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A Duginist leader published a text on Atlanticism, arguing that the concept still has great explanatory power in portraying the projection of American power.

Indeed, there is much utility in the overarching idea of ​​Maritime Power, present in Classical Geopolitics, and of which Atlanticism is an application. It is worth noting, however, that the Russian geopolitician Alexander Dugin falls into a strict dichotomy in his approach to these terms, giving them a "metaphysical" and eschatological content that leads to contradictions that are difficult to escape.

The Brazilian author of the cited piece states that, according to Dugin, "maritime powers (like Athens, Carthage, and Great Britain in other eras) are those driven by a mercantile ethos. Their existential center being the exchange and accumulation of goods, this has implications in other areas. The method of expansion is the construction of trading posts and coastal colonies; the values ​​are materialistic, egalitarian, and individualistic. Instability and precariousness are positively valued, so there is an impulse to relativize all types of limits, borders, and taboos."

This is indeed the framework within which the Russian thinker frames his "philosophy of history," marked by the confrontation between thalassocracies (maritime powers) and tellurocracies (land powers). However, in doing so, Dugin deviates in a Manichean way from the writings of Carl Schmitt, an intellectual whose work is only fully understood against the backdrop of Christian theology. Schmitt considered the Eastern Roman Empire [better known as the "Byzantine Empire"] a civilization of the sea, alongside Venice, and Athens and Carthage, cited by our Duginist author.

It is worth remembering that Constantinople is the Mother Church of Russia. It was through this Thalassocratic (Sea) Empire, supposedly of "materialistic, egalitarian, and individualistic values," that Orthodoxy not only arrived in Kievan Rus', but also spread and developed throughout Muscovy. If Russia could call itself the "Third Rome," operating the myth of translatio imperii so well-liked by Dugin, it is because it considers itself in the lineage of a maritime civilization.

For Schmitt, the great danger lay not in the Sea as an expression of individualistic or mercantile values, but rather in the 'spatial' rupture that occurred at the dawn of Modernity, and which created conditions for the complete conversion to the Open Sea, that is, to the Oceans, later unified.

It is true that this situation allowed for the emergence of an Oceanic World Empire capable of encircling all lands. However, nineteenth-century technological developments provided the possibility for land powers to also fight for a World Empire, a fundamental point in the work of Halford John Mackinder (the struggle for the "Heartland"). Both land and sea can fall into what Schmitt called Caesarism, the Bonapartist re-emergence of a type of non-Christian imperial power. An Empire that is not Katechon, in the words of the German jurist.

Katechon is the figure cited by the Apostle Saint Paul as an "obstacle" to the reign of the Antichrist. In traditional theology and in Schmitt, it refers to a Christian and providential idea of ​​the Roman Emperor, a function that would always be exercised by a character or State throughout history. Dugin, in turn, mobilizes these ideas in a fetishized way, claiming that Katechon is the Russian people themselves, whom he calls the "Throne of God," an epithet that the offices of the Orthodox Church actually confer on the All-Holy and Pure Theotokos (that is, the Blessed Virgin Mary).

According to Dugin,

>"Russia, which today enters the final battle against chaos, is in the position of one who fights against the antichrist himself. But how far we are from this high ideal, which the radical nature of the final battle demands. And yet... Russia is the 'prepared throne'. From the outside it may appear to be empty. But it is not. The Russian people and state carry the katechumens. [...] We, the Russians, carry the Throne of the Prepared. And in the history of mankind there is no mission more sacred, more lofty, more sacrificial than to lift Christ, the King of kings, upon our shoulders. As long as there is a Cross on the throne, it is the Russian Cross, Russia is crucified on it, she bleeds her sons and daughters and all this for a reason... We are on the right path to the resurrection of the dead. [Dugin, Genesis and Empire, 2022 - an excerpt from this book is also available here]

However, for Schmitt, the function of Katechon was also performed by Constantinople, a maritime power. And against a land power:

>"[The Eastern Roman Empire], as a maritime power, achieved what Charlemagne's land power was unable to: it acted as a bulwark, a Katechon, as it is said in Greek. Despite its weakness, it withstood the attacks of Islam for centuries, preventing the Arabs from conquering all of Italy. In the absence [of Constantinople], Italy would have become part of the Muslim world, like North Africa, and all of ancient and Christian civilization would have disappeared." [Schmitt, 1942]

The German even goes so far as to claim that the British Empire of the early 19th century was a Katechon in the pursuit of global equilibrium.

