Anti-Logos / Anti-God / Anti-Christ should be used in the vernacular more to describe this kinda of rebellious behavior against Metaphysical Reality. This describes anarchic behavior, rioting, deliberately making ugly art as a critic of Creation, preaching 2+2=5, etc.

I see you all struggle with the nomenclature since your operating under the erroneous Enlightenment conclusion in modernity that God is Dead. Assume God is alive and living and these people are effectively telling Him he’s wrong about how He created this place and what should be and how.

Also Hristos Voskrese.
Today is the Real Pascha.

Salient points. Especially on the lack of Essence vs the Nietzschean Existential dialectic that emerges around pointless Will-to-Power battles over arbitrary made up Leftist “values”.
This rarely gets discussed on a metapolitical level.

It’s a Metaphysical War.
It’s a war against imposed Nihilism.

@Laurent Guyénot

Thank you for writing this article.
It’s fascinating to see the millennial propagandization within Western historiography against the Byzantine Empire; even to this day it deliberately receives little to no attention from historians. Through our Western history courses, we were endlessly regaled about pagan Rome and the HRE, but the Eastern Roman Empire was a mere passing note despite reigning for 1000 years. We hear about the Dark Ages of Europe but never about the concurrent Golden Age of Byzantium.
I believe the West could value greatly from understanding this missing aspect of OUR history. Looking toward the Russian system of Byzantine Symphonia is a good start and something we can learn from. The Western secular notion of ‘Separation of Church and State’ (a Luciferian inversion of Symphonia) has been a disaster for the ethical/moral fibre of its nations; leading to the modern soulless deracinated “individual”: the Homo-economicus.

Don’t forget the Teleportation Device that allows viral matter to appear in Iran near instantaneously from Wuhan in January 2020.

Sad to say Ron, but the origins of Covid will get buried deep under the mountain of informational shock and awe, this 5th generational warfare.

Pathologically advanced.
Like the immortal Eternals in the film Zardoz.

That’s some pretty good reasoning there.
But there’s a catch, you can be consistent in a framework that itself is ultimately erroneous/false. For example, you can be consistent in a work of fiction, but it is still a work of fiction and not our reality/metaphysics. Consistency itself can never completely justify a system (Gödel’s incompleteness theorems).
I’m not saying that consistency isn’t valuable, but there are other epistemic composite elements required such as coherency and prepositional/axiomatic transcendence required to hold justification.
Else we’re stuck in the verisimilitude of telling better and better fantasies/narratives-lies.

You’re right. It think it’s when you are weak act strong an when you are strong act weak. But in today’s meta game, looking like acting the victim is a play of strength.

I’m interested in the why behind the US’s belligerency? Is it ultimately to get Russia out of providing security for the Middle East for Israel’s sake?

I think the solution is clear.
Avoid looking at ads.

Her argument does not really make sense in the context of the novel. The rational scientists are proven wrong by the more mystical minded Dr Van Helsing. He serves as a refutation of a Darwinist style scientist and materialists in general.

I believe we’re approaching this point as well in modern society; where metaphysical explanations make a lot more sense than the strictly physical/materialist narratives. Evil is evil and no amount of secular mental gymnastics can polish that turd.

Thanks Ron for keeping dissident voices remembered and alive.

According to Trump, apparently Israel has a right to own our government.
There’s no escaping this kosher sandwich.

They can’t wormtongue their way in like in the West into the managerial class. Nationalism is the bane to their strategy since it identifies friend-enemy distinctions quite well. In the near future, they’ll give up and every captured Western institution in unison will label the Chinese as metaphysical evil Nazis to trigger a moral “justified” casus belli against them.

What’s more, there is no possibility of negotiation, given that the Chinese are so nationalistic, and have more or less zero interest in being part of the “international community” beyond selling people high quality products at reasonable prices.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.

As the author correctly noted early in the article, survival isn’t justification enough as there is no transcendent aim: without God everything is ultimately nihilistic since we’re in a decaying material box. There is no “winner” if everything in the Universe is ultimately crushed by entropy: 1000 year Reich or even 1,000,000,000 year Reich doesn’t matter since it all goes unceremoniously in the chessboard at the end. That’s the fundamental flaw of materialist worldviews even with pseudo-spiritual notions sprinkled on top. One could make the equally justified argument that in a world of suffering with no purpose, the best evolutionary adaption isn’t to survive but to just not exist. And frankly, that’s the direction that modern philosophy is leading mankind toward: misanthropy and antinatalism.

Meanwhile with Orthodoxy, you can apply Theosis on a national level: elevate your people into saints not just in the life but beyond as well. A saint doesn’t lose his history and identity when becoming a saint; in fact those things were ontologically essential in becoming one: who you are, where you are from, how did you get to where you are. We’ve become so demoralized insofar as believing that just being/surviving as a average citizen is “good enough” that we’ve forgotten the heights of what man could be; what groups of men could be. Hell, modern man is so metaphysically ill that he forgets what a saint even looks like if they were presented with one. So cynical that they’ll think it’s some kind of virtue signaling bit or scam, not realizing that they are standing face-to-face with a better man, a truly transcendent man beyond mere suffering and surviving.

