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Literacy, Bureaucracy, and the Closing of the Savage Mind

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The written word does not replace speech, any more than speech replaces gesture. But it adds an important dimension to much social action. This is especially true of the politico-legal domain, for the growth of bureaucracy clearly depends to a considerable degree upon the ability to control [non-kin] relationships by means of written communication. (Jack Goody) 

One thing that Russia lacks not is bureaucracy; lots and lots of bureaucracy, documented with documentation, itself filled with tables, calculations, stamps, and signatures, made official with notary seals and stitched bindings.  This is the world of the document, and the land of the written word.

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Alexander Dugin on Building the International Resistance

Attack the System: A New Anarchist Perspective for the 21st Century by Keith Preston

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“Politically, we have here an interesting basis for the conscious co-operation of the radical Left-wingers and the New Right, as well as with religious and other anti-modern movements, such as the ecologists and Green theorists, for example. The only thing that we insist on in creating such a pact of cooperation is to put aside anti-Communist, as well as anti-fascist, prejudice. These prejudices are the instruments in the hands of liberals and globalists with which they keep their enemies divided. So we should strongly reject anti-Communism as well as anti-fascism. Both of them are counter-revolutionary tools in the hands of the global liberal elite. At the same time, we should strongly oppose any kind of confrontation between the various religious beliefs – Muslims against Christians, the Jews against Muslims, the Muslims against Hindus and so on. The inter-confessional wars and tensions work for the cause of the Kingdom of the…

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“Did atheist philosopher see God when he ‘died’?” by William Cash

davidjamesstokes's avatarVarious Enthusiasms

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March 3, 2001

“I haven’t told this to anybody before,” said Dr. Jeremy George, senior consultant in the Department of Thoracic Medicine at London University’s Middlesex Hospital. On the table in front of him were the official hospital notes of “Sir Alfred Ayer, date of birth 29/10/10, of 51 York Street, London, W1.”

We were discussing the incident of June, 1988, when the eminent 77-year-old British philosopher, arguably the most influential 20th century rationalist after Bertrand Russell, famously “died” in London University Hospital. His heart stopped for four minutes when he apparently choked on a slice of smoked salmon smuggled in by a former mistress.

Three months later, while recuperating at his house in the south of France, the atheist author of Language, Truth and Logic, whose more than 50-year career was devoted to ridiculing all metaphysical statements, especially all Christian doctrine, as nonsense, wrote a lengthy article…

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“A Sky Without Eagles: Selected Essays and Speeches” by Jack Donovan

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When we admire a man we say we “look up to him.” This doesn’t necessarily mean that he is taller than us. Perhaps the phrase is rooted in the idea of a child looking up to an adult mentor, but in everyday usage, we say we look up to a man because he has ascended to a higher level in some capacity that we wish to emulate. This sense of “looking up” is how we should interpret the meaning of Jack Donovan’s new book, A Sky WithoutEagles: Selected Essays and Speeches, 2010-2014. The eagle has long been a symbol of greatness in the eyes of men and so we feel a sense of tragedy in the title. In a sky without eagles we have nothing to look up to and nothing to inspire us. Is this the world we now live in? Each chapter in the book touches on this question in some way as it relates to…

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