As the writer makes clear, when Jesus talks about turning the other cheek he gives the example of a slap in the face, not a life-threatening attack. A slap in the face hurts our amour-propre, our reputation, our puffed up sense of our own importance and worth. Not reacting to a slap is a step on the way towards transcending the tyranny of self-image and ego inflation. It is a school in humility. It is not a blank cheque for unconditional surrender or letting bullies walk all over you. Extraordinary how many Christians have distorted this teaching. It's part of what Evola and Nietszche found repellant about Christianity. But it's not what Christ teaches at all.
I hadn't come across those salient remarks by DHL about the murder of Charles I. Fierce and bracing insight. All my life I've resonated with and responded to Charles I and perhaps now, after having read this passage, I can recognise and understand to the full the deeper issues that were (and are) at play.
Lenin and Woodrow Wilson 'never even roused real fear: no real passion. Whereas a manifestation of real power arouses passion, and always will.'
I hesitate to mention the name in many ways but where does this leave Donald Trump? Because if any public figure arouses passion and fear then surely it's him? Everyone finds him compelling, whether pro or anti? Why is this? Is the hold he has over so many a sign of our debasement and the terrible absence of Quality in our times? Or could he indeed be a sun man with a mission to cleanse the Augean Stables and take us one step further towards the 'new dark age' and the 'five hundred years of winter' that Jeffers evokes?
I couldn't read this to the end, it is too repetitive. In I Ching terms our era lives the exhaustion of the masculine. No use longing for a revitalization of the masculine: we need something different.
Very good related essay in The European Conservative yesterday -
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/the-city-that-falls/
As the writer makes clear, when Jesus talks about turning the other cheek he gives the example of a slap in the face, not a life-threatening attack. A slap in the face hurts our amour-propre, our reputation, our puffed up sense of our own importance and worth. Not reacting to a slap is a step on the way towards transcending the tyranny of self-image and ego inflation. It is a school in humility. It is not a blank cheque for unconditional surrender or letting bullies walk all over you. Extraordinary how many Christians have distorted this teaching. It's part of what Evola and Nietszche found repellant about Christianity. But it's not what Christ teaches at all.
I hadn't come across those salient remarks by DHL about the murder of Charles I. Fierce and bracing insight. All my life I've resonated with and responded to Charles I and perhaps now, after having read this passage, I can recognise and understand to the full the deeper issues that were (and are) at play.
Lenin and Woodrow Wilson 'never even roused real fear: no real passion. Whereas a manifestation of real power arouses passion, and always will.'
I hesitate to mention the name in many ways but where does this leave Donald Trump? Because if any public figure arouses passion and fear then surely it's him? Everyone finds him compelling, whether pro or anti? Why is this? Is the hold he has over so many a sign of our debasement and the terrible absence of Quality in our times? Or could he indeed be a sun man with a mission to cleanse the Augean Stables and take us one step further towards the 'new dark age' and the 'five hundred years of winter' that Jeffers evokes?
Good work as always.
I couldn't read this to the end, it is too repetitive. In I Ching terms our era lives the exhaustion of the masculine. No use longing for a revitalization of the masculine: we need something different.