“A lot of people ask me: ‘Father Moses, how can I increase my manliness to absurd levels?’”
In a YouTube video,[1] a priest is championing a form of virile, unapologetic masculinity.
[1]:
Skinny jeans, crossing your legs, using an iron, shaping your eyebrows, and even eating soup are among the things he derides as too feminine.
(more…)https://twitter.com/PaideumaTV/status/1927274846276223326
Alexander Dugin traces how Donald Trump’s return to power marks a decisive rupture with the global deep state, fracturing the collective West and hastening the rise of a multipolar world as liberal globalism begins to collapse.
With the arrival of Donald Trump and his team in the White House, the entire architecture of international relations began to shift—radically so. One of the most important developments in this new global picture is the accelerated fragmentation of the West. Much has been said and written about it, yet this phenomenon still lacks a thorough geopolitical and ideological analysis.
First and foremost, the split of the West is ideological in nature. Geopolitical aspects are secondary. The point is that Trump and his supporters—who won the U.S. election in the fall of 2024—are radical opponents of liberal globalism. And this is not a passing or partisan issue. It is a serious and principled matter. The current head of the White House bases his entire ideology, policy, and strategy on the central thesis that the left-liberal ideology, which dominated the West (and indeed the world at large) for several decades—especially after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR—has completely exhausted its potential. It failed in its mission of global leadership, undermined the sovereignty of the United States (the primary engine and general staff of globalization), and now must be decisively and irreversibly rejected.
(more…)The Fall and Rise of Peak Oil – Ecosophia
tl;dr is the conclusion:
What we can expect, though, is something far more terrifying to most people than the most lurid disaster a Hollywood screenwriter ever imagined: more of what we’ve already seen. The long, slow, unsteady descent that’s shaped all our lives for the last half century or more? That’s going to continue along the trajectory it’s already following, for the rest of your life, and into the lives of your grandchildren’s grandchildren.
In the light of that longer view, it doesn’t especially matter who’s in the White House, or for that matter who’s in the doghouse. It matters very little more which policies get put in place and which policies get chucked in the dumpster. There are still things that individuals, families, and communities can do to brace themselves for the future ahead, and some of those things are very important—we’ll get to them in future posts. None of these will affect the overall course of this nation or of industrial society as a whole. That train left the station long ago. Listen carefully and you can hear the distant whistle on the wind, fading to silence.
That doesn’t mean the fine details of the future are fixed in place. I predicted, some years ago, that the next energy crisis would arrive sometime around 2022. That didn’t happen, because we got the Covid crisis instead. Many of the same economic and social disruptions that took place following the dramatic spike in petroleum prices in 2008 had close equivalents in 2021 and 2022, and energy usage lurched downward in a very similar manner as air travel, commuting, and many other energy-intensive activities decreased. That bought some time. The Trump administration’s push to remove regulatory barriers to oil and gas drilling may buy a little more, though that will depend on variables that aren’t yet clear, and will have cascading downsides of its own. As a very rough guess, I think it’s possible that we’ll see another energy crisis (or some comparable disruption with similar effects) before 2030, and fairly certain that we’ll get one before 2035.
The fine details will have to be worked out mathematically by those who are adept at such things, the way Colin Campbell and his associates did in the early days of the peak oil scene, back before 2000. Fortunately there are still some active peak oil aggregator sites and blogs; you can find a more or less current list here[1]. I encourage my readers to visit them and start getting familiar with their contents. We’ll be talking more about peak oil later on—after, that is, we talk about some of the other factors that are pushing our civilization down the same well-worn chute. In two weeks we’ll turn to another of those, and talk about what’s been happening to the climate.
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[1]:
https://www.ecosophia.net/blogroll-of-doom/
My comment: analogies between the financial collapse of 2007/2008 and early COVID are underrated. The only decent treatment I know is:
M&B Lectures | Perry G Mehrling (the nitty gritty)
and a short blog:
https://sites.bu.edu/perry/2021/05/19/new-lombard-street-ten-years-on/
Here is a web archive for the last ASPO website (2007ish)… apparently their last conference was in 2012.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080807163431/http://www.aspo-global.org/
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-terminal-rot-in-corporate-america
One of humanity’s most pernicious traits is the ease with which we habituate to conditions over time that we would have rejected out of hand if the transition had been sudden. This is the essence of what I term Anti-Progress: over time, what was solid melts away into thin air, what worked no longer works, but we no longer notice because wretchedness and decay have been normalized, i.e. accepted as “the way things are,” or hyper-normalized: everyone knows things no longer work but we’re unable to change the system, so we play-act that everything’s fine as a means of not going crazy.
Which brings us to the terminal rot in Corporate America, a rot so deep and pervasive that few recall that Corporate America once had some purpose other than increasing profits next quarter to boost “shareholder value.”
