National Reformation Radio

Host: Joshua Noyer Participants: Ryan Massey, Siri Khalsa, and Brett Bartlett. Topics: A. Importance of the NRP B. American policy towards Russia and the Ukraine C. Canadian Trucker's Blockade D. Legacy of Woodrow Wilson 

Free me from my fellows, let me alone to work out the salvation of my own glorious self, and surely (so I may fancy) I shall now for the first time show who I am. No, not so; on the contrary I merely show in such a case who I am not. I am no longer friend, brother, companion, co-worker, servant, citizen, father, son; I exist for nobody; and erelong, perhaps to my surprise, generally to my horror, I discover that I am nobody. Written by Josiah Royce Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-social-self Royce, Josiah. Essay. In The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, 207–8. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1892.

No one has thus far defined the “middle of the road.” We inscribe it on our banners and yet if you will ask a man for a definition no two will agree. As I understand “middle of the road,” it means that the old party methods of corruption, fraud and ballot-box stuffing, which have been resorted to in securing elections, must be abandoned and a course that is pure, that is lofty, patriotic and just shall be adopted. That is “the middle of the road,” as I understand it. Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/william-allen-address-at-the-populist-national-convention-july-22-1896 William Allen Address at the Populist National Convention, July 22, 1896 William Jennings Bryan, Pp. 264-270 The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896, W. B. Conkey Company, 1896

Host: Ryan Massey Participants: Siri Khalsa, Brandon Lenig, and Joshua Noyer

"Idealism starts from the opposite principle, namely, that the good of the individual is identical with the good of the community. It is held to be man's nature that he cannot find permanent satisfaction except in identifying his personal good with the good of the community." Written by John Watson Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-morality-of-the-state Watson, John. In The State in Peace and War, 212–218. Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1919  

Rights are not creatures of the physical laws of the universe. Instead, we must recognize them for what they are- social constructs, socially negotiated. And, like most things in our society, the discussion around rights has become extremely imbalanced, shallow, and incurious. Written and Narrated by Siri Khalsa Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/rights-and-duties-duties-and-rights  

The only individuality worth having is that full and rounded culture of body, mind, and soul, which brings out in each human being the utmost of which he is capable. Thus only, is he individualized; thus only, is he differentiated from his kind. Any system which does not cultivate such a manhood, or at least afford to every man the opportunity and incentive to do it for himself, has no right to invoke the sacred name of Individuality.   Written by Charles Chadbourne Narrated by Joshua Noyer   Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/will-it-destroy-individuality  

American history is full of its brutalities and negative aspects. However, if the contemporary world has taught us anything, it's that present day Americans believe in absolutely nothing. Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/better-to-dance-with-the-devil  

Items discussed: The Need for Universal unionization and the problem with inflation within the Covid pandemic. The importance of comprehensive systemic economic change and how it's related to Occupational Organicity. We also discuss the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt and how it ties into the issue of immigration. Hosts: Ryan Massey and John Savage Participants: Joshua Noyer and Siri Khalsa

A State run media may not be perfect, but the elimination of the profit motive will cause it to serve as a much better medium for information and upholder of a nation's values. Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-greatest-enemy-of-a-free-people  

"The ideological solution misses the one integral law of the Universe; all things tend towards Unity. Whether it be politics, economics, or science, the relations and principles which bind living things together bring the diversity of existence into a functioning system where everything has a place and a purpose." Narrated and Written by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/occupational-representation    

Host: Ryan Massey Participants: Joshua Noyer, Siri Khalsa 

Extension of state control is not so much a question of increasing or diminishing as of reorganizing restraints. There is no difficulty in understanding why the extension of state control on the one side should not go hand in hand with determined resistance to encroachments on the other. Practically what is called increase of state control is often of the nature of decrease in the total amount of restraint. The object of state coercion is to a large degree to override coercion by individuals and by associations of individuals within the state, and such a function, so far as I can see, is consistent only with the assumption of the competence of the state to decide between the conflicting interests. Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-nature-of-the-community Written by Wilbur Urban Narrated by Joshua Noyer Urban, Wilbur. “The Nature of the Community.” The Philosophical Review 28, no. 6 (November 1919): 547–61.

