The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Europe's Classical Heritage - Proud Sons of Rome and Macedon - What Do I Mean?
Aired: 2019-09-29
Duration: 07:04


=== Proud Sons of Rome (06:27) ===

[00:00:36]  Greetings proud sons of Rome.
[00:00:39]  Today I thought to explain why I say this and also explain a bit about European classical heritage.
[00:00:47]  So I'm currently at one of the absolutely most epic places in the world, near Segovia in Spain, San Ildefonso.
[00:00:56]  And as you can see behind me, some really epic statues.
[00:00:59]  I have made videos from here last year as well.
[00:01:01]  I will link that video below so you can check it out.
[00:01:05]  A classic training/slash nature video, and I might film some more for coming videos just because there's so much epicness here.
[00:01:13]  So basically, what we have to understand when talking about being proud sons of Rome, etc., it's more the metaphysical legacy of Rome as a pan-European thing rather than actual Rome.
[00:01:29]  So I don't mean literal sons of Rome itself, but rather the legacy of it.
[00:01:34]  And these, of course, do not start with Rome, but starts with ancient Hellas.
[00:01:39]  And just on a personal note here, I am biased because I have good feelings about Greece ever since I was small.
[00:01:47]  First and foremost, because our father read the Iliad to me and my brother when we were small, so I got that really early on, that sense of epicness from those stories.
[00:01:57]  Also, the Odyssey, of course.
[00:01:59]  And when I was small, I was six years at the time.
[00:02:03]  We went to Crete for a holiday, and everyone was extremely nice, and I liked it really much.
[00:02:09]  So I've always had a personal affinity for Greece as well.
[00:02:14]  But yeah, that was just a personal little anecdote.
[00:02:16]  Later on, of course, I've also respected Greece as the cradle of Western civilization.
[00:02:22]  And it's also something that I'm not unique in talking about being proud sons of Rome or proud sons of Macedon or Seus and Ares.
[00:02:32]  It's something that basically all European powers carried with them into the early modern era, for example.
[00:02:39]  So if you look upon the castle in Old Town of Stockholm, you have ancient Hellenic aesthetics because it's part of a pan-European thing.
[00:02:50]  So this little clip right here of Hercules suckling is from the castle in Stockholm.
[00:02:57]  So you will see this type of things in Copenhagen as well.
[00:03:01]  So the different European nations and cultures have our own culture, of course, so the Swedish culture, for example, but you also have a pan-European culture dating back to Rome and to Greece.
[00:03:13]  And of course, speaking about the Roman gods, they're basically copies of Greek gods just with new names.
[00:03:19]  And I also thought to take this opportunity to talk about this because we have had a new release for Legio Gloria, rocking this Perseus shirt now, which is obviously to encourage you to renounce degeneracy and to stay strong.
[00:03:34]  The other release is the sword of Mars, which is a nod to the Western Roman Empire.
[00:03:42]  It's called sort of Mars sort of Attila.
[00:03:45]  And this is to remind ourselves that currently, in Western Europe at least, we are at where the Western Roman Empire was in their decaying years, so to speak.
[00:03:55]  But it's a motivating thing at least, and it's something that I want to point to Greece and Rome as the spiritual origins of Western civilization.
[00:04:24]  Extremely smooth edit into the video here Another note on Achilles, as I mentioned in a recent video, also I've styled myself to a certain extent upon Achilles.
[00:04:37]  So if you look at my hair, obviously when I was 14 or 13, saw Troy and thought Brad Pitt had a really aesthetic physique and also hair.
[00:04:46]  So that is one reason.
[00:04:48]  And then also in regards to the theme of this video, it's important to point out that if I use Greek aesthetics or Roman terminology and or anything like that, it doesn't mean that I renounce the Viking side of Swedish history, for example.
[00:05:05]  I am the first one to be patriotic for my own, so it's not about that at all.
[00:05:11]  It's about a pan-European legacy.
[00:05:14]  And after all, my holy work here in the Materium, it's about Western civilization, European bioculture, European civilization.
[00:05:22]  So it's a pan-European movement that I am promoting.
[00:05:26]  It's not specifically Scandinavian.
[00:05:29]  So that is an additional motivating factor for me to use this sort of aesthetics, this type of terminology, saying proud sons of Macedon, obviously in respect to Alexander the Great.
[00:05:43]  And also another note which I forgot to mention in the previous place we recorded in is that the Holy Roman Empire or Germany saw itself as a spiritual descendant from the Roman Empire.
[00:05:57]  So you have that as a recurring theme in Europe.
[00:06:02]  So yeah, and this is the t-shirt I was mentioning about the sword of Mars.
[00:06:08]  And I thought to take these pictures here, since we have Ares behind us, or Mars in Roman.
[00:06:14]  And then a last note upon this whole Roman or Greek legacy in the rest of Europe.
[00:06:20]  My name, Marcus, is of course of Roman origins.
[00:06:24]  So yeah, back to the other spot.
[00:06:26]  Boom.
[00:06:27]  So anyway, I hope that was a good explanation of why you see in Spain here a lot of Greek aesthetics or why you see Greek aesthetics in Copenhagen or Stockholm.
[00:06:38]  It's because it's the same lineage that continues on with classical Europe.
[00:06:43]  And also if we're talking about Christianity and paganism, it's not either or.
[00:06:48]  It's first paganism, then Christianity took over.
[00:06:50]  But you see here, again, still the same sort of aesthetics.
[00:06:54]  So neoclassical aesthetics or whatever you want to call it, it's absolutely motivating and glorious at least.
[00:07:00]  So anyway, thank you for watching.