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Beyond Resentment: On Imperial and Indigenous Return

Carlos Perona Calvete January 26, 2022

Another use of the imperial past is possible: one that does not collapse empire into nationality, one that assumes overlapping rather than contradicting spheres.

Double Meanings

Carlos Perona Calvete January 24, 2022

In politics, a term can have multiple meanings, to the point that, through rhetoric and semantic confusion, people can be convinced to assiduously pursue their own disempowerment.

Empty Villages, Open Fields: How the Plight of Rural Spain is Opening the Political Landscape

Carlos Perona Calvete January 20, 2022

When a myriad of local voices make the same complaint, we are in the presence of a genuine (as opposed to media generated) universal.

On the Anniversary of the Taking of Granada

Carlos Perona Calvete January 17, 2022

This year, celebrations of the taking of Granada have been repudiated by the establishment left, including a platform by the name of Granada Abierta, together with Podemos, who described them as an ode to cruelty and genocide. In contrast, VOX has called for the 2nd of January to be declared a national holiday.

Saviors and Savages: Herbert’s Dune and the Modern Predicament

Carlos Perona Calvete January 16, 2022

Today, we might find Dune’s imagery allegorical. The world, or the public sphere, has in many respects been rendered inhospitable. The once baroque diversity of cultural forms has been drastically reduced. A desertscape has replaced the lush filigree characteristic of more traditional societies.

Conservatism and the Commons

Carlos Perona Calvete January 13, 2022

One can pour money into a village, but if there are simply no businesses on which to spend it, those who receive that money will quickly use it to buy goods and services at a nearby city. Similarly, politics can promote values, but if we lack the communal context in which to exercise these and in which these might be passed on, nothing will come of it. Like rain on concrete, it may get the ground wet, but nothing will grow.

Tales of Twelve Days, a Christmas Retrospective

Carlos Perona Calvete January 11, 2022

The Twelvetide is an open gate to benevolent magic, to mages and faeries, a time in which we may recognize what is exalted, as the wise men did, by exchanging gifts and thereby seeing exaltation in each other.

Doth not Wisdom Cry?: Thoughts on Martin’s Sophia in Exile

Carlos Perona Calvete January 8, 2022

It is no wonder that an un-Sophianic culture would promote enmity between men and woman, viewing history as a protracted conflict of the genders and marriage as a procrustean bed, with procreation contradictorily thought of both as unnecessary burden and selfish environmentally-harmful indulgence.

Escaping the Triangle: Rene Girard and the Professional Managerial Class

Carlos Perona Calvete January 6, 2022

The strategy of the super-woke failson anticipates resistance by using terms and premises that the establishment cannot rebuff without rebuffing its own basis. He acts as real-world, unpaid HR department officer. This is a means for proving his ambition and ability to police discourse, that is, his managerial competence. At bare minimum, this provides an escape valve for the frustrated failson to take his anger out on culturally deprivileged groups (‘hicks,’ ‘deplorables’) while reinforcing hegemonic discourse.

The Open Society and its Demons

Carlos Perona Calvete January 5, 2022

We should be open to receiving wholeness and beauty, open to the transcendent as it manifests in the bizarre fact of harmony, the startling presence of relationship. In this way we may manifest our oikos in all its coherence, its unity, and avoid developing the kind of resentment that would have us go about compulsively deconstructing our neighbor’s identity.

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Beyond Resentment: On Imperial and Indigenous Return

Double Meanings

Empty Villages, Open Fields: How the Plight of Rural Spain is Opening the Political Landscape

On the Anniversary of the Taking of Granada

Saviors and Savages: Herbert’s Dune and the Modern Predicament

Conservatism and the Commons

Tales of Twelve Days, a Christmas Retrospective

Doth not Wisdom Cry?: Thoughts on Martin’s Sophia in Exile

Escaping the Triangle: Rene Girard and the Professional Managerial Class

The Open Society and its Demons

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