Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) - Song of the Lark, 1876[/caption]The soil is the foundation of our European Culture, both in terms of practical sustenance and spiritually; The land has a mystical quality to which the Folk is rooted by ties of Family - of Blood - for generation upon generation. This is the meaning of that misunderstood and slandered concept Blood & Soil. The Village emerges to fill the social and economic needs of an expanding rural population to both sell produce and facilitate social communication. This is the beginning of a culture. As the Culture gives way to Civilization, the symbols are no longer the land and its Family/Blood rootedness, nor the Village; but the Town becoming City, and ultimately (at the last, 'Winter' phase of a Civilization) the Megalopolis, drawing the rural population into its embrace, submerging the city- dweller into a nebulous, alienated mass of proletarians and merchants without ties of land or blood and with at most a precarious notion of family. Above it all stand the new lords and masters: the Bankers, with their democratic political demagogues.
The philosopher-historian Oswald Spengler, writes of this disintegration in ‘The Decline of The West’:
"The Megalopolis - skeptical,practical, artificial - alone. Represents Civilization today. The soil-peasantry before its gates does not count. The 'People' means the city-people, an inorganic mass, something fluctuating.”
Blood & Soil - A Heathen Manifesto
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