Politics & Power Quote by Francis Parker Yockey

Ignorance is doing a lot of work in Yockey's seemingly neutral line. "The early American" is a deliberate abstraction: not a particular settler, not an Indigenous nation, not a clash of interests, but a cleaned-up type. That vagueness is the point. It sets the stage for a mythic origin story in which history begins at the moment of European arrival, and everyone else becomes scenery.

The phrasing "arrived at a land" quietly smuggles in entitlement. Arrive where? To whom? The sentence avoids the verbs that would force moral accounting - invaded, dispossessed, negotiated, depended, learned. Instead, the newcomer is framed as blank, encountering a blank. "Of which he knew nothing" reads like humility, but it also performs innocence: if he didn't know, then the consequences become misunderstandings rather than choices. That posture is rhetorically useful for a writer like Yockey, whose broader project leaned toward civilizational grand narratives and hard-edged political mythmaking; it invites the reader to see conquest as destiny unfolding under conditions of uncertainty, not as a set of contested actions.

The gendered "he" matters too. It narrows "American" to a particular figure - male, European, agentic - and builds a cultural archetype: the lone initiator of meaning. The subtext is not curiosity but authorization. By stressing what the newcomer lacked (knowledge), the line implies what he gained (a right to define, map, rename). It's a compact piece of ideological carpentry: erase prior knowledge, then claim the authority to produce it.