Schmitt's perspective on the dispute between Land and Sea—which he believed had been shaken by another revolution, the conquest of the element of air, which also provides several interesting reflections, including from a theological and metaphysical point of view—was not that of a Manichean confrontation between Good and Evil, repeated indefinitely throughout history. Land and Sea are representations of two mythological monsters, and as such, powers of Nature, to which men, in their freedom, can choose to adhere. There is no intrinsic problem in either of them, as long as they are under divine aegis, or complemented by elements of Nature not contemplated in this duality of Classical Geopolitics.

Dugin's Manichean tendency to demonize one of the elements of Nature will have repercussions on his approach to gender and on his noology, given the distorted Platonism of the Russian thinker, who associates Thalassocracy with woman and matter, and both with chaos that must be subdued through war, as in the myth of Kulturkampf. But this is a contradiction to be addressed elsewhere.

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Khomeinism has been the Ideology that dominated Iranian Politics since the 1979 Revolution, yet many people don't know that much about it, assuming it to be yet another mere Islamist Ideology. This video will go into detail regarding the Ideologogical Evolution of Khomeinism and its core doctrines, as well as coming up with a new strategy in the end on how to combat it.

I came across a Facebook post written by a friend of mine describing his experience with sex education in the 80´s. The post said the following :

>The sex education of my generation (a good topic for Easter)

>1. Spoiler alert: it was disastrous and shattered by experimentation, long before we “experienced” anything firsthand. Much worse than the sex education of the good guys of yesteryear with the maids of the provinces, or of the kids today (Pornhub and Urban Beach toilets). We have images that took years to get out of our heads.

>2. First scene: João, 8 or 9 years old, in a Catholic school, but a progressive one, they even decided to have a pilot project for sex education classes (some colleagues from that time know exactly what's coming; but those who didn't go there certainly had variations of this story). Problem: these classes were given by a friar, Brother Costa (a friar, a man who took vows of chastity and poverty, giving sex education classes, take a moment to let the idea sink in and think about everything that could go wrong).

>3. Although competent in the scientific aspects of procreation, Brother Costa described the act itself as follows: “The mother and father [subtext: obviously united by the bonds of holy matrimony] are in bed, the father [the man takes the initiative] asks, ‘Oh my dear, would you like to have another [note: another - all that God sends] baby?’ And they laugh a lot, hug a lot, perform that insertion we talked about in previous classes, and 9 months later a baby is born.”

>4. In other words, just insertion. Like a pen drive in a USB port (which didn't exist back then, kids). No preliminaries, no rhythm, it was inserting and waiting for baby Jesus to perform his miracle, via download.

>5. And I remember thinking: “So much for this! This sex thing is crap, I want to play soccer.”

>6. Second scene: at home, still in the 80s, without parental supervision, channel surfing between the only two channels then existing on TV. On RTP2, a Japanese film is playing. “Cool, ninjas and samurai,” we thought. But no. It’s what for many years I referred to as “That movie whose name must not be said,” so as not to accidentally summon demons, but today I can say – “The Empire of the Senses” (which, mind you: it wasn’t porn, but an avant-garde and very explicit scene; there was no funk music or plumbers here). There I learned that Brother Costa had lied, after all, the thing involves a lot of movement, with several women more or less simultaneously, with the insertion of objects like eggplants and eggs, which are then a devil to remove (!!), procreation is not a necessary consequence (I don’t remember retaining any dialogue about the continuation of the species), and in the end the woman, in a psychotic delirium, proceeds to the brutal castration of the man. “That one even hurt me, definitely, this crap is not for me, I’d rather play soccer. And there isn’t a single scene of samurai fighting in the middle!!”

