Anons and Automatons
Witness the rise of the NPC: we take a look at a fresh example of how a terminally-online generation is being fed to the all-monetizing void of the Internet.
Witness the rise of the NPC: we take a look at a fresh example of how a terminally-online generation is being fed to the all-monetizing void of the Internet.
From the descriptions of Greek philosophy found in the research of both Pierre Hadot and Anton Dumitriu, we are confronted with a startling emphasis on the ‘practical,’ that is, the ‘experimental’ dimension of philosophy.
The powers-that-be dislike inherited forms, like the feminine woman and the masculine man, whose roles and relationships escape their control.
FROM THE SUMMER 2023 PRINT EDITION: We need to educate people to understand that the culture they have is a product of human history and choice, and to see that, beyond gratitude to their ancestors, they also have obligations to those who will come after them.
Christ alone can rescue His Church, but we have ousted Him in a diabolic effort to divorce Bride from Bridegroom. Perhaps the sacred magic of Hermes Trismegistus is what’s needed to banish the black magic of Enlightened man.
The bullfight will long continue to fascinate, as well as shock, upset, and mesmerise. Hemingway wrote, “Anything capable of arousing passion in its favour will surely raise as much passion against it.”
The spirit of modern Western man is like a faulty pressure cooker that’s going to explode, and every attempt to fix the problem pushes him further into false and malignant solutions of individualism, statism, transhumanism, and all the deceitful promises of the technological age.
“Some have questioned the importance of remembering our painful history. To those who believe that the youth should not be burdened with the past, let me say: a nation without memory is like a ship without a rudder and compass.”
It seems to me that the paradigm of rationalism—with all its chaotic relationships, ugly architecture, shallow sentimentalism, fetishization of abstractions, legal positivism, and blindness to persons—to which the institutional Church has conceded so much moral territory, must be overcome if we are to recover the primacy of the mystical in the life of the Church.
The advent of scientific ‘progress’ and the marginalisation of the farming world have given the illusion that we can do without them. Climate change has put things back in their proper place, and we are seeing the return of rogations and processions in our countries.
Few contemporary Marxists, and even fewer Catholic theologians, have delved deeply into any likenesses in their worldviews on a theoretical level.
Acceptable forms of sacrifice may change throughout time, but its essence remains. It is based on the deeply rooted sense of something more important than oneself: a deity, a family, a nation, or the entire world.
Could the women’s desire to visit The Gambia have anything to do with the fact that many young men, desperate and unable to find decent employment, turn to sex tourism to make a living?
The greenness of youth used to be viewed as a character defect, to be ironed out over time, on the basic human principle that, with experience, comes wisdom.
It was only when Delingpole brought up God and his recent turn to Christianity that Oliver didn’t seem to quite know what to do with himself. Oliver had assumed that he was attending an event for unhinged conspiracy theorists, but it turned out to be much weirder than that: the place was packed with Christians.
Burke failed the test of his era’s truly conservative, and therefore, truly radical, struggle: saving and updating the commons as locus of virtuous sociability and preservation of identity.
Beijing knows that it will pay little, if any, price for its meddling. Until this changes, and until countries like the United States and Germany combat this more effectively, then we should expect Chinese influence to grow, not diminish.
There is far more underpinning a healthy society than mere positive law––and the judge holds the best of all governing positions to act as an intermediary between the Form of the Good and the execution of law.
The incredible story of the reliquary of St. Maurus makes The Raiders of the Lost Ark seem like a sequel to The Sound of Music. It is a story of biblical proportions.
There is a lot of really cheap thought flying around today in academic, media, and government industries dealing with political history. One of the chief tenets is that of the intrinsically evil nature of European colonization of much of the world.
The problem, of course, is that at the end of the day presidents are not monarchs. Such figures cannot serve as “living flags,” let alone constitutional guarantors.
Engels invites us to free ourselves from the belief that the “nation state offers the answer to all our existential and identity problems” and proposed a “pan-European conservative front.”
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