Mars, surrounded by the Arts and Sciences, conquers Ignorance
Antoon Claeissens, 1605

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"With the catastrophes we see figures emerging, which prove themselves equal to the cataclysms and which will outlive them when the incidental names have been long forgotten. Among these figures is, first and foremost, that of the Worker, marching confidently and unswervingly toward its goals. The fires of downfall only serve to throw it into an ever brighter light. For the moment it still radiates an ambiguous titanic glow; we cannot yet guess the royal capitals, the cosmic metropolises in which it will erect its thrones. The world wears its uniform and its armor, and at some point it will also don its festival attire. Since it is only at the start of its career, comparisons with any previously accomplished states would be improper.

In its train other figures surface, including those in which the suffering is sublimated. One of these is the Unknown Soldier, the Nameless, who for just this reason lives not only in every capital but also in every village, in every family. The battlefields, the temporal goals, and even the peoples he has represented sink into the realm of the uncertain. As the conflagrations cool, something else remains, a shared something, and now it is no longer will and passion but art and worship that turn to it.

Why is it that this second figure is so clearly connected in our memory with the First but not the Second World War? This comes from the clear delineations that emerged from that point forward of the forms and goals of the global civil war. The soldierly aspect fell therewith into second rank. Yet the Unknown Soldier remains a hero, a conqueror of fiery worlds, who shoulders great burdens in the midst of the mechanical devastation. In this sense he is also a true descendant of western chivalry.

The Second World War is distinguished from the First not only because the national questions mix openly with and subordinate themselves to those of civil war, but also due to the escalated mechanical development, which approaches extreme limits of automatism. This brings with it intensified assaults on nomos and ethos. In this connection, utterly hopeless encirclements result from overwhelming superior forces. The material battle escalates into one of encirclement and annihilation, into a Cannae without the ancient grandeur. The suffering increases in a manner that must necessarily exclude any heroic element."

~ Ernst Jünger

In this short 10 minute video, I will make clear how a generation of failed artists can only produce a generation of lost souls stuck in a spiritual purgatory. As long as a pile of bricks on the floor is considered art, and as long as our movies are more often than not cash grabbing reboots, then it will remain such that art will fail to guide us to higher ideals as it once did perhaps because it was we who have failed art.

What we need is, now more than ever, art that speaks to the transcendent and the eternal, as it had done for countless centuries. It is time to once again create the very art that can in fact, not only get us through life but guide us all the way, if not beyond.

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This video raises some powerful questions.

Was the Renaissance really a great resurgence of art, or did its classicism merely remove ancient art from its context and thus strip it of its true value? What do we really get from filling our eyes with the innumerable simulacra of traditional paintings, sculptures, and architecture that pervade these online spaces? Does this not in reality separate art from Life, turning it into vain entertainment and a mere commodity; would we not honor art far more by instead seeking and creating new art that really expresses ourselves and lives among us, where it will actually serve its highest purpose?

“The emperor’s office was inseparable from the work of the Katechon, with its concrete tasks and missions. This was true of a monarchy or a crown, i.e., of rule over a particular Christian land and its people. It was the elevation of a crown, not a vertical intensification…but a commission that stemmed from a completely different sphere than did the dignity of the monarchy. …Thus, as the Ludus de Antichristo demonstrates (in accord with the tradition dominated by Adso), the emperor, in all humility and modesty, and without compromising himself, laid down his imperial crown after completing a crusade.”

- 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒍 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕, “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉”

Unconfirmed reports of casualties among the Serbian military in the conflict zone on the border with Kosovo.

First barricades in the town of Rudare.(PICTURED ABOVE)

Gunshot wounds reported among Serbs at the Jarinje checkpoint

The Serbian population of Kosovo and Metohija began to build barricades, the national television of the republic reported.

Kosovo army plans to attack the northern part of Serbia at midnight - Vučić 5. Serbian President Vučić intends to issue an emergency address to the nation on the situation in Kosovo

Kosovo special forces are on their way to the border crossing point of Yarinje in the north of the country.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/31/2113713/-War-appears-imminent-between-Serbia-and-Kosovo?utm_campaign=recent

🇮🇶 Military vehicles seen in many areas of Baghdad. As tension mounts between Shia powers.

📎 Barzan Sadiq