"For a man's self has no contents, no plans, no purposes, except those which are, in one way or another, defined for him by his social relations." Written by Josiah Royce Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/to-be-freely-loyal 93-95 Royce, Josiah. The Philosophy of Loyalty. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1908.

Hosts: Eliot Girardi and John Savage Participants: Joshua Noyer, Siri Khalsa, and Brandon Lenig https://www.nationalreformation.org/  

"When we see community as a process, at that moment we recognize that freedom and law must appear together. I integrate opposing tendencies in my own nature and the result is freedom, power, law. To express the personality I am creating, to live the authority I am creating, is to be free. From biology, social psychology, all along the line, we learn one lesson: that man is rising into consciousness of self as freedom in the forms of law. Law is the entelechy of freedom. The forms of government, of industry, must express this psychological truth." Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/community-is-a-process Written by Mary Parker Follett Narrated by Joshua Noyer Follett, M. P. “Community Is a Process.” The Philosophical Review 28, no. 6 (1919): 576. https://doi.org/10.2307/2178307  

Hosts: Eliot Girardi and John Savage Participants: Joshua Noyer, and Brandon Lenig

It can easily be demonstrated that the failures which are said to accompany married life are the results of the present social order that lays upon the shoulders of the individual, the burden which society itself ought to carry and could easily carry; that does not recognize the right of man to the means wherewith to sustain life, even if he is willing to contribute his share of work to their production; that spans the masses before the coach of society upon which Hunger sits as the coachman and cracks his deep cutting whip; and that allows only a select few to enjoy an airy seat upon the chariot, holding out over them, even, the dread that they may lose their seats and tumble down from their height to be crushed by the wheels of the vehicle. Written by Solomon Schindler Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/is-marriage-a-failure Schindler, Solomon. “Is Marriage a Failure.” The Nationalist Volume 1 (1889): 47–51. https://archive.org/details/TheNationalist-Volume1-1889/page/n57/mode/2up

It must not be forgotten that this new social doctrine has come not to destroy but to fulfill whatever is true in the old individualistic conceptions. In other words, the modern point of view which is affecting so profoundly the relation of man to society may also be described as a more adequate realization of the nature of individuality. It shows how completely the concrete content of individuality is social. Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-social-nature-of-thinking Written by James E. Creighton Narrated by Joshua Noyer Creighton, J. E. “The Social Nature of Thinking.” The Philosophical Review 27, no. 3 (1918): 274. https://doi.org/10.2307/2178799  

The argument I put forward in this paper is that, despite the surface similarities and apparent continuity between contemporary forms of protest to their historical progenitors, there is a darker and more sinister nature to what we've seen over the last few years in comparison to the past. Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/down-with-the-protest-warriors More from Noyer: https://www.nationalreformation.org/chronicles/categories/noyers-thoughts  

"The essence of any community is a mutual recognition that as a collective we all share a common history, wants, and concerns; that you recognize in your neighbor a bond which transcends the visibly obvious, that he lives in close proximity to you." Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/some-thoughts-on-minneapolis  

Hosts: Eliot Girardi, Johns Savage Participant: Joshua Noyer

"For our purposes, the community is a being that attempts to accomplish something in time and through the deeds of its members. These deeds belong to the life which each member regards as, in ideal, his own." Written by Josiah Royce Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-ideal-self-and-the-community-of-time “Pp. 60-67.” The Problem of Christianity Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and at Manchester College, Oxford Vol II, by Josiah Royce, Macmillan, 1914.   

