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"ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν." [Heraclitus]

"All that exists is just and unjust and equally justified in both." [Aeschylus, Prometheus]

"The history of everyday is constituted by our habits. ... How have you lived today?" [N.]

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PostSubject: Re: This is Europa This is Europa EmptyMon Dec 03, 2012 11:19 pm

This YouTuber has been making some superb videos on Europa. Artful and emotional. Superb propaganda (but of course he's preaching to the choir in my case).

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Someone should invite him here.

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Cold Weasel wrote:
This YouTuber has been making some superb videos on Europa. Artful and emotional. Superb propaganda (but of course he's preaching to the choir in my case).

This isn't propaganda. Spengler applied a scientific method to project the past into the future, by comparing different civilizations of the past, who all went through the same stages of development and decline, as you can look up in his monumtental book: "The Decline of the West" (original: Der Untergang des Abendlandes) in the first 100 pages or so and the charts in the book, with the present one of the West (The Abendland).

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1800-2000: The reign of money ("Democracy"). [...]

2000-2200 The development of Caesarism. Victory of the politics of violence over money. Increasing primitive character of the political forms. Inner decay of the Nations into a formless population. The unification of them in an Empire (Imperium) of gradually again primitive-despotic character.

2200-2400 Maturing of a final form: Private- and Familypolitics of single lords. The world as prey[...]


So you see: no abrupt sudden shift and also the final phase won't be reached for another 200 years. But I already notice some of the changes towards Caesarism.
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PostSubject: Re: This is Europa This is Europa EmptyTue Dec 04, 2012 7:51 pm

Satyr wrote:
Someone should invite him here.

I volunteer. Very Happy

Laconian wrote:
This isn't propaganda. Spengler applied a scientific method to project the past into the future, by comparing different civilizations of the past, who all went through the same stages of development and decline, as you can look up in his monumtental book: "The Decline of the West" (original: Der Untergang des Abendlandes) in the first 100 pages or so and the charts in the book, with the present one of the West (The Abendland).

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1800-2000: The reign of money ("Democracy"). [...]

2000-2200 The development of Caesarism. Victory of the politics of violence over money. Increasing primitive character of the political forms. Inner decay of the Nations into a formless population. The unification of them in an Empire (Imperium) of gradually again primitive-despotic character.

2200-2400 Maturing of a final form: Private- and Familypolitics of single lords. The world as prey[...]


So you see: no abrupt sudden shift and also the final phase won't be reached for another 200 years. But I already notice some of the changes towards Caesarism.

Laconian, if you insist on having this imaginary dispute with me why don't you continue it in the thread where you first contrived it so I can ignore it there?
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I volunteer.

Princess, do you just volunteer or did you actually do it?
Be decisive. You're not in the girls scouts anymore.
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PostSubject: Re: This is Europa This is Europa EmptyWed Dec 05, 2012 10:59 pm

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"ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν." [Heraclitus]

"All that exists is just and unjust and equally justified in both." [Aeschylus, Prometheus]

"The history of everyday is constituted by our habits. ... How have you lived today?" [N.]

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PostSubject: Re: This is Europa This is Europa EmptySat Apr 20, 2013 5:11 pm

"In the 1920s and ’30s, Robinson Jeffers was one of America’s most esteemed and critically acclaimed poets. However, in 1948, his public and critical reputation entered a steep and irreversible decline upon the publication of The Double Axe and Other Poems (New York: Random House, 1948), which contains a number of poems about the Second World War and its aftermath that were strongly critical of the Allies and clearly sympathetic to the defeated Axis powers. Jeffers’ publisher Random House insisted that ten poems be dropped from the collection and even published a political disclaimer in the front of the book.

“Tragedy Has Obligations” is one of the suppressed poems, and it is easy to see why. Written in June of 1943, it is addressed to Adolf Hitler, who is portrayed as a tragic hero who “meant well and made woe,” and whose mistakes — failing to press his advantage against England, then invading Russia — had set his inevitable fall in motion. Jeffers predicts Hitler’s suicide and recommends that he die with dignity and do his best to take his enemies down with him.

I highly recommend The Double Axe, but be sure to get the edition that includes the suppressed poems. Jeffers is a great poet, regardless of his subject matter, but when he grapples with the greatest tragedy of our time, the full measure of his genius is displayed. These poems, moreover, are not “merely political,” for Jeffers’ politics is part of his larger philosophy of “inhumanism,” i.e., his rejection of anthropocentrism in favor of a life- and cosmos-centered outlook, which provides a foundation for his politics as well as a “deep ecology” — a viewpoint that closely parallels another book written in the bitter aftermath of the Second World War: Savitri Devi’s Impeachment of Man.

June, 1943

If you had thrown a little more boldly in the flood of fortune
You’d have had England; or in the slackening
Less boldly, you’d not have sunk your right hand in Russia: these
Are the two ghosts; they stand by the bed
And make a man tear his flesh. The rest is fatal; each day
A new disaster, and at last Vae Victis,
It means Weh den Gesiegten. This is the essence of tragedy,
To have meant well and made woe, and watch Fate,
All stone, approach.

But tragedy has obligations. A choice
Comes to each man when his days darken:
To be tragic or to be pitiful. You must do nothing pitiful.
Suicide, which no doubt you contemplate,
Is not enough, suicide is for bankrupt shopkeepers.
You should be Samson, blind Samson, crushing
Al his foes, that’s Europe, America, half Asia, in his fall.
But you are not able; and the tale is Hebrew.