Excellent film review and metapolitical commentary.
The bankruptcy of Hollywood is again on full display. There is no subtilty to the subversiveness which has now gotten so overt that it acts as a form of anti-propaganda, undoing it’s own attempts in how blatantly hamfisted and hackneyed the narrative goal is now.
Just reminds everyone how stale the bread is and how grotesque the circuses have become.

EMJ and KM both have philosophical holes in their justification.
For EMJ it is the Catholic Church and the potential of attracting new parishioners, despite the institution itself falling to Modernism and becoming a mere “temporal power” devoid of spiritual justification (no better than the watered down Christianity of Protestantism).
For KM it is the the lack of telos in his scientific approach: in a Godless world, Evolution has no purpose or morality or values; it’s merely a force of nature like gravity or the wind. If he adopts the Nietzschean worldview, then the Jews by all means are the winners of the Will-to-Power race and it would evolutionary advantageous to kneel down to this Ubermensch people that can impose their 2+2=5 values onto gentiles. So KM is in a philosophically indefensible position without some sort of external metaphysic that can justify why the Jews are bad and why gentile success are good; it’s like saying of nature why predator lions are inherently bad and why prey gazelles are inherently good. With no metaphysics outside of physics, then there is no greater ethical justification; it may as well be arbitrary/morally relativistic.

The only synthetic outlet that seems justifiable is through the ethnic Orthodox Churches. Unlike the Catholic Church, they withstood the full jewish assault of the Bolsheviks and were triumphant in the end. They maintain the strict spirituality, traditions, values and morality of the past 2000 years of European man; without the innovations, rationalism, and ad hoc Natural Theological innovations of Catholic and Protestant Churches. And unlike the Catholics and Protestant, they hold ethnic identity, heritage, and history in high regard through the acknowledgment and veneration of their distributed network of ancient ethno-nationalist churches, with the track record of being able to create new autocephalous ethno-churches for nations willing to adopt Orthodoxy.

Maybe you historians should develop new historiographic approaches revolving around epistemic consistency and coherence rather than the purely archeological approach. History is clearly chronologically ontological so the preceding events should always theoretically make narrative sense.
We can’t keep changing/throwing away historic narrative every new piece of evidence emerges else we’re constantly stuck in the Big Lies territory as a species. The currently popular inductive method of scraps the past and trying to weave a grand narrative from it is convenient, incomplete, and disastrous.

Interesting article coming from a clearly Leftist writer. It seems that their dissonance is coming to a head as neo-progressive globalism runs afoul with classic economic labor values.
Will they hold to their principles or side with the Neo-Feudal lords looking for inexhaustible sources of docile serf biomass.

Want to end the Neoliberal world order? Easy.
End Consumerism.

I disagree. What you see is end result of philosophy without theology. Reason, empiricism, and even epistemology on its own cannot justify itself; it requires a transcendent presupposition: Logos. As man was in awe over their seaming mastery over nature, they saw themselves as material gods rather than discoverers of truths. Who needs God when we are now gods? Ultimately this hubris in “reason” has lead to present times where man thinks he can craft values out of nothing and they will become “truth” with enough will to power (applied sophisticated nihilism). In the end, this Faustian exercise of rejecting Logos in the pursuit of man’s apotheosis will lead to degenerative catabolic collapse.

The East has a future. They understand that theology precedes philosophy. They learned quick and hard in a century what rejection of the Logos has lead to; while their brothers in the West have taking the slow innocuous poison over centuries.
There is no serious philosophy without even the basic answer to the God Question, else all your knowledge, worldview, and “wisdom” is built on thin air and subject to change.

My view is that mankind will never advance under the millstone of the ancient fairy tales.

Advance in to what? Further nihilism?
The Faustian West is so infected with rationalism that it’s “rationalized” itself to a soulless husk of biomachinery unable to even abstract anything transcendent.

More likely it will be akin to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the rise of the Christian Eastern Roman Empire, with a Neo-Byzantine Russia taking point this time.

Until we have politicians who care about us, I don’t care about the geopolitical games the government wants to play.

Well said.

Chinese are not dumb enough to kill the proverbial “goose that laid the golden eggs.”

We’ll see with what they do with Hong Kong as a prototype.

IQ is moot in Forever War / Perpetual War doctrine. The goal of our military isn’t to “win” anymore but to merely sustain low kinetic warfare indefinitely. For this you just need an infinite supply of bodies of any variety.

The US is stable insofar as its consumption capabilities. If it can no longer act as the world’s glutton, then all those multinational corporations will just move operations elsewhere. Mass consumption is the only glue holding this mess together.

