Modernity and its supporting philosophies have done much to subtly disconnect individual men and their families from what is a natural and healthy sentimentality, that is, loyalty to, and by consequence, a real sense of duty to both their ancestors in their family and more widely, their ethnicity, nation and race.
It benefits the political and financial interests of the current ruling class that all men, women and children are raised within the mental paradigm of being a true individual, liberated from all duties to others, a true consumer to enjoy the fruits of consumer capitalism without burdens to family, community and nation.
The Australian Charles H. Pearson wrote in his 1893 National Life and Character, ‘The child in an old society knew that his father had not cast him into the streets as a foundling, had not sold him as a slave or given him away, and had provided him with food, clothing, and education out of parental tenderness. The child in a modern society knows that the parent has done little more for him than the law and public opinion exact, and draws the conclusion, very often not unreasonably, that he has no great cause to be grateful.’
Much flows from this perspective if considered. Do not the spoilt children of the upper classes or the neglected children of the poor grow up feeling little or no loyalty to their family? this too extends more broadly to diminishing their sense of connection and loyalty to their ancestors, and their wider family which is the nation itself. Children raised who saw their parents labour hard and struggle for the sake of the children will more often have great bonds to their parents and a significant sense of loyalty to them, and are more often than not, more interested in the broader family ancestry, and the nation at large.
More broadly, this is applied to the Australian political context, where young Australian men have been so far neglected, excluded, betrayed and alienated by the cosmopolitan political elite, that they refuse to enlist in the Australian Defense Forces and have in many cases refused to, or see no value in, participating in the greater economy as they wish to withdraw support from the state and economy which can be often perceived as showing little more than but contempt for them.
One underpinning element that can be observed in the membership of the ANA is that we all carry with us a sense of underlying loyalty to the previous generations of Australians who through great adversity struggled to build a beautiful home under the southern cross for us, which they saw as the future generations. Nativists look to the starvation and strife of the early union movement in the 19th century who fought bravely against financial interests and the introduction of Asiatic scab labourers to the colonies, we remember the young generations poured out of the frontier towns and onto the beaches of Gallipoli and through the trenches of France; fighting for a freeman’s White Australia.
Within those hot struggles the steel of our loyalty is forged into shape, and from the blood sacrifice of those wars our courage is forged. None of us in good conscience can hide in fear facing only social ostracization and financial pressure when we know our forebears gallantly charged across open paddocks and barbed wire against Turkish and German machine guns.
Our sense of intergenerational loyalty stretches much further however, we see ourselves as the beneficiaries of the inheritance of Rome and the British Isles, the liberties hard won their in battle, from the days of the Barons Wars to the English Civil war, we see our mixed constitutional framework and social order as hard-won victories which continued to grow and synthesize in Australia to create in the early 20th century one of the best nations the world had ever known.
Our loyalties extend just beyond the persons of our families and nations however: for those of us native born to Australia’s soil, we contemplate that our very bones and flesh are derived from the native produce of this soil, that by Australian hands the wheat, corn and lamb has been cultivated for our consumption and has fed us from infancy. We owe every gram of our body to this land which has so graciously supported us and our forebears, hence a loyalty to the environment of this country finds a prominent home in our intersecting loyalties as natives.
You friend, are not simply an individual, born into consumer society, uprooted from all others, free of responsibilities: You are the custodian of a heritage of many generations, the torchbearer of what our ancestors fought for, consequentially, you have a positive duty to maintain and advance the beautiful vision of Australia’s founding stock. Furthermore, you must, in your own life, be responsible to your family, and raise up the next generation who will bear the torch of our nation, to be the next custodians of the many hundreds of generations that have come before us, to continue and restore the honor of your family name and that of our nation.
Regardless of the political trajectory of this continent, we are the natural continuation of the Australian nation, our efforts will decide the destiny of our nation and must act accordingly.
M. K. Grant
National Governor
January, 2025