The Revolution ultimately rejected the old ideals …but because of its negative character it could not provide new ones; it liberated individual elements, gave them an absolute significance, but deprived their activity of its essential foundation and nourishment. For this reason we see that the excessive development of individualism in the contemporary West leads directly to its opposite — a universal depersonalization and vulgarization.Source
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Throne & Altar
This is the content, then, of the Old Right: Throne and Altar, as it is often put, were the unifying factors in social life. The Revolution rejected that basis, but, as a purely negative movement, it had nothing to replace the old ideals. Solovyov explains:
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Stereotypes?
Let’s remember that a stereotype is more or less synonymous with what psychologists call a ’schema’, which is a pattern arising in the mind to make simple, habitual connections. Stereotypes, it is said, are often based on at least something observable. The Left’s stereotypes of raving white racists and other ‘white devils’ are not.
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What the World Needs - Bring Back the Middle Ages, Part II
- Great princes
- Strong Warriors
- God-inspired priests
- Singers with eloquent tongues
- Bright eyed cosmologists
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Spengler Attacks Dostoevsky - It was only a matter of time...
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I am not sure what compels the modern Jew to rehearse the downfall of Europe in such a negative cast of light. This is certainly a part of the truth, but it is always presented as "the full orbed Gospel of Yahweh".
Dante was a profoundly mystical writer who was communicating esoteric truth through art.
This is so far from the fact that I am astonished that Spengler can keep saying it. America was certainly "propositioned" by somebody, and we by and large have gone for it, and continue to repeat it, hoping that this will save our tawdry love affair.
I am not sure what compels the modern Jew to rehearse the downfall of Europe in such a negative cast of light. This is certainly a part of the truth, but it is always presented as "the full orbed Gospel of Yahweh".
One popular comedian argues that it must be dreadful to spend eternity in heaven. No matter how wonderful it might be at first, eventually you're bound to get used to it and end up bored to death. By the same reasoning, one would shrug off the torments of hell over time, and the experience would be the same as heaven. Truth told, Dante's account of the saints contemplating the Godhead in the "Paradiso" section of Dante's Divine Comedy always bored me, without having to wait for too much of eternity to tick by.
Dante was a profoundly mystical writer who was communicating esoteric truth through art.
America's founders also envisioned a new chosen people in a new promised land - Lincoln's "almost-chosen people", and (as Eric Nelson reports in his 2010 book The Hebrew Republic) drew extensively on post-biblical rabbinic sources as well as the Hebrew Scriptures. What distinguishes America from the failed nations of Europe is the absence of ethnicity: because we are founded on a proposition rather than a race, language or common history, America is immune to the tribal idolatry that ruined Europe.
This is so far from the fact that I am astonished that Spengler can keep saying it. America was certainly "propositioned" by somebody, and we by and large have gone for it, and continue to repeat it, hoping that this will save our tawdry love affair.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Back to the Middle Ages, Please
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I would like to note, in addition to the above, that the Middle Ages are defensible from an economic, political, and cultural point of view also, not "merely" the primary spiritual one. All of society functions (if it functions at all) as an analogy of Being - the body exists because of the soul, the soul, because of the spirit, spirit because of angels, angels because of God. Interactions between men exist because deep heaven has communion, correspondences, and co-inherences. Therefore, politics is not neutral or indifferent. The fact that modern men like to wet-dream about the Middle Ages being "Fascist" or "Totalitarian" is utterly beside the point - such a point of view deliberately ignores historical evidence in ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Comprehension (as they say) is deliberately avoided. "Theocracy" is not only desirable, but inevitable (see this on how the modern period gets away with it). Theocracy or Mediocracy. You can choose, and you'll eventually come around to Theocracy, it's just a question of whether you want to "suffer into Truth" or use your Reason.
I would like to note, in addition to the above, that the Middle Ages are defensible from an economic, political, and cultural point of view also, not "merely" the primary spiritual one. All of society functions (if it functions at all) as an analogy of Being - the body exists because of the soul, the soul, because of the spirit, spirit because of angels, angels because of God. Interactions between men exist because deep heaven has communion, correspondences, and co-inherences. Therefore, politics is not neutral or indifferent. The fact that modern men like to wet-dream about the Middle Ages being "Fascist" or "Totalitarian" is utterly beside the point - such a point of view deliberately ignores historical evidence in ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Comprehension (as they say) is deliberately avoided. "Theocracy" is not only desirable, but inevitable (see this on how the modern period gets away with it). Theocracy or Mediocracy. You can choose, and you'll eventually come around to Theocracy, it's just a question of whether you want to "suffer into Truth" or use your Reason.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Dealing the Death Blow to Liberalism?
I must confess to a secret fantasy of writing the "perfect" refutation of secular liberalism. In truth, this is a confession, for there is no refutation of that which is a perfect shadow, for secular liberalism is precisely that, a vain shadow. Notwithstanding this, it has grown more powerful & convincing in its narrative every day, so that "even the elect may be deceived". One is reminded of the Tibetan practice of creating mental phantasms and enduing them with spiritual energy until a demon/god/ghost is created; in the words of Culianu (an apologist for the perfect secular magic), it risks becoming a "sorcerer state" which rules the population through "soft totalitarianism" and the projection of fantastical wishes which cannot be fulfilled. One cannot fight this enemy with the violence of counter-revolution; not only does God warn us against such ("those who live by the sword, die by the sword"), but one cannot fight what one is a part of, and every Protestant Anglo-Saxon still left in America is part and parcel of the New World Order, which came, not with a political mandate from the melancholy gods of Progressivism (who are losing legitimacy by the day, even in their own eyes), but in the abandonment of Tradition and Culture which accompanied the exaltation of Sola Scriptura. To fight this, one has to begin the Long Abandonment, which will take a long, long time, for not only must I disentangle my own thoughts from Protestant rationalism, I must also conserve within myself that which is manly and that which is worth saving. I must fear God, and honor the Once-and-future-King, and I must forever abandon any hope that democracy (despite Walter Russell Meade's attempt to make it look glorious all over again) will do anything but promote the wrack and ruin of those souls which I know and hold dear, in my family, my friends, and those I encounter in the world.
There is more to come, some in the way of how to "see through the illusion" of Progressive Modernism, not by fighting the demon, but by annihilating it in the light of a greater Truth.
We must "see through the illusion, and into the Dream". It is dangerous and dark, and that has the makings of a quest.
There is more to come, some in the way of how to "see through the illusion" of Progressive Modernism, not by fighting the demon, but by annihilating it in the light of a greater Truth.
We must "see through the illusion, and into the Dream". It is dangerous and dark, and that has the makings of a quest.
Monday, January 16, 2012
The Queen of Heaven & the Holy Roman Emperor
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