>7. Appreciate your partner if he was born in the early 80s and manages to be a normal guy. We went through horrific images, had to overcome a lot of post-traumatic stress, and unlearn very dysfunctional things.

For those who grew up in the 80´s, can you tell me if my friend is exagerating ? Were your experiences with sex education similar to what he describes ?

A few days ago, I came across a Facebook post that said the following :

>Synopsis for a possible sequel to "A Clockwork Orange" (1962 - book / 1971 - film)

>*

>England, 1985.

>Alex DeLarge at 30 years old. After all the traumatic experience with the Ludovico treatment; the merciless revenge of society after his return; the suicide attempt and years of psychiatric hospitalization, etc., our protagonist decides that the best thing to do would be to acquire a solid intellectual foundation. Not that he was under the illusion that this would give any 'greater' meaning to his life, much less justify it; he thinks, however, that perhaps it is a way to put it into perspective, to provide focus and direction to the deep and inexorable hatred that continues to devour his insides. Therefore, he asks his great guarantor within the government, the Minister of the Interior, to get him a scholarship in sociology, political philosophy, literature or psychology at some good educational institution in the country. By activating the appropriate channels and subjecting Alex to the necessary academic procedures and exams, the minister manages to enroll him in the prestigious political science department of the London School of Economics.

>Our hero's university life would certainly not be the easiest. The curriculum does not arouse much interest in Alex; in terms of social interaction, his past reputation and haughty/arrogant/aggressive posture certainly do not garner him much sympathy among his peers. Gradually, however, Alex begins, through indirect means, to discover the 'dark side of the force' of his field of study: here and there, works by authors such as Carl Schmitt, Sorel, Gentile, Jünger, Spengler, Evola, etc., begin to fall into his hands, in addition to texts by political leaders such as Mussolini, Hitler, Goebbels, Codreanu, Degrelle, Primo de Rivera, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, etc. Furthermore, to his immense delight and fascination, he discovers the figure of Sir Oswald Mosley, whom he soon comes to regard as a role model and political patron.

>Last but DEFINITELY not least, crowning this process of metanoia, is the sublime and decisive moment for the eternal music lover that Alex always was and always will be: the discovery of the universe of Richard Wagner, with all the obvious and very important consequences that this could have for someone like him. It is undoubtedly like the explosion of a supernova in the depths of outer space: now the amorphous and chaotic revolt that had always simmered within him has a name, logic, purpose.

>___

>England, 1995

>Well, without further ado: Alex completes his studies, obtaining a master's degree and finally a PhD. As he would obviously never adapt to the academic environment (and the new government was determined to extinguish his pension), he begins to give private lessons. Always charismatic, extremely engaging and seductive, over a few years he gathers not just a handful of students, but a veritable legion of fervent disciples.

>England, year 2002 onwards.

>And so the process evolves organically, as if corresponding to the natural flow of things, to a practically inevitable dynamic: Alex becomes the leader of a new political organization, a kind of BUF (British Union of Fascists - I haven't yet thought about what the new party's name could be) of the National Bolshevism era.

>In a short time the movement gains surprising strength and notoriety, alarming the British and European political establishment. Then the figure of the antagonist emerges: Anthony Greenwall, leader of the Labour Party. A progressive left-wing intellectual (multiculturalist, globalist, pro-European, feminist, pro-LGBT, pro-immigrant, etc., etc., etc.), Greenwall also has a personal motivation for opposing the new leader: he is the nephew of the writer F. Alexander, one of the most notorious victims of Alex and his droogs in the golden age of ultraviolence.

>The plot, in short, unfolds as the titanic ideological, spiritual, and psychic confrontation between Alex and Anthony, whose consequences will obviously exert a decisive influence on the destinies of Great Britain (and, ultimately, the planet).

Do you think this would actually make a good sequel to A Clockwork Orange ?