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November 30, 2014
“The Simulacran Republic” (From the Archives of Joe Baegant)
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The hologram ripples with the cry of a thrush
“It’s a world of appearances … packaged to the showroom specifications of a sit-com. She asks her hairdresser for ‘tinted highlights’ he mumbles something about going to the gym. He feels he should do something that requires him to clutch a bottle of mineral water and wipe his brow with the firm conviction that he’s accomplished something more than providing the illusion that his presence in his own life is necessary. They believe in nothing as fervently as their own goodness. When she’s asleep, he absently gazes at porn sites, before he checks out his stock portfolio online.”
– Writer and social critic Jennifer Matsui
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November 17, 2014
���A Sow���s Ear: Cognitive Dissonant(s)
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Did you ever wonder why Russia is such an intriguing place��� that ���riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma���.�� Let���s forget about Ukraine and ���Porky��� Poroshenko for the moment, and just focus on its prime sponsor and dance partner over the last few centuries ��� the Big Bear.
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…A Sow’s Ear: Cognitive Dissonant(s)
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Did you ever wonder why Russia is such an intriguing place… that ‘riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’. Let’s forget about Ukraine and ‘Porky’ Poroshenko for the moment, and just focus on its prime sponsor and dance partner over the last few centuries — the Big Bear.
Filed under: American Dream, Anarchy, capitalism, collapse, cultural crisis, democracy, freedom, geopolitics, global collapse, Poroshenko, Ukraine Tagged: capitalism, Colonialism, Corporate State, Earth, freedom, geopolitics, human nature, Reality, Russia, Siberia
November 13, 2014
Chasing the West: Caught In the Spider���s Web!
These are interesting times. Are they not? The world continues on its collision course with both human history and geologic destiny, while the “only indispensable country” debates with itself how to ���flush��� the remainder of humanity for which it no longer has any need.
Filed under: American Dream, Anarchy, capitalism, civilization, collapse, cultural crisis, democracy, freedom, geopolitics, global collapse Tagged: capitalism, collapse, conspiracy, Corporate State, Empire, freedom, geopolitics, human nature, Russia, Siberia, Ukraine
Chasing the West: Caught In the Spider’s Web!
These are interesting times. Are they not? The world continues on its collision course with both human history and geologic destiny, while the “only indispensable country” debates with itself how to “flush” the remainder of humanity for which it no longer has any need.
Filed under: American Dream, Anarchy, capitalism, civilization, collapse, cultural crisis, democracy, freedom, geopolitics, global collapse Tagged: capitalism, collapse, conspiracy, Corporate State, Empire, freedom, geopolitics, human nature, Russia, Siberia, Ukraine
October 25, 2014
Dread and The Terror of History
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In the current twilight of apocalyptic global affairs, Kafkaesque geopolitical mayhem, and catastrophic climate-change, perhaps it is relevant to take a break from the competition, and reflect briefly on the terror of historical consciousness and the real dread of history through which we are living.
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August 27, 2014
The Soul of the Subject: A View of Russia���s Rush to Modernity
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���The Russian Soul is a dark place.��� Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
���To be modern is to have two qualities: reason and will.��� So says Aleksandr Dugin, contemporary Russian philosopher and sociologist at Moscow State University, speaking about Post-modernity in Western Society.
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The Soul of the Subject: A View of Russia’s Rush to Modernity
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“The Russian Soul is a dark place.” Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
“To be modern is to have two qualities: reason and will.” So says Aleksandr Dugin, contemporary Russian philosopher and sociologist at Moscow State University, speaking about Post-modernity in Western Society.
Filed under: Agriculture, body-subject, capitalism, civilization, commodification, Corporate State, cultural crisis, Curriculum of the West, Dostoyevsky, earth, earthly-sensuous, feral, Heidegger, human nature, language, metaphysics, nature, phenomenology, primal humanity, progress, religion, Russia, Siberia, social contract, soul Tagged: capitalism, civilization, collapse, Dugin, Earth, human nature, Nature, phenomenology, primitive, Reality, religion, Russia, Siberia, Soul
August 24, 2014
Dugin, Heidegger, and the Politics of Openness
There is quite a bit of commotion these days over the state of the world, including the state of our State. We are witness to dramatic shifts in geopolitics, as well as social and economic relations among peoples, as trailing indicators of shrinking resources in a heating planet. We see more ‘terrorism
Filed under: 9/11, Africa, Agriculture, American Dream, American Exceptionalism, Aristotle, Body-politic, body-subject, capitalism, Christianity, civilization, collapse, commodification, Corporate State, cultural crisis, Curriculum of the West, democracy, earthly-sensuous, fascism, feral, freedom, genocide, geopolitics, global collapse, Heidegger, human nature, Islam, nature, Nazis, Plato, primal humanity, private property, privatization, progress, propaganda, Putin, rationality, Riots, Russia, sharing, social contract, soul, Spectacle, State, terrorism, trust Tagged: Africa, Aristotle, capitalism, Christianity, civilization, collapse, conspiracy, Corporate State, Dugin, Earth, Empire, Euroasianism, fundamentalism, geopolitics, phenomenology, Protest, Russia, syllogism, terrorism
August 22, 2014
Dusha: The Russian Soul and the Collapse of the West (Redux)
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[In light of the incipient instantiation of a new cold war between the USA and Russia, I felt it important to re-post this slightly revised article that I wrote almost three years ago. It's message is more relevant now than ever before. kC]
The earliest stirrings of modern industrial society may be traced back approximately six thousand years ago to emergence of the first cities, implementation of plow agriculture, and storage of food surpluses in the ancient Near East.
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