As the writer makes clear, when Jesus talks about turning the other cheek he gives the example of a slap in the face, not a life-threatening attack. A slap in the face hurts our amour-propre, our reputation, our puffed up sense of our own importance and worth. Not reacting to a slap is a step on the way towards transcending the tyranny of self-image and ego inflation. It is a school in humility. It is not a blank cheque for unconditional surrender or letting bullies walk all over you. Extraordinary how many Christians have distorted this teaching. It's part of what Evola and Nietszche found repellant about Christianity. But it's not what Christ teaches at all.
I hadn't come across those salient remarks by DHL about the murder of Charles I. Fierce and bracing insight. All my life I've resonated with and responded to Charles I and perhaps now, after having read this passage, I can recognise and understand to the full the deeper issues that were (and are) at play.
Lenin and Woodrow Wilson 'never even roused real fear: no real passion. Whereas a manifestation of real power arouses passion, and always will.'
I hesitate to mention the name in many ways but where does this leave Donald Trump? Because if any public figure arouses passion and fear then surely it's him? Everyone finds him compelling, whether pro or anti? Why is this? Is the hold he has over so many a sign of our debasement and the terrible absence of Quality in our times? Or could he indeed be a sun man with a mission to cleanse the Augean Stables and take us one step further towards the 'new dark age' and the 'five hundred years of winter' that Jeffers evokes?
Thank you for your feedback and for the article. Jesus was fierce, and a fighter even in his moments of passive resistance. It reminds me of Gandhi when he stated that acts of violence are infinitely better than passive resistance out of cowardice. The overthrowing of the usurer's tables was not the act of a coward, nor a lamb. In fact, the true Jesus is both the lamb and the tiger of God.
I think Trump is a sad, pathetic man who happens to say some very good things for a lot of the wrong reasons, but when he does, accidentally, hit upon the truth of some matter, he uses it to his advantage, but doesn't actually do anything good about it. On the other hand, Biden is an idiot who is controlled by tech billionaires. This is the problem of living under systems. If Mother Teresa was president of the USA, she could not have kept her goodness, her sanctity, nor her sanity. In the old days, before systems, real men would come along to rule, men like Leonidas, but now, as Lawrence stated: "I believe the race of men is dying out: nothing left but women, eunuchs, and Robots." And so we have spiritual eunuchs and robots running the world, beholden to machine-crazed diabolical techies. We need a real sun-man, not some pathetic farce like Trump. But: "If you want a dictator, whether it is Lenin, or Mussolini, or Primo de Rivera, ask, not whether he can set money in circulation, but if he can set life in motion, by dictating to his people." We need a man who can set life back in motion. But, to answer your question, Trump is not a sun-man, but he may be a man of such profound corruption that he could help to bring along the new dark ages (a good thing) faster by setting us on the rapid path to societal suicide. I of course would prefer that we heal the world, but barring that, we should hope for a rapid collapse. Nothing is worse than the liberal-progressive push towards sustainability. To sustain such a rotten system is to cause much more untold suffering than letting it all collapse quickly.
I couldn't read this to the end, it is too repetitive. In I Ching terms our era lives the exhaustion of the masculine. No use longing for a revitalization of the masculine: we need something different.
I would disagree that the article is too repetitive. Whatever repetition is in the article has been placed there consciously. Repetition of a particular perspective from different angles is one of the oldest teaching tools, and one that is, sadly, needed now more than ever, in this era of distraction and low attention spans.
As for a revitalization of the masculine, I would state that all of humanity has become fundamentally unbalanced. The masculine and feminine have both become severely degraded. Additionally, we are seeing instances of pseudo-masculinity and pseudo-femininity pop up in the worst and strangest of places, so now women worship the cult of the pseudo-masculine and men worship the cult of the pseudo-feminine. As an old song says: "It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world." We absolutely need a revitalization of the masculine, but also a revitalization of the feminine. We need to reverse the current trajectory towards societal chaos and create a world where once again men may be men and women may be women.
