156. Kinship Is Mythical: The Underground History of
American Education by John Taylor Gatto from archive.org
Kinship
Is Mythical
Aryans, said Maine, were not overly sentimental about
children. They maintained the
right to kill or sell their children and carried this custom with them
as they spread over the earth,
almost up to the outskirts of modern
Beijing. These Great Ones had an intensely practical streak, tending to
extract from every association its maximum payoff.
This pragmatism led them to extend
privileges of kinship to every association in which a good chance of profit might lurk. This casual disregard of
blood ties led to powerful alliances
much more adaptable to local circumstance than any pure blood-allegiance system could be, such as the one the
Japanese practice. In other words, Anglo-Saxons were prepared to call anyone "family" for a price.
Similarly, Anglo-Saxon ties to priests
and gods were mostly ceremonial. All rules, ethics, and morals were kept
flexible, relative to the needs of
the moment. This lack of commitment to much of anything except possessions allowed Aryans to overturn
local ways in which people held to principles and to local faith.
Pragmatism was an
impressive and effective technological advance in politics, if not in morality. In the science of society,
the leadership reserved the right to lie, cheat, deceive, be generally faithless wherever advantage
presented itself, and not only to do these things to the enemy but to one's own people if need be — a moral
code well suited to a fast- moving
warrior people. But a price had to be paid. Over time, the idea of real
kinship became more and more fictitious,
family life characterized as much by ritual and ceremony as love. And in many places, said Maine, kinship,
owing to mass adoption of children
from conquered peoples, became mythical for whole clans. Nobody was who they said they were or thought themselves
to be.
It is surely one of
the grim ironies of history that the root identity of American elites was crystalizing at the turn of the century
around blood relationships to a warrior people so indifferent to blood relationships, they often had no idea
who they really were. With
Anglo-Saxons, the abstract principle always counted for more than flesh
and blood.
Once the character of the Aryans was
known, there remained only the exciting task of establishing the homeland, the ancient forge of these virile
conquerors. The behavioral ideals
they willed their descendants — to impose upon lesser peoples — were
written clearly
enough on the chalkboards of the new schooling. Total submission led the
list. But giving the Aryans a
birthplace (assuming it was the right one) would complete the circle of triumph. To the elite mind,
that job was over by 1880. The ancient ancestor could now be fixed by common agreement somewhere in the cold
North around the Baltic Sea. Some
said Scandinavia. Some said North-Central Germany. But the chief detectives holding the Anglo/ American
franchise on truth homed in on that zone between the Elbe and the Oder Rivers, to the lands comprising the
regions of modern Prussia!
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