"The rule that time is needed for the formation of a conscious community is a rule which finds its extremely familiar analogy within the life of every individual human self. Each one of us knows that he just now, at this instant, cannot find more than a mere fragment of himself present. The self comes down to us from its own past. It needs and is a history. Each of us can see that his own idea of himself as this person is inseparably bound up with his view of his own former life, of the plans that he formed, of the fortunes that fashioned him, and of the accomplishments which in turn he has fashioned for himself. A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past." Written by Josiah Royce Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/community-of-time “Pp. 35-53.” The Problem of Christianity Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and at Manchester College, Oxford Vol II, by Josiah Royce, Macmillan, 1914.

Host: Joshua Noyer Participants: Brandon Lenig, Eliot Girardi, John Savage    

"We are apt to speak and act as if freedom were a negative term, as if it meant freedom from, instead of freedom to. And so, there is a great deal of mutual complacency, of easy-going live and let live, and a spineless tolerance of wrong that does not directly and obviously touch us as individuals." Written by Charles Bakewell Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/novum-itinerarium-mentis-in-deum Bakewell, Charles M. “Novum Itinerarium MENTIS in Deum.” The Philosophical Review 25, no. 3 (1916): 255

"The idea that master and man, the so-called employer and employee, are in opposition to each other must disappear. They must learn that they belong to each other, that they must collaborate harmoniously in human society for their mutual good and for the good of the community as a whole." Written by Egelbert Dollfuss Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/thoughts-on-corporatism  

Host Joshua Noyer - Joined by Eliot Girardi and John Savage  

It is of great importance to recognise that the State cannot be identified with the Government, which is merely the organ through which the harmony of the various organisations included in the State is effected. “The State,” as Mr. Bosanquet says, “ includes the whole hierarchy of institutions by which life is determined, from the family to the trade, and from the trade to the Church and the University. It is the structure which gives life and meaning to the political whole.” Watson, John. In The State in Peace and War, 202–12. Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1919. Written by John Watson Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/idealism-and-the-state  

"All this serves to show that in their hearts the people do not believe in democracy as it is understood today; they demand authority and leadership, and left to themselves they would not, if it were honest, think of questioning it. It is exploitation to which they object and rightly object, and they only challenge authority when it is too closely associated with exploitation. The people realize that under any system, democratic or otherwise, they must obey; and that democratic institutions do not mean government by the people any more than monarchy or aristocracy, but government by a caucus who exercise authority in the name of the people." Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-degeneration-of-socialism Written by Arthur Penty Narrated by Joshua Noyer The American Review, December 1936, pp. 216-233

The State of the old order was a cold, far-off relic, to be admired from a distance but not known. Our conception of the State is one that includes everything and everybody under its jurisdiction, no longer isolated and alone but working together for a common purpose and goal. Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/what-s-in-a-symbol  

"The family is the first ethical root of the state; the corporation is the second, and it is based in civil society. The former contains the moments of subjective particularity and objective universality in substantial unity; but in the latter, these moments, which in civil society are at first divided into the internally reflected particularity of need and satisfaction and abstract legal universality, are inwardly united in such a way that particular welfare is present as a right and is actualized within this union." Read Along: Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/hegel-the-first-corporatist Written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Narrated by Joshua Noyer Pp 152-154 Knox, T. M. (1975). Hegel's Philosophy of Right. London: Oxford University Press.

Host: Joshua Noyer Participants: Brandon Lenig, John Savage, and Guhen

"Civil society is man's natural state, for every man is dependent on his fellow-men. All men are regulated by, and owe their freedom to one law, the great law — “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." This law is, in fact, the vital force of the political organism, the State. The State thus becomes the giver of all our rights; our civilization; our exalted condition which men individually never would have been able to attain; and our ability to wage war with the inabilities of our "natural" condition, to subdue nature, to redress natural defects and inequalities." Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-sphere-of-the-state Wills, Frederick M. “The Sphere of the State.” The Nationalist II, no. 5 (April 1890): 155-162 https://archive.org/details/TheNationalist-Volume2-1890/page/n217/mode/2up. More on the State: https://www.nationalreformation.org/chronicles/categories/the-state    

"Every student of these problems knows that likeness and difference are two aspects of the world that simply cannot be sundered even by the utmost efforts of abstraction. In a sense, any two objects that you recognize as real, or as possible, have points of resemblance. In a sense, also, any two objects, however nearly alike, have differences."   Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/likeness-and-difference   Royce, Josiah. Essay. In The World and the Individual, 46–53. 2nd. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913.    

