Weaponized Nostalgia and the Human Cost of 9/11

[@didymussumydid9726]

I was at the dump and I saw a guy throwing away a box of NES cartridges, plus a light gun and the console. I’m nostalgic about the pre-online era when I didn’t know about what we were doing and what we had already done. This is the era of dissolutionment, particularly after 2010 when obongo’s “change” was revealed to be “new boss same as the old boss”

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@didymussumydid9726 Yes. The analog era when we could be blissfully ignorant. The 2008 election was, for me, the suspension of my belief in the system. I then understood tge two party system as a Hegelian dialectic that is used to leap-frog the nation through history via wild and reactionary change while failing to change for the better anything that matters. It's been going on for millennia

[@timbeck6726]

"Nostalgia of Futures Past" is a video essay from youtuber Morgoths Review. You may enjoy it.

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@timbeck6726 I'll check that out 👍

[@ty7574]

Thanks for serving, from a fellow GWOT vet. Really enjoy your content and channel. It's hard to have these in-depth discussions with many of my family and friends, who aren't ready for these topics.

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@ty7574 It's truly isolating. My brother is virtually the only irl person I can talk to about these things. Thank you for your service as well. I still suffer the effects of my time overseas, but I credit deployment with the acceleration of my overall outlook. More than most, we know how the sausage really gets made.

[@Patrick-gr2wr]

“Oh night primeval, and chaos old!” It would seem that a great vortex of chaotic darkness pervades all these days. What identity is there to be had? What sense of unity to bind our culture and our people, legitimate, and springing forth from deep, inspired, timeless fountains? The ancients seemed to have had legitimate culture, legitimate shared myth, a legitimate sense of identity, and knew their orientation in life and their place in the cosmic hierarchy. They were privileged by a real connection to the fons aeternus. We have been swallowed up in the age of chaos. Beyond fractured. No left, right, up or down. A twisted, gnarled, amorphous mess. This is the general feeling I get, and I see no option, no other solution than to identify with the timeless principles which have guided men in all ages. “Ride the tiger.” It’s depressing when no such elements seem to be present in our world today. I don’t know of anything else. Sorry for the ramblings. Man at large seems to be completely dissociated from who and what he is. And it permeates in the decay around us. God help us.

[@exquofonte]

Ride the tiger and reject the modern world. As @philosophicat says, We can reignite the flame within ourselves. The living link stretching into eternity We can become a liberating force for our ancestors, giving them a new life, allowing them to live again We need not succumb to despair When you are connected to the great spirit of your ancestors, then that life essence animates you and serves as an antidote to nihilism There are thousands of lifetimes within you of which you are but a sacred trustee and a bearer of the flame For whatever shortcomings many of our forefathers may have had, they somehow managed to keep the fire alive through countless dark nights so that we could be here today By completing the journey and discovering the lost wisdom; by living in step with the integral traditions, you reconnect your soul to the collective unconscious and become who you were born to be. You are the bearer of this divine fire of your forefathers, your family, and your people. Rise to this challenge all who heed the call, and along with the turning of the seasons will come a new nobility, made strong like steel in the furnace of the Kali Yuga, with hearts full of love and spiritual power, the two elements from which great nations are born, and on which the fate of the world turns.

[@Patrick-gr2wr]

@@exquofontePowerful thoughts. Thank you.

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@Patrick-gr2wr I take a lot of comfort in old, obscure books and eccentric authors, but community is not built on eccentricity. My biggest complaint is that everything is in flux and I see all my friends and family driven mad by every fake headline. They've lost sight of the immanent and the transcendent around them. I grow a lot of my own food because it's the best way to "touch grass" and not mindlessly consume products from corporations that hate us, but even amongst those who consider themselves informed such hard work is considered barbaric, so this is done largely without close community. At this juncture, the only things I consider inarguably real are things local and communal. That's the one thing the "powers that be" fear -- small communities that they can neither infiltrate nor control.

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@exquofonte This is one of the reasons I brew my own beer. It's a connection to my ancestors as they brewed beer for millennia before the first grocery stores. I appreciate what you're saying, but the one obstacle I haven't discovered a remedy for is the total lack of organic spontaneity in consciously trying to resurrect a lost past. A conscious rejection of "now" can turn into a L@rρ too easily. That's what I think Latin Mass and Norse Paganism often reduce to: a type of performative exhibition that fails to seep into the bones. I'll keep working on a solution, but I don't feel I've found it yet.

[@exquofonte]

@@Catholic-Perennialist Yeah I get that. I am reading Evola's book on the subject now, and I think his idea of revolt against modernity is fundamentally (for men) an inner orientation away from materialism and towards serving a spiritual principle, and becoming self-led, cultivating spiritual virility, and so forth. As for paganism and l@rping, I've been thinking about this a lot. I'd love to see a sort of Christo-paganism emerge. Christianity tends to mutate about every 500 years or so, so we may be due for something new soon. A lot of BAP types out there want to wage war against Christianity which i think is a mistake. At the same time, the increasing desire to connect to ancestral deities and so on speaks to a part of the soul universal-egalitarian Christianity writes out, and one of the great sins of the church was making all the gods out as demons. Blake said a fool who persists in his folly will become wise... maybe a l@rper who persists in his l@rping will become real