Humanism was the first form of what has subsequently become contemporary secularism; and, owing to its desire to reduce everything to the measure of man as an end in himself, modern civilization has sunk stage by stage until it has reached the level of the lowest elements in man and aims at little more than satisfying the needs inherent in the material side of his nature, an aim that is in any case quite illusory since it constantly creates more artificial needs than it can satisfy.
— René Guénon
Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
— Frank Herbert
Today ... it is the defense of the West that is more often spoken of, and this is strange indeed, since ... it is the West, in the maelstrom of its own chaotic activity, that threatens to drag all of humanity into the abyss. ... Indeed, the West feels the need for protection, but only protection from itself and from its own tendencies, which, if carried to their logical conclusion, will inevitably lead it to destruction and death.
— René Guénon
...If the West were to return to its own tradition in one way or another, its opposition to the East would be immediately eliminated by this very fact, since the roots of this opposition are to be found only in the perversion of the West, and it itself is reduced only to the logical opposition of the traditional and anti-traditional worldviews. Therefore, contrary to some of the above opinions, the first result of a return to tradition should be an immediate restoration of mutual understanding with the East, as it always should be in the case of civilizations based on similar or identical principles.
— René Guénon
History teaches that demons understand only the language of violence. The demons running the US-NATO empire are no exception.
The US-NATO empire is colluding with all kinds of demons — terrorists, fascists, zionists, etc. — to achieve its evil goals. The empire must die.
The only serious racism that has existed in history is Jewish racism. The association of religion with blood and nationality, the belief in the chosenness of a people, the preservation of the purity of the race — all this is of Hebrew origin, introduced by the Jews. I don't know if German racists notice that they are imitating the Jews.
— Nikolai Berdyaev, 1938
Democracy arises when the organic unity of the people's will disintegrates, when society atomizes, when the popular beliefs that united the people into a single whole perish. The ideology that recognizes the supremacy and autocracy of the people's will arises when the people's will no longer exists. Democracy is the ideology of a critical, not organic epoch in the life of human societies. Democracy aims to gather the disintegrated popular will. But the human person is for it an abstract atom, equal to any other, and the task of reuniting people is a mechanical task. Democracy is only able to mechanically summarize the will of all, but the common will, the organic will of the people is not obtained from this. The organic will of the people cannot be arithmetically expressed, it is undetectable by any counting of votes. This will is found in the whole historical life of the people, in the whole stock of its culture, and above all and most of all it finds expression in the religious life of the people. Outside the organic religious soil, outside the unity of religious beliefs, there is no unified, common will of the people. When the people's will falls, the people disintegrate into atoms. And from atoms no unity, no commonality can be recreated. Only the mechanical sum of majority and minority remains. There is a struggle of parties, a struggle of social classes and groups, and an equilibrium is formed in this struggle. Democracy is the arena of struggle, the clash of interests and directions. In it everything is fragile, everything is not firm, there is no unity and stability. It is an eternal transitional state. Democracy creates a parliament, the most inorganic of formations, an organ of dictatorship of political parties. Everything is short-lived in a democratic society, everything is aspired to something beyond democracy itself. Genuine ontological life is beyond democracy. Democracy lingers too long on the formally insubstantial moment of freedom of choice. ... Democracy recognizes the people as sovereign and autocratic, but the people it does not know, there is no people in democracies. That detached human generation of a very brief passage of historical time, an exceptionally modern generation, not even all of it, but some part of it, which fancies itself the master of historical destinies, cannot be called a people.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
There may have been more true freedom of spirit in the days when the fires of the Inquisition were blazing than in today's bourgeois democratic republics that deny spirit and religious conscience.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Democracy does not want to know the radical evil of human nature. It does not seem to foresee that the will of the people can be directed toward evil, that the majority can stand for untruth and falsehood, and that truth can remain the domain of a small minority.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Truth is sacred, and a society founded on truth cannot be an exclusively secular society. Secular democracy means a falling away from the ontological foundations of society, a falling away of human society from the Truth.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
He who believes in the truth and knows the truth does not surrender it to the tatters of the quantitative majority.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
The process of recovery is a slow but organic process. It is first of all redemption from the spirit of lies, the exit from the realm of ghosts and phantoms to the realities. Now it is most necessary to assert the primacy of spiritual activity over political activity. It is necessary to fight spiritually against the bloody nightmare that has engulfed the world. The exclusive predominance of politics magnifies this nightmare and increases the bloodlust. The freedom of the human spirit must now be saved.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
I had a NDE OBE and a mystical experience of divine Light, I believe in God and afterlife, I'm not afraid to die. My worst fear is to be reincarnated in a global US empire, for such an unnatural order can be stabilized only by terror and AI-panopticon in which all freedom will die.
All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual’s own.
— Herbert Marcuse
Only violent means can prevent the establishment of absolute power... Only civil war can bring one or the other solution to such a situation.
— Karl Jaspers
#Germany #Texas #Texit
The West is not acting out of strength but out of fear and desperation, the empire is gradually collapsing and all it can do is use force (including sanctions) against its competitors. It can't just die peacefully, it would rather set the whole world on fire. The usual demonism.
What, in all the millenniums of human history and pre-history, no god had been able to do for man, man has done for himself. It is natural enough that in these achievements of his he should discern the true inwardness of being—until he shrinks back in alarm from the void he has made for himself.
— Karl Jaspers
If a nation's spiritual forces have dried up, no best state structure and no industrial development will save it from death; a tree with a rotten hollow will not stand.
— Solzhenitsyn
