What Spectre Haunts Western Political Thought?

August 9, 2023

by W.D. James Marx and Engels famously begin The Communist Manifesto (1844) with the provocative invocation: “A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.” To stick with the Marxist-Hegelian terminology, I think this is just one manifestation of a more enduring spectre or ghost or spirit that has haunted us for a very long time. The Organic Radicalism website … More What Spectre Haunts Western Political Thought?

Apex Predator

July 21, 2023

Modern consumer industrial society is the world’s apex predator. It is a Death Machine that devours and tramples all Life wherever it sets foot. The problem is not merely carbon pollution causing temperature increase and climate change, but also things like the destruction of forests, fisheries, poisoning of soils due to monoculture farming, the poisoning … More Apex Predator

Be my twitter?

July 14, 2023

Originally posted on Prof Jem Bendell:
As I have been suspended from Twitter, I’d like to ask your help so that a Q&A on my book can be heard about. I was heartened that over 80 people joined me to discuss “Breaking Together: a freedom-loving response to collapse.” The event was hosted by Katie Carr…

What of Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse is Shared with Wilken’s The Myth of Christian Beginnings?

September 11, 2022

Originally posted on Theophaneia | dispatches from the eighth clime:
Two of Robert Louis Wilken’s wonderful books blessed me a few years ago (The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God and The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity). For another project recently, I’ve sat down to read two earlier works…

The Theory Of A Multipolar World: A Traditionalist Foreign Policy And Antidote To The “New World Order”

May 30, 2022

Originally posted on THE HEARTLAND TRADITIONALIST:
On September 11th 1990, during the ongoing disintegration of the Soviet Union, then US President George Herbert Walker Bush announced the arrival of a “New World Order”. Much ink has been spilt and many-a-video has been made about this phrase by those whose tinfoil hat is fastened around their…

New World Rising

May 29, 2022

The world is changing fast. Old world orders are crumbling and new ones are rising up. If you happen to live within the borders of former or current colonial powers then the narrative that you are being programmed to believe is very far from the truth. In other words, if you live in “the West” … More New World Rising

“Whoever denies the freedom of coming out from the existential state of Gehenna believes in fact in the ultimate victory of evil over at least a part of God’s creatures” — Eclectic Orthodoxy

September 30, 2019

In defending human freedom traditional theology assumes that we are able to reject God ultimately and irreversibly. This assumption is one of the foundations of the doctrine on the actual possibility of eternal damnation and the real existence of hell. But the question arises whether human freedom can indeed persist in an everlasting state of […] … More “Whoever denies the freedom of coming out from the existential state of Gehenna believes in fact in the ultimate victory of evil over at least a part of God’s creatures” — Eclectic Orthodoxy