After an OP discussing this substack by Charles Hugh-Smith: Last Gasp of the Landfill Economy
at the Phora (a private forum) https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/the-death-throes-of-modernity.1984
… I wrote:
The background to my ‘predictions’ thread[1] was a comprehensive statement of what I called the ‘Goodwin-Greer Synthesis’ (in some discussions of this topic I use my patronymic rather than the name of my old blog https://macrobius.blogspot.com)
[1]: https://thephora.net/phoranova/index.php?threads/macrobius-makes-predictions-for-2025-2026.1680/
The ‘writeup’ of the predictions was in fact a popularisation, originally intended for a twitter account which I was obliged to nuke because X wouldn’t stop billing me when I wanted to downgrade from ‘paid’ service, and failed to respond to my messages.
Among the Traditionalists being discussed, in contrast to the Modernists (everyone else), I note the variance of views among Orthodox Christians — notably, Sherrard, who like Father Seraphim Rose, rejects Guenon; Dugin, who is both Orthodox Christian *and* profoundly a follower of Guenon, and myself, who stand with Sherrard on this point, but not to the extent I consider the matter beyond discussion, for reasons that should be evident, namely I am unlike Sherrard and Dugin, a modern Scientist and Nuclear Physicist, as well as a computer technologist.
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