On Bloodlines

What is the meaning of life?

The Hindu believe Life has no meaning. It just is. Life does not require a Meaning.

I for one think that this central epistemological question is crucial to determining whether or not you matter.

There are two sorts of people on this earth.

1. There are those who believe in Tradition, Blood, Genes, and look to their Ancestors to chart a course for their Descendants. They are the true Nobility. The ancient Romans patricians had their forefathers funeral masks and busts in their living room, like Victorian pictures of dead relatives, to remind them where they came from. I agree with that. We are mere chain links uniting our dead relatives, our forefathers and foremothers, with the distant future. The Present does not exist. The Past shows us the way forward into the Future. Those of us who obey its commands are Noble. Those who do not…
2. Belong with the Rustics. And the Earth is full of people, who remember their last meal, and only care about their next. Having the latest iPhone is inconsequential. Technology matters little if it comes at the price of neglecting moral growth. These People barely survive. They are sterile. They are barren hedonists, whose names mean nothing, and will be erased from historical record by the ineluctable passage of time, just as surely as a million years from now, Apollo 13’s footprints will vanish from the Moon.

Blood is Everything. You do not understand how painfully obvious this is.

Whatever we do in life will echo in Eternity but only if our Offspring carry onward the flame of our Legacy. And in order for that to happen, you must educate your children about the Importance of Blood.

Genealogy is what separates the wheat from the chaff. People of consequence do not live outside their Legacy. Everything they do, they do it for the Family Name. That’s why it is vital that you know your Roots. It is your job to understand where you are coming from. Somewhere, somehow, someone, a distant relative you may not have known or be aware of, left a clue as to their ancestors’ wishes and aspirations.

Your job, your only job is to discover that and bring it to light, make it a Reality.

One must tread carefully against the wishes and wills of their forefathers and foremothers. To do so indiscriminately means to injure and harm your family name. Your Blood dictates that you Obey the desiderates of the Past. Straying from your Family’s Direction will put you on a path of self-destruction. Doing so, misguided by the belief you may know better than a long-gone parent or grand-parent, will annihilate your Genes.

It would be suicidal.

You are just a Steward of the Family Name. Nothing more. Nothing less. You only have one job in life. Protect la famiglia no matter what. Blood is Everything. Legacy is All. Your Forefathers are watching over you from beyond this Realm. The Past is the Foundation of your Future. Your path was designed for you a long time ago. Everything is fixed and you cannot change it.

My greatest motivator is knowing that. God has willed it that I be born and exist in this time and age. The Doctrine of Predestination says I must do this and that, according to His Design.

I may not like it. I actually don’t have to like it. But I still have to live my life by It.

The Tragedy of Human Endeavour is that we have to carry our Cross even though one day our Footprints will come to naught. What we do from now till then will postpone the inevitable demise of the Memory of Us.