American Alchemy: “Dante placed betrayers in the lowest circle of Hell, yet ours proudly enjoy their time alongside Satan himself chastising the rest of us. ”
Circe, Odysseus, and the Disclosure of Hermes: “Without a knowledge of natures – and especially, as Socrates would emphasize, the nature of man – man can be enchanted, politically and otherwise. Man can then easily fall back into shamanism, although in modernity it tends to be concealed under the name of ‘progress’. And if a society should expressly deny the reality of natures, who can know the transformations of the human to which it might become vulnerable?”
Everything Is — Still — Fine: “To harken back to a pop-culture phenomenon from my youth, I look at the array of forces on each side and see ‘Bambi Meets Godzilla.’ It’s not just that the ruling class would easily win such a confrontation. They’ve already won. They’ve captured everything, run everything, and get their way on everything. The New York Times’s 9.7 million subscribers are, in aggregate, the richest, most highly-credentialed, most powerful, and most influential people in the world. Yet they really do see themselves as a besieged underdog.”
There is No Winning the Culture War: “It’s widely believed that the Left is ‘winning’ because they’re overrepresented at the top of many prestigious institutions. But the Left is not winning. They are climbing to the top of a sinking ship faster than right-wingers, but that’s hardly ‘winning.’ Let them have the utterly corrupted and technologically obsolesced institutions! Let them have everything in the city of man, from the universities down to the last halloween candy bowl! They will end up with nothing at all, for a race to the bottom can only end in Hell—though at any time, every person is completely welcome to rejoin the straight and narrow, where there will always be bearers of civilization.”
The Universal: “Nobody has to consent. Nobody has to even know. It happens anyway. The great mind is being built. The world is being readied. Something is coming.”