Good Read - The Fate of Northernkind - by Charles L. Carroll, Jr.

LAST WEEK I stopped to fill my fuel tank at a self-service gas station. As I waited for my tank to fill, I noticed a young redhead who was also filling her tank. Her alabaster skin, sprinkling of freckles, green eyes and upturned nose were good indications that her hair color was natural. That made her a rare individual. Each generation, natural blondes and natural redheads are becoming fewer in number. Not all White people are blondes or redheads — I’m not, for example — but they represent something special about our race and our heritage, and are among the most envied people on earth. To prove my point, just think of all the hair dye bought and used by women to make themselves more attractive. How many brunettes dye their hair blonde or red? There is something instinctive about this tropism toward fairness. The basic instincts which have helped to shape our species operate on a sub-rational level. We may not be consciously aware of this special attraction, but it exists.

All of these thoughts brought to mind a book that I have been reading, Ascent of the Mind by William H. Calvin. It’s a scholarly interpretation of the effects of the ice ages on the intellectual development of our race. The human brain has increased in size by a factor of four in the last 2.5 million years. This rapid rate of development is almost unheard of in nature. Dr. Calvin makes an excellent argument that this increase in cranial size is due primarily to the ice ages. The ice ages occurred in cycles. We experience spring, summer, fall and winter every year. The ice ages cycled every 100,000 years with smaller ice ages every 10,000 years. When the two cycles coincided, the glaciers covered most of the European continent, the cradle of our people. Life was extremely difficult for early European man during those periods. Only the most fit — and the most intelligent — survived those harsh times. The weak and the mentally incompetent perished in the limitless ice and snow. The ability to plan ahead demanded self-denial in the summer in order to ensure survival during the long, bleak winters. Those who could work together for the common good also increased their odds for survival. This, in time, developed into a social order that is as much instinctual as it is learned. Another thing that happened was that our appearance changed. As our brains got larger, our jaws receded and our forehead became nearly vertical instead of sloping. Our skin became nearly white, and our hair and eyes became lighter. Whiteness in Nature, of course, is the great signifier of the North, of the creatures which developed in the harshness of the ice and snow. We carry this mark of the North. We instinctively associate these qualities of appearance with nobility, character, and intelligence — and our instincts are right.

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