Host: Joshua Noyer Participants: Johns Savage, Marianne Savage, Eliot Girardi

"If, instead of viewing the phenomena of tradition and innovation through the lenses of opposing sides, we view them as functional sides of a single whole, we can begin to see how integral and necessary they are to each other." Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/from-tradition-to-innovation-and-everything-in-between More from Noyer: https://www.nationalreformation.org/chronicles/categories/noyers-thoughts  

"Taking it, however, as if it were prima facie roughly true, that every different finite individual has a single and separate work or function in society, which corroborates, so to speak, the distinctness of his formal selfhood; we are still in presence of a thoroughgoing identity in diversity." Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/identity-in-diversity Written by Bernard Bosanquet Narrated by Joshua Noyer Pp. 49-54 Bosanquet, Bernard. The Value and Destiny of the Individual. The Gifford Lectures for 1912, Etc. Pp. xxxii. 331. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1913.

"Thus, neither a nation nor a State can arise out of contract between individuals. A sum of individual wills does not produce a common will. The renunciation of any number of private rights does not produce any public right." Written by J.K. Bluntschli Narrated by Brandon Lenig Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/a-criticism-of-social-contract-theory

"Without the environment, there can be no survival.  We live a natural, as well as a humanly-created world.  Ninety-seven percent of the world's scientists say that global warming is real.  Resource depletion, overpopulation, and mounting complexity energy also threaten human existence and are major causes of wars.  The National Reformation Party works to promote resource conservation, species preservation, recycling, and renewable energy. National parks, wild areas, reserves, and other lands must be preserved and expanded, coupled with education programs.  Integrated with this should be re-forestation and other environmental renewal, regeneration of coral reefs and species, and carbon sequestering."    Participants: Joshua Noyer, Eliot Girardi, John Savage, Mark Dasacco, and Guhen.  

"Thus the state, which in its historical reality is a fabric of law, is reduced to a business concern by an ‘economic interpretation of history' which destroys the concreteness of legal fact and replaces it by the abstractions of utilitarian ethics; and we get socialism or the substitution of economics for justice, with its natural corollary, the destruction of that internal ‘king's peace' which the political spirit has guarded through centuries as the very flame of its domestic altar, and the declaration of a class war which is the explicit negation of the state." Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/duty-or-concrete-ethics Written by Robin Collingwood Narrated by Joshua Noyer Pp 227-231 Collingwood, R. G. Speculum Mentis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.  

It is again not in the interests of a community to sanction contracts for labour which is carried on under conditions which imperil the life and safety of those engaged in the labour, for that is subordinating the person to the contract instead of the contract to the person. Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-moral-and-legal-aspects-of-labor Written by James Black Baillie Narrated by Joshua Noyer Baillie, J. B. “The Moral and Legal Aspects of Labour.” The Philosophical Review 20, no. 3 (1911): 249. https://doi.org/10.2307/2177849

It is by some such logic that I declare, without hesitation, for the sovereignty of the State, the spiritual State. For upon what is sovereignty based if not upon authority? And how, amidst the clash of the social forces, can authority survive, unless it be the final court of appeal in the sphere of reason? Written by Samuel Hobson Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/national-guilds-and-the-state Hobson, S. (1920). What I Believe. In National Guilds and the State (pp. 348-359). London: G. Bell and Sons.

"In the liberty (originality) of poetic thought, the race disappears, and along with many other conditions it is transformed into truth. Everyone claims to have given convictions because they are just or true or well founded, not because, for instance, an ancestor of his was a Teuton or a Latin. The past is the wealth and more than the wealth of thought, but it would be useless to look to the past for the principle of universality." Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-dearth-of-racial-thought Written by Leone Vivante Narrated by Joshua Noyer “Pp 34-37.” Notes on the Originality of Thought: the Concept of Internal Necessity: Poetic Thought and Constructive Thought, by Leone Vivante, S.n.}, 1927.

