Rather than watch the Academy Awards, I had some time to glance through some “conservative” or “right” web sites. The striking thing I noticed is the trend toward an Oprah Winfrey type of “confessional” writing and “conversion” experiences. On this, we agree with H L Mencken who never trusted anyone … Continue reading
Category Archives: Political Science
Spanish Falangism
As spiritual reality, the state is organic and results from “cells”: the family, the local community, and common business and professional associations. It is hierarchical and opposes any class conflict. Continue reading
Law of Unintended Consequences
It is not just a question of intelligence, but also of moral will. There is an ethics of intelligence, and the failure to consider the unintended consequences of one’s acts is a moral, as much as an intellectual, failing. Continue reading
Ernst Junger on Apoliteia
The following passages are from Ernst Junger’s philosophical-metahistorical novel Eumeswil, a book which complements Julius Evola’s Ride the Tiger quite nicely. “I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing … Continue reading
The Triple Foundation of the Social Order
Rene Guenon assigned a triple foundation to the social order and political power: Metaphysical, Cosmological, Sociological Continue reading
Instinct, Consciousness, Science
Corresponding to the three stages of the consciousness of the individual as described in Julius Evola’s The Individual and the Becoming of the World, there are three stages in the self-understanding of the social group: Instinct Consciousness Science Instinct A healthy society is based on healthy instincts. Families are strong, … Continue reading
Précis
What follows is a brief précis of the fundamental point of view of the Gornahoor project. Epistomology We hold to three degrees of knowledge: Doxa (sensus, opinion, sensual knowledge). Direct, intuitive knowledge through the senses. I taste the sweetness and moistness of a mango. Dianoia (ratio, rational knowledge). Indirect knowledge, … Continue reading
The Metaphysics of Law
Thus one arrives at the ideal of law by introspection, at the idea of law by reasonable evaluation of experiences, and at the concept of law by knowing the facts of positive law. Continue reading
The Element of Trust
A system, an order may be as useful and good as can be — ultimately it depends on people, who abandon, relinquish, reinterpret, falsify, or simply betray it. Continue reading
Worlds Apart
It is a platitude to say that the men of our day no longer understand each other. This is nothing new since the Tower of Babel. But God had left a certain relation between men through the intelligence. Now it is this bridge which our day has just broken down. Men no longer understand each other: on the level of the peasant this is not evident; on the bourgeois level is an inconvenience, on the intellectual level it is tragic, because, for the intellectual there is no other genuine reason for living than that of communication, in order to understand the world. Continue reading