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Straw Dogs

Alex Kurtagic

I have suggested in previous articles, as well as in my dystopian novel, Mister, that the longer we allow our enemies to carry on as they are, the harsher the measures that will be required to extricate ourselves from the present mess.
This is not a profound insight; it is something every schoolboy learns in the [...]

Published: October 26, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald

The TOQ Classics Corner

The French statesman, writer, and philosopher, Louis Vicomte de Bonald belongs to the theologist school of the Traditionalists. Bonald was born on October 2nd, 1754 at Monna, near Millau a town in the Rouergue region (Aveyron) of southern France, into an aristocratic family. He studied at the Oratorian Collège de Juilly. As an aristocrat, military [...]

Published: October 13, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

On the Secret of Degeneration

Julius Evola

Anyone who has come to reject the rationalist myth of “progress” and the interpretation of history as an unbroken positive development of mankind will find himself gradually drawn towards the world-view that was common to all the great traditional cultures, and which had at its center the memory of a process of degeneration, slow obscuration, [...]

Published: October 12, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Nietzsche on the Code of Manu

The TOQ Classics Corner

Editor’s Note: The Code of Manu (circa. 200 BC – 200 AD) is the earliest known work of Hindu law. The following discussion is from section no. 57 of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ. The translation is by H. L. Menken. The paragraph breaks have been introduced for online readability. The ellipses are Nietzsche’s.

A book of [...]

Published: August 6, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Nietzsche’s Critique of Modernity

The TOQ Classics Corner

Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 39 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.

39. Critique of modernity. — Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the [...]

Published: July 20, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments
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