The moral rot in Corporate America goes unnoticed in a society in terminal moral decay. Why should corporate fraud, profiteering, deception and extortion attract our attention when self-service is the norm, lobbyists write regulations, legislators tell us we’ll find out what’s in the bill after they pass it into law, tax fraud by the wealthy is accepted practice, and so on in an endless stream of avarice and corruption?
Rest at the link.
Dugin: Trump’s Revolution | Phora Nova
Forward: Trump’s Victory over the Liberal Horror
Introduction
Part1: Decoupling
Part2: Donald Trump’s Conservative Revolution
Review of Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory trilogy | TBC
This thread will (eventually) review all three volumes of Dugin’s 4PT trilogy
– The Fourth Political Theory (v. 1, 2009)
– The Rise of the Fourth Political Theory (v. 2, 2017)
– Politica Aeterna: Political Platonism (v. 3, 2024)
His current work on Trumpism (_The Trump Revolution: A New Order of Great Powers _), and the emerging Multipolar World Order, is very much in progress as are the events defining it. It is thus more collections of recent articles, often of different vintage, than a mature, considered work of political theory.
I will start _in medias res_ with v. 2, because it is both recent and sets up the latest work — and together these works have not been as extensively reviewed and disussed as the 16 year old original publication in the series. At that point, we will be able to come back and review the work.
Here, to get us started, is a comparative chart of the four political theories — the first three are liberalism, Communism, and fascism, with the last including related ideologies as Mussolini or Peronism.
(more…)It’s been nine months now since I set aside the other preoccupations of this blog and launched a project I’d had in mind for many years—a discussion of the political and economic subtext underlying Richard Wagner’s vast operatic cycle The Nibelung’s Ring. All things considered, nine months ago was a propitious time for such a venture, as Donald Trump’s bombastic baritone and Kamala Harris’s fingernails-on-blackboard soprano rang out over a bellowing chorus of media pundits and election officials, while billionaires George Soros and Elon Musk frantically conducted competing orchestras of braying donkeys and trumpeting elephants. The only possible word for the cacophony that resulted is “Wagnerian.”
*Rest at the Link*
The Return of the Eurasian Macro-State – by Alexander Dugin
Alexander Dugin argues that the restoration of a civilizational bloc in the post-Soviet and post-imperial space is inevitable.
When it became clear that the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)1 could not fulfill the task of integration, the Eurasian Union2 was created. But it was founded solely on economic ideas. And since integration between countries cannot be achieved on economic grounds alone, this idea stalled once again. Only in the creation of the Russia-Belarus Union State3 have certain successes been achieved.
Now we have reached a moment where a global restructuring of the entire world has begun. In these conditions, only great powers capable of integration will be able to preserve their sovereignty. Small states are already being forced to choose which great power to align with. If they fail to make this choice, they face the grim prospect of being torn apart under the pressure of these great powers, which are now becoming the primary and sole actors in global politics.
This is the multipolar world, which we may have imagined quite differently. Yes, it is rather strict, with very rigid rules, and if you do not possess fundamental economic, political, military, strategic, resource, and territorial sovereignty, your fate is grim. One must choose a bloc to join. And the only reasonable path for the majority of post-Soviet states is to become part of a Eurasian macro-state.
This is being discussed more and more frequently at various levels. Of course, many small states still cling to ambitious illusions of building something sovereign and equidistant from both Russia and the West. But these illusions are gradually fading, especially against the backdrop of our steady progress toward final victory in Ukraine.
The creation of a macro-state, which is to emerge in the space once occupied by the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire, is a historically inevitable process. It is the only way to preserve sovereignty for all participants in this new cycle of state-building. This will make it possible to resolve not only the fate of our “new” territories, not only that of Ukraine, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia, but also that of Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, and even Azerbaijan. All of these peoples will find a place within the macro-state — one in which they will not lose but rather strengthen their sovereignty.
(more…)The American Conservative Revolution | Page 3 | Phora Nova
Dear Mac,
The only way, in retrospect, that i can be alright with the American Revolution is that it was a seperation from Guelph rebels who had themselves turned against the Roman Imperium.
Anyway, happy Patriot’s day.
Remember that the entire hemisphere celebrates, with Russia, the outcome of 1812. The French Revolution had its good and bad points — as a peasant revolt by a Roman substrate population against their Frankish overlords, it makes a certain amount of sense. But then we have Napoleon… who uprooted Roman Civil Law (leaving only Scotland and Lousiana as relics of it), and of course invaded the Ukraine
I think what the Founding Fathers proved both by their Wisdom and their Folly is that Heretics cannot form a stable government in the long run, because they do not have a clear sense of what the ‘Salus Populi’ even is, because of a failed understanding of Anthropology and Ecology, etc.
Only Holy Orthodoxy can save this Hemisphere and Country, is my current understanding. A bit sharpened now by events of 2020-2025.
When Pascha is over, I will sharpen my points about Palamism implicit in my mention of Sherrard on this thread, but on which I have yet to expand: https://thephora.net/phoranova/inde…lism-in-orthodox-christianity-and-islam.1941/
