Geminial
52 posts



Absurd late-Soviet Chernenko feel. Both Europe and USA are in deep trouble so it shouldn't be pissing match. But I have many American friends who once making their millions left to live in Europe, you might ask why. It's because their signature experience of USA is stuck in traffic looking at an obese single mom in capri pants by the side of the highway with a mulatto kid in front of strip malls at best; or having your week or year ruined by a false harassment accusation or some absurd lawsuit (often redistribution/lottery by other means). We can quibble on house size, food quality, life expectancy (prior to Trump USA had a falling life expectancy caused by overdoses, suicides, diabetes...about 6-10 yrs after your post-2007 "boom"), etc., but the stress, overwork and wretchedness of life in America especially for younger people, who now have no path to building wealth, is unequaled in the developed world--they have no pleasure or freedom to make up for it either.


BAP is 1) a Romanian immigrant; 2) who grew up in MA; and is 3) an Ivy graduate. So, we're 0 for 3 there in terms of commonalities and ideas of what being an American is all about. I prefer to engage intellectually, but as BAPs writings are based on status & superiority, 1/



The iPad kid epidemic is going to be looked back on as one of the biggest parenting mistakes of the 2010s and 2020s....






What a weird religion!

Traditionalism is the inverted form of leftism. Both see the West as corrupt. For the left, the West is corrupted in its soul due to "oppression" of other peoples; for the Traditionalist, it is because the West is "decadent." Both view other peoples as "uncorrupted," "pure," "traditional," and so on. The fact that Traditionalism appeals to metaphysics while the left appeals to materialism only changes the nature of the critique, not its target: the soul of the West. It is no coincidence that the left feels more comfortable allied with Islam than with Christians. The substance of the thought may change, but the hatred of the Western form of life is the same in Marx and Guénon. It's not a surprise that Guénon chose Egypt and Islam. It was his final judgment on the West. The fact that Guénon was a genius only makes all of this even more dangerous, because he offers the most solid metaphysical foundations for the enemies of the West. It is time for the right to understand this, or it will remain trapped in theoretical deceptions such as Eurasianism.

Christianity alone testifies that there is something wrong with being. Moreover, it alone also testifies that not only can it not be improved, but that the "improvement" itself constitutes being in its error.













