America’s Mugshot: “…the American dream has been stolen from us, and it is now on trial.”
A Theory of the Game: “…a system that has been hollowed out by a string of cascading failures runs into one more crisis than it can tolerate, and implodes under the weight of its own absurdities. We are much closer to such scenes in North America and Western Europe right now than I think most people realize.”
Inis Cealtra: “If you are Orthodox — or Catholic — you know that the saints still live. They are still in the places they once made thrum with the word of God. I am English, and I live in Ireland. There is something in the early Christian landscape here that wants to show itself to us again. Something that offers us an alternative to the world of the Machine. Something is calling us back home.”
Nietzscheans of the Right: “Nietzsche’s style is truly extraordinary: this quicksilver, lethal intelligence, which dissolves every obstacle in its path. But to achieve it cost Nietzsche enormously. He spent most of his life wandering alone with his shadow, unknown and misunderstood until his final descent into madness, at which point his fame ascended meteorically. Nietzsche himself wrote: ‘There was one Christian and he died on the Cross.’ This dictum also holds true for Nietzsche himself. We can only salute him, but perhaps what we need are not ‘Nietzscheans,’ but men with the resolution and courage ‘to become who they are.'”
Salvation by the Beam: “Today everything is pathologized. Everything is an illness. The average man on the street today is likely to believe, deep down, that people who do bad things are just sick in the head, or at the very least victims of circumstance. People can’t simply be murderers anymore. No. They have to be psychopaths. They have to have an illness. Similarly, nobody’s a ‘vagrant’ anymore, they’re ‘unhoused,’ they’re people that have been failed by ‘The System.’ Or you know, people can’t simply be thieves wanting free stuff, theft has to be “the voice of the voiceless” or some other such thing, fighting back against ‘systemic injustice.’ Okay.”
The Quest for the Vagus Nerve: “In the old Vedas texts this is the crown chakra, the Sahasrara Brahmarandhra. They already knew how you could attain deep peace, deep catharsis.”
