The true herdist (who certainly is not always a pervert) is nothing but an egoist who cannot tolerate anybody differing from himself. John Doe, the identitarian, wants a nation, a world, a universe peopled by millions of John Does. He cannot sympathize nor like anybody at variance with John Doe. No wonder that his wishful dream is a humanity of John Does without God or Devil. The herdist is by necessity a humanitarian.
Humanitarianism had always a great difficulty in seeking to stabilize its position. The denial of God and soul created an anthropocentrism which by a trend of its own tended to identify humanity with “nature.” Humanitarianism, which started with the most sentimental premise (man is God), ended therefore finally with the acceptance of the law of the jungle. The Leftist mentality of today is hardly characterized by a loving mildness. Irving Babbitt in his Rousseau and Romanticism has pointed out that the early “romantic” theatrical productions attacked primarily the lachrymose glands of the spectators. Profuse weeping and crying took place even on the stage itself.
What a contradiction to the latest phase of humanitarianism and anthropocentrism! The young National Socialist is not less tearless than the young Communist. Ilya Ehrenburg wrote a novel called Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, and indeed it does not.
Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The Menace of the Herd or
Procrustes at Large
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