Scientism and technocracy constitute the water in which we swim, so much so that the possibility of framing human existence in any other way hardly comes to mind. Proof of this can be found in the fact that it is hardly imaginable to devise other ways than lockdowns and mass vaccinations to deal with the circumstance of an epidemic.
Read MoreThe contrast between the high level of thought reached by Kennedy during his American University speech and the banalities and lies so regularly uttered by American presidents ever since could hardly be more dramatic. What has happened? How did the quality of American thought and leadership decline in such precipitous fashion?
Read MoreSvetlana Lourié was a pronounced idealist, and not only in the sense of her ardent devotion to the Orthodox Christian faith, but also in terms of her philosophy of history. For her, the most important thing in an ethnos – and in general, the most important thing in any socio-historical community -- was its religious component …
Read More… Tsymburski’s vision differs markedly from that of both Dugin and Solovyov. If Dugin wishes to return, in a certain respect, to the norm that endured from the reign of Peter I until 1991 (namely, that of an empire within Eurasia), and Solovyov wanted to reunify the Roman and Byzantine halves of Christendom, Tsymburski’s vision, as outlined in a volume called Island Russia, describes as its ideal a Russia within the far narrower borders that preceded Peter I, and that, as it happens, closely match Russia’s present-day outlines.
Read More… even just cars and highways can destroy a civilization. What is your sense of how to tell which technologies are destructive, and which not? More importantly, how would you define technological civilization, what it is?
Read MoreThough there has never been a human culture that is anything but flawed, all lasting human cultures in history have been rooted. That is to say, they have been tied down by, and to, things more solid, timeless and lasting than the day-to-day processes of their functioning …
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