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"Liberalism comes from the Roman god Liber and means debauchery" is a take that has been circulating in the radical right for a few weeks now. It's one of those things that sounds right but it's etymologically inaccurate. https://x.com/keithwoodsyt/status/1807157023588434238?s=46 Really, the truth is much more sinister. Latin libertas is indeed related to the Roman god Liber, who is the god of growth and vegetation. It's also related to the Latin word for "children" (liberi), the German and Old Slavic words for people (Leute, ljudu), the Gothic and Sanskrit words for "grow" (liudan, rudh-), and others. Libertas, ancient Roman "liberty", draws on the common theme between vegetation, growth, and folkhood; it is a metaphor to describe a common stock or breed. This is the ORIGINAL sense, which can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-Europeans. For an archaic Roman, to be "free" meant PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE of what it later came to mean. It did not mean "do what you feel like", to be "free" meant rather to be bound and circumscribed by one's group membership. To be free meant precisely to be constrained. It meant to be part of a folkhood. Later in Roman history, we get structural conflict that set the underclasses against the patriciate class. The term libertas (meaning essentially, "our guy") was repurposed to mean its exact opposite. Now it meant "unconstrained", "free" as we now know it (something similar happened with the Germanic term free). It is important to understand that this is a late and illegitimate inversion of the term, much in the same way "gay" now no longer means "happy", but something ugly. In the modern age, revolutionary liberals attempted to give their anti-traditionalism some ancient precedent and seized upon the term libertas, not knowing any of this. There are some important takeaways here: 1) Whenever you see a term's meaning completely inverted, you can infer revolution. This is an incredibly useful rule of thumb. 2) The whole "we wuz ancient liberals" thing is based on historical illiteracy. There was never a time where freedom (as we know it today) was prized by Europeans, except when their civilizations were falling apart. 3) The original sense of "freedom" is folkhood. You are only free in that you are part of a tribe, and this sense of freedom means the opposite of what that word means today. To be a free man means to belong to a group, to be unable to leave it, to be bound by its laws and customs, and to see the outsider as the opposite of the liberi—which is the servus, or slave.

We invite you to participate in the first annual Exiles of the Golden Age conference, a cultural event featuring international and local speakers which aims to introduce both new and mostly forgotten ideas and perspectives to an audience struggling with modernity. Our keynote speaker this year is Tom Rowsell, a British historian and content creator best known for his YouTube channel, Survive the Jive, which deals with Indo-European history, spirituality and genetics. Other speakers will touch on a wide variety of subjects, from Western philosophy to spirituality, but the motivation of all those who speak and attend this conference will be the same: to find our way, through a dark and broken world, to a new Golden Age. The conference will take place on Saturday, August 17th in the Lower Mainland (BC, Canada, specific location TBA). Space for this event will be limited. Tickets may be purchased using the link below: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/exilesofthegoldenage/1166152

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Nice comprehensive review of our book The Indo-European Household. When we put this book out last year it struck a real chord with people as The Ancient City did a few years before, and became one of our bestsellers. We constantly call for rebuilding the clan structure as a matter of both spiritual and a political revival of our people. This book is basically an instruction manual on how to do that, as well as the fascinating story of how centralization has undermined the unique character of peoples. https://aidanmacmillan.substack.com/p/report-on-the-indo-european-household

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