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James J. O'Meara's avatar

"Complaining about Cromwell or Hobbes now is like giving a lecture about cutting carbs and controlling one’s blood sugar to someone who is bleeding out on the sidewalk from a knife wound."

There's a long "tradition" on the Right of that kind of thing. The problem is "Gnosticism" (Vogelin) or nominalism (Weaver) or some other long ago intellectual debate, which makes the speaker sound like an "intellectual" while promoting his favorite hobby horse and essentially counseling doing nothing. Confederacy of Dunces should have shamed people out of this kind of thing; Ignatius Reilly, who goes to war against the modern world because of its lack of "theology and geometry" , lives on at places like Arktos, churning out volumes of word salad from Dugin and Evola. If we have to wait for the right interpretation of Heidegger's late work before learning what to do, we're doomed.

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Phoenix's avatar

That Inspector Norf sketch illustrates the truth in the Biblical statement about casting pearls before swine.

Who made Dugin a modern sage or icon? He seems to be invoked in order to enable modern Americans to feel superior to bearded-weirdy Russians speaking gibberish.

The RWA guys had a recent long chat with Larry Johnson, who regaled his Russian audience with tales of the Completely Incompetent Agency. Amity between the two nations was reinforced by their mutual contempt for that extinct species, the British.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NbMrIzT8J0

Of course no one was so impolite as to mention the current Masters of the Universe.

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