Pigs and Aristocrats

1. In Europe there is war, it is a fact. As in many cases of the past, the war that is currently pitting Ukraine against Russia is nothing more than a cog in a greater struggle involving distant economies, ascending and descending empires and destinies that, until recently, seemed to have little in common with each other. For those who believe, the mysterious plans of Heaven are also intertwined in this war. As in ancient myths, mysterious powers take the field, on both sides.

2. Darya Dugina have fallen in war, and that is also a fact. Darya Dugina died in a war that the West began in the now distant 2014, but which she, in reality, had been fighting for much longer, alone and with few people, when today's warfare still seemed far away, and the cannons were still silent.

3. This war, of which the Ukrainian one is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg, is everywhere. Not only in the ukrainian battlefields therefore, but also in the West itself, around and inside all those who try to oppose the slimy ideological sedimentation that the West itself produces in the form of toxic waste that kills the ancient civilizations that fall prey to it.

4. Dugina was an aristocrat, and she left this world as such. Aristocrat of the spirit, born in a context where one is raised to fight, from the first day of life, she has enjoyed, studied and lived the highest fruits of human culture, and as for many aristocrats of the past, the honors of real life have required the burden of death.

5. That the bomb that hit her was probably intended for her father makes no difference. This is how wars work, and this is how those who have chosen to fight die, struck by the whim of fate. Sometimes it is a choice, as for the Japanese kamikaze warriors of seventy years ago, or as for the Italian hero Pietro Micca, who committed suicide in the powder keg of Turin to save the city from the besiegers of the Roi Soleil in 1706.

6. For many who die in Ukraine today, war was not a choice, but only an obligatory passage, a dangerous bottleneck, for some with no way out, in the ravine of their own destiny. For Dugina, on the contrary, it was a choice. Many have obeyed a president's call to arms, Daria has obeyed her vocation, this is what made her an aristocrat even in her death.

7. His earthly journey, which ended at the eastern gates of Europe, closely resembles a completely different man, Dominque Venner, another European aristocrat, who ended his life in a heroic act which, although completely different in type of event and context, remains similar, in its essence, to that of Dugina.

8. The ancient Romans, founders of the first Rome, and therefore spiritual ancestors of the founders of the third, knew, in their most archaic beginnings, a ritual called “devotio”, which gave them invincibility in battle and which, the chronicles confirm, where it was celebrated guaranteed every time victory. It was an obscure rite, connected to the underground divinities, which consecrated the celebrant, a Roman aristocrat, to the infernal divinities. After completing the prescribed rites, the celebrant, called "Homo sacer", threw himself into battle outside the ranks caught in an ineradicable fury, ready to be killed by the enemy. The enemies, who killed him, thus performed the human sacrifice to the gods to which the consecrated person had turned, themselves bringing the rite to its happiest fulfilment. Then the battles turned to the best for the Roman people who, against all apparent odds, triumphed over their overwhelming enemies.

9. Venner, at the western gates of Europe, left his life in a way not too dissimilar from the Roman warriorpriests. Although they occurred in different ways, the conclusions of the earthly journeys of Dominique Venner and Darya Dugina both bear the sign of choice, and therefore of aristocracy. The same essence emerges in both acts, clearly showing a common matrix that does not die, despite the millennia and catastrophes.

10. The thousand-year-old European warrior civilization, product of warrior aristocracies, continues to manifest itself in the aristocrats of the struggle. Venner and Darya Dugina are two of these aristocrats: the first commits suicide behind enemy lines, the second in the trenches, in front of the same enemy.

11. The aristocracy of struggle and choice, matrix and at the same time origin of European civilization, is exemplified in the fruitful practice of struggle. Thomas Carlyle, another thought guerrilla behind enemy lines, described in great detail who the ideological enemy of the aristocracy was. Defining the ideology of his enemies, he described it as "the ideology of the pig", which, obeying the sole attraction for matter, seeks nothing more than "to increase the quantity of accessible goods and to decrease what remains out of reach" .

12. Darya Dugina, as well as Venner, knew very well that her choice obeyed higher principles than those of the materialism that put an end to her existence. The choice to voluntarily brandish the banner that opposes materialism is already, by its nature, an aristocratic choice that opposes the ideology of the pig, against any individual interest.

13. Living up to two giants like Darya Dugina and Venner were not everyone's duty, the aristocracy cannot, by definition, be a mass. It is, however, obligatory for those who, like those who are here today, aspire to be the avant-gardes and standard-bearers who oppose the ideology of the pig.

14. Being avant-garde and standard-bearer is, in an upright society, the only privilege granted to aristocracies. Everything else, as demonstrated by the story of the two heroes I mentioned, is sacrifice. Not only the most extreme, which may never arrive, but rather a forest of sacrifices, often far from the heroism of the battlefield, but equally frustrating in everyday life. An everyday life that, in the West, seems farther and farther every day from our ideals. All of us here, I am sure, hear a voice every day which, mellifluous and seductive, invites us to follow, in the name of our own interests, what Carlyle called the "ideology of the pig". Darya Dugina still lives, as well as in the arms of the Eternal Father, in our hearts, in that voice which, every day, continues to tell us that we are not, nor would we ever want to be, pigs. Thank you.