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“Death and suffering,” Tarkovsky said, “are the same whether an individual suffers and dies, or the cycle of history ends and millions suffer and die.” This is so, namely from the point of view of the individual, as well as the demons that feed on the dying.
How can one truly, meaningfully, fruitfully live while knowing that the culture, the civilization, the life-world around them, will end, or already is coming to an end? This question might sound “extremist” (although, indeed, etymologically it is), but the motivation and apperception underpinning it are by all means natural and commonplace. After all, the human being is essentially characterized by finitude, by mortality, which is to say that one of the only absolute and universal certainties facing all humans is the end of their life, death.
I WAS perusing some material by French thinker Henri Bergson (1859–1941) that caused me to consider its political and linguistic ramifications for modern society. It was Bergson who famously argued that consciousness cannot be quantified in the way that one can measure bodies in space. He discovered this during a visit to the cinema during the first years of the twentieth century, when he took an interest in the fact that what you see on the big screen is merely a series of instantaneous snapshots that provide the illusion of movement.
Gradually, work is progressing on a new direction - a general theory of horror. Heidegger contrasts horror (Angst, anxiety) with fear (Furcht, fear). Fear makes us flee, while horror makes us freeze in place. In psychiatry, the distinction between anxiety disorder and fear is somewhat different but complements Heidegger's dualism. Horror arises from within, confronting something undefined and inexpressible. Fear always comes from outside and has - even if it's just a phantasm - a cause, form, and explanation.
“The eternity of myth is embodied in struggle”, was a slogan of epic order, historically used in marches, political demonstrations and later concerts: it, to all intents and purposes, represents a worldview (weltanschauung) strongly inspired by the doctrine of Julius Evola that characterized and traversed - together with the anti-capitalist and corporatist demands for social justice - the metapolitical path of the Third Political Theory (3TP) in Italy, from the beginnings of ordinovism and national avant-gardism to continue in the following decades with Lotta di Popolo, Terza Posizione, Meridiano Zero, Forza Nuova, Casa Pound and various other minor groups of the national-popular constellation, and finally reaching the threshold of the Fourth Political Theory (4TP) with its idea of Imperium with an unscathed spirit and a steadfast soul.
The concept of “pagan” has an Old Testament origin. In Russian, “gentiles” were called peoples. The ancient Jews used the term “am” (עם) to describe themselves, and “goy” (גוי) to describe other nations. Jews = the people, it is one (chosen), and the “languages” of the nations are many. Thus the Jews themselves worshipped one God, and were sure that all other nations (tongues) worshipped many gods.
Anyone who opposes my principles, values, interests, is an adversary. I have an obligation to respond with better ideas and arguments. Whoever prevents me from expressing, disseminating and defending those values, those principles, those interests, is an enemy. Today's enemy is the democrat. There are, in the collective unconscious, certain “divine”, untouchable words, whose equivocal, elastic meanings cannot be opposed under pain of exclusion and penal repression. The noun democracy and the adjective democratic are the totem words - together with progress - of the present.
The pseudoscience of the modern age began with the elimination of three out of Aristotle’s four causes. Only one, causa efficiens, the cause of motion, was retained. As a result, the object lost its three dimensions — the eidetic, the hylistic, and, above all, the entelechial.
In the year and a half since 29-year-old Daria Dugina was killed in a car bombing near Moscow, the question “Who is Daria Dugina?” has not gone away. On the contrary, as the smoke cleared, this question only intensified and broadened.
We will not be able to understand the full depth of the current confrontation without philosophical reflection. Philosophers have always interpreted war as something necessary. Heraclitus speaks of war as the "father of things": πόλεμος πάντων μεν πατήρ εστί, πάντων δε βασιλεύς. War has always constituted the world and space. Without war, without division, the world is impossible.
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