Interesting article. Though it leaves wanting the other half of the equation: the Sino-Russian relationship. This geo-political Euro strategy requires Russia to have someone to play off of and most undoubtedly China knows that Russia knows this.

Stupidity and ignorance are forms of indirect malice.

Excellent review Mr. Joyce.

It seems like Ellis’s analysis is congruent to the concept of “Bioleninism” being identified by the Dissident Right circles.

I’m glad that point didn’t only stand out to me, but my take was a bit different; that these manic and deranged liberals simply have no ability to comprehend reality anymore, so they just say nonsensical things because it’s the only way they can interpret things in their mentally ill state.

Please point to a single person at a trump rally the would indicate that they’re emulating some kind of Trump modeled luxury. Of course he’s a motivational speaker … that’s the job of a good President, and it drives them insane like mindless zombies that it’s the opposite of the dark lord obama.

We are actually dealing with a kind of weaponized mental virus that is spread and infects people like some kind of real world zombie apocalypse that is eating its way through society. They simply cannot comprehend reality anymore as their minds turn to mush.

The concern about someone getting away with something undeservedly while sacrificing the whole is the fruit of extreme pharisaical moralising. Jesus dispenses with this mentality in the parable of the weeds where he tells his concerned workers to leave the weeds alone. Judgement is God’s at His way and time not ours. When planting grass one nourishes the grass. The growing strong grass will take care of the weeds. When raising kids one nourishes the virtues while keeping an eye on the weeds. An atomised, moralistic, hypocritical society focuses on the weeds. What kind of children this produces is another subject.

Paul, in tune with semitic and greek thinking, understood the nature of money as the root of all evil (If we did not love it, it would not exist). Money is a system of values that comes from the vanity of mans’ imagination. It is mans’ objectification of the world in order to subjugate and possess it. It is not merely a means of exchange. It replaces the ‘value’ god has given to His creation.

Whereas relationships are normal. Money perverts human relations. It is a fake or mask over human relations. It is totalitarian in that it attempts to subjugate the world to a number, to one interpretation. Thus it is cataphatic. It does not matter whether the price/value of something is determined by a politburo (communism) or the masses at large (‘free market’). Jesus did not come to tune up our otherwise fine civilisations. He came to overthrow/transform them.

As a sickness and a perversion of human relations ‘fallen’ man understood the necessity of periodic cleansing from the debts quantified and measured in units of money. Paul clarifies that we all have a debt of love toward each other. This debt is the basis for an unending virtuous cycle of self offering not objectifiable and quantifiable. This debt of love is perverted by money and all that money presupposes as mentioned above. Furthermore, money implies an evaluation of each persons offering with fallen criteria and then an attempt to objectify that offering and, thereby, more ‘justly’ distribute the ‘value’ of the said offering. But human justice is just a redistribution of violence. And money is nothing more than a perpetuation of this violence because it rests on the disintegration of life, a life whose unity we are called to at every level of existence – political, economic, spiritual, etc.

Jesus came to establish a new political order and not a religion. This is evident by the use of the term ‘ekklesia’ or church. He juxtaposed His ekklesia against that of the demos. That this order was political with economic repercussions is evident in Acts where believers freely rejected private property. This rejection pulls the rug out from all western civilisation and was, unlike modern christianity, a serious threat to the established order as all states and rule rest on possessiveness/property. The state disappears without it.

All societies are built on a polarity: individual desire/common law. Each human is the sum total of his/her desires. But so that we can live with a modicum of relative peace given the conflicting nature of individual desires an impersonal common law comes and draws a line arbitrarily and sets a limit on our individual desires. Jesus without saying a word against emperors and rulers reverses the polarity: common experience/personal law. In the common experience of love at the Eucharist each individual believer turns that into his personal law/desire. Thus undermining all forms of rule.

This (love) alone solves the historical pendulum that Plato describes is the trap of all human history – that between the one and the many. That is, mans’ desire to be free and his desire to live in community; chaos and totalitarianism. There is no system to resolve this, neither capitalism nor communism. Love/Liberty cannot be made a system. Love (God) is the only solution and this presupposes liberty. Only when man freely shares his whole life (thus truly manifesting all that he is) can we overcome the vicious cycles that trap us in death. Love alone conquers death. This love is manifest as unity: unity within man, unity with the entire creation and ultimately with the uncreated as well. And this is a unity that presupposes diversity not the extinguishing of the individual. This involves/is a new, regenerate man. It involves a process/cycle of constant dying to self and rebirth throughout life. It/love is a struggle, a suffering, a cross. The cross is the mystery hidden in every relationship. Either i crucify my ego and allow the other to move freely toward me and i toward him or i project my ego onto the other and subjugate/crucify them to myself. There is no getting around this mystery hidden in every relationship. Love is not by nature painful. It is my pride that makes it painful… Essential to this realisation is forgiveness on every level because the unity that He calls us to is unity on every level: political, economic, social, material, spiritual, etc…

try saying those statements in Germany for eample, you will be locked up for minimum 6 yrs