This is a thought experiment based on Rosenstock-Huessy‘s comments in I Am an Impure Thinker. Summarized, they are to the effect that the modern world is a place that likes to “divide time, & conquer space”. Hence our obsession with speed and time, as if we were racing against death. The traditional man must take a rather different view. Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy posited that man’s basic and essential need was the opposite – to “unify time, but divide space”.

We see this need because we have to “make a life” (that is “whole”), yet “carve out a home” (out of the surrounding chaos). This is a basic human need; if Huessy is correct, then the entire spirit of the modern world is a horrific assault on what it actually means to be human, because in our times, men are forced to segment their time (watch the clock) but also shoved together into one big life raft (we are one world). This is like watching the Raft of the Medusa in slow motion with stop-photography and intricate chronometric measurement. This is to “sup full of horror”. The modern world is a place where everyone gets what they want, but somehow, no one is ever happy. Could it perhaps have to do with the fact that we ignore the Logos and seek to create a pattern, not from inner authenticity that is linked in an interior life with the divine, but from the very opposite of this, a complete absence of inner life?

Gornahoor thinks that it most certainly is. There is a Logos. As some of those on this site have pointed out, of course, the Spirit “blows where it wills”, and many make progress naturally faster than those who imagine themselves to be “orthodox”. This, however, of course means that the Logos actually is there.

There is a “given-ness” to the “way things are”. In the Western world, this was understood as the “Logos”; this Logos was not limited to the “ways things were” in the sense of Aristotelian Being, but rather comprehended possibility and archetypes, as well as Being-beyond-Being, or the un-manifest.

The answer to livable human existence in this “nasty, short, brutish life” is counter-intuitive to the modern mindset. Modern governments pretend to “empower” the individual (by aggregating masses into factions) and to “stabilize” the state (by manipulating those factions), all the while atomizing the individual by destroying intermediate institutions and aggregating colossal power to centralized hives. This mindset is precisely what is metastasizing “the West”.

Counter-intuitively to this, it is the traditional path to summon down actual transcendental energies upon the super-person (thus actually empowering the person) while articulating in the exoteric form of organic orders, orders which are “shields of the earth” and are the achieved fruits of transcendental efforts over the centuries. Call this the “heavenly Serbia” theory if you wish; it is the opposite of the modern anti-ideal.

“…and Lazar chose heaven…”

Notes: Incidentally, please note, that Huessy has a “Hegelian” flavor to him; his remarks in these essays are his least Hegelian thoughts, and some of his most prescient (see also the essay on Teaching too Soon, Learning too Late). Also, we see how an inversion (or, more constructively, a Chiasm) of modern thought can make a “counter-revolution”. And even Hegel himself can be read rather differently.