I have seen a wing-broken hawk, standing in her own dirt,
Helpless, a caged captive, with cold
Indomitable eyes of disdain, meet death. There was nothing pitiful,
No degradation, but eternal defiance.
Or a sheepfold harrier, a grim, grey wolf, hunted all day,
Wounded, struck down at the turn of twilight,
How grandly he dies. The pack whines in a ring and not closes,
The head lifts, the great fangs grin, the hunters
Admire their victim. That is how you should end — for the prophesied
You would die like a dog — like a wolf, war-loser."

Tragedy has Obligations

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"All that exists is just and unjust and equally justified in both." [Aeschylus, Prometheus]

"The history of everyday is constituted by our habits. ... How have you lived today?" [N.]

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Mike Walker talking about his play The Return of Odysseus a performance he created to reflect modern times. Odysseus's son is shamed by the suitors of his mother - a "cuck" in the country ruled by his own father. Then, Odysseus returns with judgment.

I haven't seen the performance, here is a review of his work. Here is an excerpt from his work that caught the reviewer's eye:

The Return of Odysseus wrote:
There is not one palace which is plundered, but the entire land. Ithaca is growing sick while the tapeworms of the market grow fat on a land for which they never fought, which they never tend and never loved. The homeland has almost as many immigrants as natives. No one respects the Ithacan customs. The children are hardened and use the lowest language of the streets. The public coffers are plundered by parasites and aliens. Money is made by distortion and usury. Honest work is badly paid. The richest men are middlemen and speculators. The labourer is poor. (p. 128)
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Against the Europe of Nations

Jean Thiriart wrote:
We do not wish a Europe of nations dear to the ‘balkanisers’ of the extreme right, a sort of Harlequin cloak over cowardly clothes.

This Europe of nations is nothing but the momentary and precarious sum of rancours and weaknesses. We all know that the sum of weaknesses equals zero or virtually zero. The petty narrow nationalisms cancel one another, as algebraic values of opposite signs cancel each other. The petty ‘suppressed’ nationalisms derive in general a semblance of vigour only from the hatred of a neighbour or the memory of it. This is nonsense; it is a formal contradiction to hope to derive a positive force from ossified and distrustful particularisms.

For us the fatherland is a FUTURE in common much more than a past in common. The customary fatherland: Belgium, the fatherland of memory: Germany of 1964, the fatherland of one’s heritage: France, can suit only fatigued people possessed of conservative wishful thinking.

We wish for a fatherland of expansion and not a fatherland of veneration. Such will be our European fatherland.

Consequently, we condemn the narrow and mean nationalisms that maintain the divisions between citizens of the European nation. These nationalisms should be sublimated and serve as a springboard for the greater and finer conception of the great European nation. The love of the fatherland should grow with the love for Europe.

Faced with the Russian and American nationalisms one should create a European nationalism.

We despise the paralytic patriotism of cemeteries, the vain patriotism of the wearers of decorations and trinkets. We do not count merely on the spirits of Joan of Arc — or of Bismarck — to save Europe. We count solely on ourselves to do that. But we are aware of the value of tradition enriched by a lucid will directed towards the future.

Reduced to the state of the survival of the past, the fatherland is nothing more than a trifle. The only true fatherland is a fatherland that is in the process of becoming.

Europe should be unitarian: federal Europe or a Europe of nations are conceptions whose inaccuracy and complication hardly hide the lack of sincerity or senility of those who defend them and disguise their ulterior motive and their schemes. However, Europe could pass through a very brief intermediary stage of federalism. Federal Europe would be the transition between the Europe of nations — which is the present pseudo-Europe — and the unitarian Europe, which will be the Europe of Europeans, that is to say, the Europe of all the people of Europe.

Our Nationalism: a Community of Destiny
When men, peoples, have arrived at almost identical levels of maturity, when a culture is common to them, when the geography makes immediate neighbours of them and the same dangers and the same enemies threaten them, the conditions are given to create a nation.

For us, nationalism is the identity of destiny wished for in light of a great common plan.

We are opposed to the DIVIDERS constituted by the nationalists of fragmentation, the provincialists, the secessionists. The Breton, Wallon, Basque or Sicilian autonomists are at most, from the perspective of history, colourful and amusing folklorists. No real political thought animates them; they are childish romantics. These secessionists go against the human adventure. Their explanations barely hide inferiority complexes or, at best, a total lack of culture.

At present, in France, people who resist or oppose the unification of Europe belong exactly to the same type of men as those who refused the creative centralising work of the Capetians.1

We are likewise opposed to the CONSERVATIVES, to the adherents of the ossified nationalism, which exhausts its argument in memories. They hold on to the nation of heritage. We do not refuse heritage; we wish to make it greater. The French, German or Italian nationalists wish to stop the march of time. It is hardly less contemptible than the senseless intention of those who wish to distort its course by calling it, wrongly, ‘historical sense’.

Other forms of nationalism not less harmful to our European design are contemptible: for example, those based on race. Europe is composed of several races — of which there are three big groups, that is, the Slav, the Germanic and the Latin-Mediterranean. This existence in the heart of Europe of a diversity of races causes us to formally and irrevocably condemn racism as a political argument. Racism within Europe should remain the affair of ethnologists.

Nationalism based on language is hardly worth more. Besides, homogeneity of race and language has always followed political unification. Blood and language alone have never engendered a great national state. It is, on the contrary, the national state which has levelled the original differences. The ‘Frenchification’ of the French provinces under the centralising power of the kings and the ‘Castilinisation’ of Spain of the 11th to 16th centuries provide eloquent examples of that. Our nationalism is therefore neither the conservation of the past nor a secession, nor racism.

Our nationalism is a future in common, and those that it will unify will be welded one to the other by an identity of historical destiny.

Unitarian Europe will be a nation realised through a revolutionary elite.

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