Heidegger & the Landscape Insurgency Against Modern Art From the beginning of formalized artistic practises and artistic traditions in the West, the two main points of muse and refuge for all artists have been the image of the human body and the image of the landscape. Specifically, the landscape, whilst not coming into its own […]
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I dreamt I was alone, wandering the wastes of modern life. Before me stood a dead tree whose branches twisted like bleached bones under an unforgiving sun. From a branch hung a noose; the noose of pessimism. Often, I feel consternation to consider the thousands of my countrymen that have surrendered their lives to that […]
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Vegans are extreme. The sermons on veganism I’ve had the pleasure of hearing either rest on some variation of National Socialism or Communism. The extreme-Right vegans often have some Hindu or Pagan justification, and the hard-Left variety have some new-age ethical justification. Unfortunately, as I knocked on the front door, I knew I was to […]
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Genius often comes to us in pairs. Plato and Aristotle, Jung and Freud, Guénon and Evola; a generation’s thought and voice is often captured by a pair of geniuses. Mark the greats of Western music: Handel and Bach, Haydn and Beethoven, Wagner and Verdi, among countless other pairs. Two relationships that I have observed to […]
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Jung, Peterson & the Uses & Abuses of Chaos Memes in the Current Year Recently, I have been mulling over the idea of memes and their uses as a subversive art form in the modern world after responding to a very good comment on the nature of art from my recent article on Sam Hyde […]
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It is an interesting set of ideas I have spinning off in my head at random as of late. You see, the way I think is I try to grasp a topic or idea, and then let a flutter of others pass through my third eye and then try to construct some narrative out of […]
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PREFACE: The following is an original translation of mine from the Golden Legend (Legenda Aurea). The Golden Legend was one of the most popular books of the Middles Ages; it is a collection of stories about the lives of the saints as well as other events associated with the feasts of the liturgical year compiled by […]
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What a curious state of affairs we live in. To end a millennium of English self-rule is “moderate,” and giving a corrupt Italian government license to be more corrupt is “sensible.” To most in the world, President-Elect Hillary R. Clinton would have been the sensible outcome. It would be moderate for this moderate president to […]
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The local pub, the local factory, and the local football club — the three institutions of the traditional working class in England — all three feel the icy grip of modernity around their necks. All three presented a rite of initiation; from the club to the factory to the pub. A young boy watches his […]
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It is a curious set of phenomena that goes into humanity’s mental and spiritual lives. At the heart of the human experience there seems to lie a precarious conflict between the manifold forces of the soul, from the rational to the very irrational. And in the psychic life of humanity is this very sum of […]
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West Coast Reactionaries 