion, but which dare to question the overriding norms of the current discourse in art, politics, religion/spirituality and culture. Everything seems a bit too fragmented at times, as if some invisible hand were preventing the cohesion of forces at our disposal. Only a dynamic, intelligent strategy will do against the great tide that bears against us. The Waltons of Archeofuturism will carry the flame of tradition in the hearth of their loving homes, even though they may yet remain among the cities of the damned, they and their progeny shall come together as a family, they will leave the choking metropolis of Mammon to its inevitable fate and resettle in the ancestral lands to create a future for others of their kind, regardless of differences in opinion and belief. It is this flame, this ray of the Black Sun trapped in a prism that we must harness and focus in order to draw strength enough to go beyond struggle and towards Wu Wei and a future for our children.