just like everything else available to white people in this country
Wouldn't go that far. I mean, they could just look at what they actually are, and construct an identity around that. What they actually are has little to do with Germanic heritage, and race is only one of many possible ways to create a tribal affiliation anyhow. I'm pretty culturally removed from most members of both racial group in my family tree, but I don't feel psychologically adrift or anything. (Granted, I might just not know what I'm missing - I do feel pretty good when I meet people who are similar to me in real life.)
Obviously, i's hard for ethno-nationalists, since they are basically contrarians in this society and can only reach "tribe" level numbers via the internet. But it's not hard for most white people. White Americans are a lot more culturally homogeneous than say, Hindus. (Or any large non-Western grouping. Technology homogenizes.)
What are we actually, then, that we can construct an identity out of?
The feeling of missing something only kicks in, I suspect, after the thing that is missed is experienced. A good example is dance: it doesn't really exist in our society outside subcultures, but I thought that didn't matter until I took up contra. (Which I really ought to get back into now that I'm in NYC -- do they even have it up here? It's been something like five years, too...)
Similarly, I first noticed the importance of thedish identity, ritual, and traditions when I went to a very...
Through LessWrong, I've discovered the no-reactionary movement. Servery says that there are some of you here.
I'm curious, what lead you to accept the basic premises of the movement? What is the story of your personal "conversion"? Was there some particular insight or information that was important in convincing you? Was it something that just "clicked" for you or that you had always felt in a vague way? Were any of you "raised in it"?
Feel free to forward my questions to others or direct me towards a better forum for asking this.
I hope that this is in no way demeaning or insulting. I'm genuinely curious and my questioning is value free. If you point me towards compelling evidence of the neo-reactionary premise, I'll update on it.