With the acknowledgement that as human beings we have both material and spiritual needs.  An economy is needed which would be tailored to fulfill those needs. Occupational Organicity; the idea that society is constructed along the lines of the human body, containing a plethora of individuals with different talents, skills, and occupations, all having separate tasks but working together for a common purpose and goal within the same State structure. This will address the material aspects of our existence through its shared decision making structure and management of competition; with the aim of avoiding the cutthroat nature of modern business along with the desire to maximize profits through the reduction of wages and benefits.  While Capitalism commodifies the individual through reducing the worker to nothing more than a part within the production process. Occupational Organicity recognizes the skills possessed by each individual as being an inherently valuable part of society; guaranteeing through reliable employment the ability to improve upon that skill while securely supporting a family. Through the Guilds the individual becomes conscious of the link that exists the State, Nation, and Individual. Participants: Joshua Noyer, Brandon Lenig, Eliot Girardi, Ian, John Maniglia, and John Savage. 

We can imagine humanity without a number of important attributes; but humanity without government is simply unthinkable, for it would then be humanity without reason. Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-family-state Written by Heinrich Von Treitschke Narrated by Joshua Noyer More about the State: https://www.nationalreformation.org/chronicles/categories/the-state Treitschke, Heinrich von. “The State Idea.” In Politics, 4–5. New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963.  

"Yet Realism, if indeed strictly sane, as sanity goes amongst us men, is a view as falsely abstract as it is convenient. This sundering of external and internal meaning is precisely what our later study will show to be impossible." Written by Josiah Royce Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-doom-of-realism Royce, Josiah. In The World and the Individual. Gifford Lectures, 72–77. New York: Macmillan, 1900.

In short, we get back to the conditions which foredoomed democracy to failure in the ancient Greek and medieval republics, where party lines were horizontal and class warred against class, each in consequence necessarily substituting devotion to the interest of a class for devotion to the interest of the state and to the elementary ideas of morality. Written by Theodore Roosevelt Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/fellow-feeling-as-a-political-factor Published in the “CENTURY,” January, 1900

"Faith and logic become synonymous through their mutual dependence on each other, just as do the existence of love, anger, passion, and contentment. The ties that bind may at first glance appear to be the cause of division, but in the end, they are what make us." Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/maintaining-perspective More from Noyer: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/maintaining-perspective  

"We make a great mistake in thinking of the force exercised by the State as limited to the restraint of disorderly persons by the police and the punishment of intentional lawbreakers. The State is the fly-wheel of our life." Written by Bernard Bosanquet Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-state-as-the-will-of-the-nation Pp 150-154 Bosanquet, B. (1899). The philosophical theory of the state. London: Macmillan.

We recognize that while the problems which afflict American society are universal in nature; where and how they manifest are unique, requiring solutions which reflect both universality and the particular circumstances from whence they arise.  The philosophical rationale which informs and is the antecedent to National Reformationism derives from three primary but not exclusive sources. Philosophical Idealism, which recognizes the spiritual nature of reality and rejects the materialism and determinism which is at the root of so many of the contemporary world's problems.  Early 20th, late 19th century American Populism which foresaw the dangers to American society of an unregulated economy, and was critical of the guiding philosophy of the time period which glorified the individual at the expense of the collective group.  Classical fascism as the third pillar of the triad takes the philosophy and the criticism of the other two and gives them shape and form through the structure of the State. National Reformationism is the State in action. Citizens through their reverence for truth are bound together as the State as the social organism, and the state guarantees the citizen. Participants: Joshua Noyer, Eliot Girardi, and John Savage Learn more about Populism: https://www.nationalreformation.org/chronicles/categories/populism-1 Learn more about Idealism: https://www.nationalreformation.org/chronicles/categories/idealism-theory Learn more about Fascism: https://www.nationalreformation.org/chronicles/categories/fascism