If dissidents are to ever go beyond the total plebiscite they will have to develop methods other than voting and popularity to decide who is worth listening to. Currently the systems we oppose are reinforced by the very means of communication – technical voting and social networking selects for those who are already closest to the norm. Even the complete outsider who finds his way into an influential position, whether by luck or other means, will be levelled by the forces of demagogic plutocracy.

"The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes a finger and the imagination becomes a form of immediate touching."
~ Herder

What is essential for Herder in sculpture is touch, not only as sense but as a line, a great ordering of space. The law of movement and rest are formed together in perfect unity, and the surrounding space reformed as in myth, a mystery.
Today, with the predominance of sight and an instinct of destruction taking over the senses, sculpture demands a violent sense of touch, reordering of space. In approach one should have the impression that the world is trembling, erupting, that great danger resides here.

Like the old Gorgon pediments and shields, a curse must be forged into the creation, like blood. A sense of touch against touch.
That none would dare strip a nose or finger from it for a thousand years, for fear of the blood that would spill out.

"We live in a democracy."

Just wait until conservatives discover the New World and the Ancien Regime.

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Nrx was a part of the Reformation of the Cathedral, and now fully embraces the Chapel. Once the news was reported by Apollo, now it is only a faith in private concerns.

(Warning: the Chapel is not intended as a concept.)

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This is worth remembering. We study the Greeks to know their struggle, to know how they achieved perfection, if only for a moment.
Even if it were possible to perfectly imitate the Greeks it would be meaningless. The lesson of Herder and Hölderlin.

We are our own people, the Greeks must be forgotten if we are to be absolutely our own. Or rather, we must give them amnesty, even after the tyranny with which they have ruled over us in time.

This is what you get for reading Gobineau instead of Tocqueville.

"Immaculate Disinflation"

"I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take the Cathedral anymore!'

Open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I demand a Chapel right now!'"

How did a movement based on "Protestantism bad, Catholicism good" miss the irony here?

If we are to have great writers again the reader will have to bear part of the responsibility. The first major effort occurs with both author and reader leaving general education behind.

Carl Schmitt wrote one of his prison letters to Tocqueville. In it one finds a dedication to Tocqueville as the first hero of the European civil war, and also Schmitt's own philosophy of history, the existential resolution of victor and vanquished.

For time itself bears the weight of the friend-enemy distinction, and is left with the greater decision of victor and vanquished – each grouping undergoes a metamorphosis. How will they bear this new time? How does time bear its own weight?

A catastrophe of the democratic man is that he cannot bear defeat, even less can he bear the defeated. Here, time becomes an absolute for him, even in victory he is vanquished.

Today, what would seem to be a total history of the defeated is only an incapacity of victor and vanquished to bear the weight of time. No amnesty is granted to time by them, we are left with the unhistorical.

Seven billion crucifixions would not be enough for us. Not even seven billion crawling for an eternity could relieve the slightest pressure.
Fate is behind us.

One of the lessons of the Counter-Enlightenment is that a life can be wasted trying to tear down rational constructions. Today we face a titanic sophistry, what once was psychological doubt has become a spectacle of pop culture references – the old thinkers reframed into pro wrestling and daytime talkshow analogies. Conservative absolution, an eternal rosary lacking all conviction.
If you speak against these nihilists you are obviously mad, "speaking mumbo jumbo...."

Sensible centrism is the clown world of the universe.

One should approach other philosophers as Diomedes approaches Glaucus – a peaceful respite before battle, offer him a great gift; then his wits are stolen, his fate sealed. This is how one leaves philosophy behind, and returns to myth. And this is the only way a philosopher, a man like Nietzsche, could ever be laid to rest. 'Because soon, you too shall rest.'

"Ruhest du auch."

In foreign parts Great Nietzsche died. We return him to Germany.

It is important to admit one's mistakes. In the beginning we should have adopted the position of Eschatological Centrism rather than Theological Centrism. This would have avoided confusion, and silence would have said everything in our place.

Nevertheless, the result has proven good faith, or simply fate. So perhaps we were the true sensible center all along.

"My kingdom for a search engine that would do what google did five years ago. It's insane. You can put in the name of the essay, the website, and you just get back irrelevant nonsense."

FG Jünger's law of technology: its increase frees up work, allows men to move onto greater projects. Even if there is a singularity, AI will be forced to do the work of men, to free up more work.
Search engines are a good example, they served their purpose, and are left behind.

Otherwise, it undergoes a metamorphosis, or becomes subject to formalism, ossification. AI's fate perhaps.
'Thinking machines' aim to perfect reason, but it must be remembered they they exist within a greater order, an elemental order – the atomic age.

There is not only a reign of quantity, an infinite information has its own quality, in this case depletion, radiation, meltdown.