Very good related essay in The European Conservative yesterday -
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/the-city-that-falls/
As the writer makes clear, when Jesus talks about turning the other cheek he gives the example of a slap in the face, not a life-threatening attack. A slap in the face hurts our amour-propre, our reputation, our puffed up sense of our own importance and worth. Not reacting to a slap is a step on the way towards transcending the tyranny of self-image and ego inflation. It is a school in humility. It is not a blank cheque for unconditional surrender or letting bullies walk all over you. Extraordinary how many Christians have distorted this teaching. It's part of what Evola and Nietszche found repellant about Christianity. But it's not what Christ teaches at all.
I hadn't come across those salient remarks by DHL about the murder of Charles I. Fierce and bracing insight. All my life I've resonated with and responded to Charles I and perhaps now, after having read this passage, I can recognise and understand to the full the deeper issues that were (and are) at play.
Lenin and Woodrow Wilson 'never even roused real fear: no real passion. Whereas a manifestation of real power arouses passion, and always will.'
I hesitate to mention the name in many ways but where does this leave Donald Trump? Because if any public figure arouses passion and fear then surely it's him? Everyone finds him compelling, whether pro or anti? Why is this? Is the hold he has over so many a sign of our debasement and the terrible absence of Quality in our times? Or could he indeed be a sun man with a mission to cleanse the Augean Stables and take us one step further towards the 'new dark age' and the 'five hundred years of winter' that Jeffers evokes?
Good work as always.
Thank you for your feedback and for the article. Jesus was fierce, and a fighter even in his moments of passive resistance. It reminds me of Gandhi when he stated that acts of violence are infinitely better than passive resistance out of cowardice. The overthrowing of the usurer's tables was not the act of a coward, nor a lamb. In fact, the true Jesus is both the lamb and the tiger of God.
I think Trump is a sad, pathetic man who happens to say some very good things for a lot of the wrong reasons, but when he does, accidentally, hit upon the truth of some matter, he uses it to his advantage, but doesn't actually do anything good about it. On the other hand, Biden is an idiot who is controlled by tech billionaires. This is the problem of living under systems. If Mother Teresa was president of the USA, she could not have kept her goodness, her sanctity, nor her sanity. In the old days, before systems, real men would come along to rule, men like Leonidas, but now, as Lawrence stated: "I believe the race of men is dying out: nothing left but women, eunuchs, and Robots." And so we have spiritual eunuchs and robots running the world, beholden to machine-crazed diabolical techies. We need a real sun-man, not some pathetic farce like Trump. But: "If you want a dictator, whether it is Lenin, or Mussolini, or Primo de Rivera, ask, not whether he can set money in circulation, but if he can set life in motion, by dictating to his people." We need a man who can set life back in motion. But, to answer your question, Trump is not a sun-man, but he may be a man of such profound corruption that he could help to bring along the new dark ages (a good thing) faster by setting us on the rapid path to societal suicide. I of course would prefer that we heal the world, but barring that, we should hope for a rapid collapse. Nothing is worse than the liberal-progressive push towards sustainability. To sustain such a rotten system is to cause much more untold suffering than letting it all collapse quickly.
I couldn't read this to the end, it is too repetitive. In I Ching terms our era lives the exhaustion of the masculine. No use longing for a revitalization of the masculine: we need something different.
I would disagree that the article is too repetitive. Whatever repetition is in the article has been placed there consciously. Repetition of a particular perspective from different angles is one of the oldest teaching tools, and one that is, sadly, needed now more than ever, in this era of distraction and low attention spans.
As for a revitalization of the masculine, I would state that all of humanity has become fundamentally unbalanced. The masculine and feminine have both become severely degraded. Additionally, we are seeing instances of pseudo-masculinity and pseudo-femininity pop up in the worst and strangest of places, so now women worship the cult of the pseudo-masculine and men worship the cult of the pseudo-feminine. As an old song says: "It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world." We absolutely need a revitalization of the masculine, but also a revitalization of the feminine. We need to reverse the current trajectory towards societal chaos and create a world where once again men may be men and women may be women.