Wow, there's quite a lot to digest here! As a Jew, I don't feel comfortable "liking" the post, per se, but I do think you're confronting some important issues that really should be discussed more openly than they are.
I hesitate to argue the established facts of the Holocaust, as I'm well aware that most such conversations turn into an endless rabbit hole. Nevertheless, I will point out that the assertion that a European population of ten million Jews would dwindle to less than two million by 1938 largely as a result of outmigration utterly fails to take into account the strict restrictions that virtually all countries had on Jewish immigration. As an example, in 1939, the MS St. Louis, with its 900 Jewish passengers seeking refuge from Europe, was turned away by multiple countries, including the USA. If 900 Jews couldn't find safe harbor anywhere in the world in 1939, it's absurd to suggest that millions of them would have been absorbed without comment by the nations of the world in the preceding years.
Setting that aside, I find your doctrinal exploration quite fascinating. I think it's worth noting that BOTH mainstream Christianity and Judaism have been largely hijacked by what you call Spiritual Bolshevists. Regrettably, the message that the Left is the ideology of caring, intelligent people has been effectively marketed to American Jewry, which - quite contrary to its own interests - supports exactly the policies that have led to a skyrocketing incidents of virulent anti-Semitism, particularly on college campuses. While there are plenty of anti-Communist Jews (former Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate Spike Cohen is a good example), we are, at least for now, in the minority.
Along the same lines, it's relatively easy to cherry-pick statements, such as the one you found, that reflect a somewhat aggressive approach to ethnic separatism from the Jewish perspective. To me, this smacks of "reactive abuse," which is a phenomenon in which an abuser finally provokes a violent reaction from the person they've been abusing, and then use that reaction as "evidence" that their victim is crazy and/or the perpetrator in the situation. In this case, following the collective trauma of the Holocaust, it might be understandable why some Jewish thinkers would feel that assimilation was a mistake, and that perhaps it would be best to acknowledge deep-seated cultural differences that might cause tension in future.
By and large, I think you and I have a lot of common ground regarding the symptoms of our very sick and dysfunctional culture. I don't know if we would ever agree on what the underlying diseases are, but I look forward to reading more of your work.
Thanks for putting a lot of time into this series. You cover millennia of activity with reasonable concision. I sense there is truth in what you've written, though I don't agree with all of it. I'm working my way through it. I'm learning from your work and very much appreciate you including sources.
I think there were more factors in Rome's fall than in Christendom, and more to the willful destruction of United States origin stories. The banker thesis likely has some truth to it as well, yet the world is a complex place and singular explanations are rarely correct. I doubt this feedback surprises you.
Surprising that you don't mention the prominent role Jewish intellectual extremists played in the Frankfurt School of Post Modern thought. Not surprising that a large ethnic group has made significant contributions to society both good and bad.
Have you studied and written about the forces behind WWI? Growing up in the US, neither its causes or the USSR's history were covered in much depth. The latter I've since studied.
"They were the last Romans to grow up in a world that simply could not imagine a Roman world dominated by a Christian majority. This critical failure of imagination is completely understandable. They lived through a time of dramatic change that they could neither anticipate nor fully understand as it was unfolding."
GM: sorry for the late intrusion, but I think you followed the wrong historiography.
For me, it is quite a given that:
1. Rome was the true destroyer of scientific and religious Hellenism: Caesar destroyed the Library, not Cyril - for reference, there is the whole corpus of Lucio Russo;
2. stoicism and Hellenism is the true origin of Christianity: as much as people love to remember Celsus, they forgot Lucian, that wrote a similar book against a cynic, because they were both sophist; I challenge you to find differences between Julian (and Porphyrios) and John Chrysostom, except for mythology. There is a reason why Socrates and Christ are so similiar is because Costin Pervert is wrong.
I realize this may seem like low-hanging fruit, but do you have any reservations about quoting from an *actual* neo-Nazi site, Cesar Tort's https://westsdarkesthour.com, complete with swastikas and Hitler eulogies? I'm not baiting, I actually want to quote from it too, the same essay on foundational myth, & therefore it's a practical question. Do you know much about the site and its author? There seem to be so many traps one can fall into when pursuing this line of research.
Wow, there's quite a lot to digest here! As a Jew, I don't feel comfortable "liking" the post, per se, but I do think you're confronting some important issues that really should be discussed more openly than they are.
I hesitate to argue the established facts of the Holocaust, as I'm well aware that most such conversations turn into an endless rabbit hole. Nevertheless, I will point out that the assertion that a European population of ten million Jews would dwindle to less than two million by 1938 largely as a result of outmigration utterly fails to take into account the strict restrictions that virtually all countries had on Jewish immigration. As an example, in 1939, the MS St. Louis, with its 900 Jewish passengers seeking refuge from Europe, was turned away by multiple countries, including the USA. If 900 Jews couldn't find safe harbor anywhere in the world in 1939, it's absurd to suggest that millions of them would have been absorbed without comment by the nations of the world in the preceding years.
Setting that aside, I find your doctrinal exploration quite fascinating. I think it's worth noting that BOTH mainstream Christianity and Judaism have been largely hijacked by what you call Spiritual Bolshevists. Regrettably, the message that the Left is the ideology of caring, intelligent people has been effectively marketed to American Jewry, which - quite contrary to its own interests - supports exactly the policies that have led to a skyrocketing incidents of virulent anti-Semitism, particularly on college campuses. While there are plenty of anti-Communist Jews (former Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate Spike Cohen is a good example), we are, at least for now, in the minority.
Along the same lines, it's relatively easy to cherry-pick statements, such as the one you found, that reflect a somewhat aggressive approach to ethnic separatism from the Jewish perspective. To me, this smacks of "reactive abuse," which is a phenomenon in which an abuser finally provokes a violent reaction from the person they've been abusing, and then use that reaction as "evidence" that their victim is crazy and/or the perpetrator in the situation. In this case, following the collective trauma of the Holocaust, it might be understandable why some Jewish thinkers would feel that assimilation was a mistake, and that perhaps it would be best to acknowledge deep-seated cultural differences that might cause tension in future.
By and large, I think you and I have a lot of common ground regarding the symptoms of our very sick and dysfunctional culture. I don't know if we would ever agree on what the underlying diseases are, but I look forward to reading more of your work.
Thanks for putting a lot of time into this series. You cover millennia of activity with reasonable concision. I sense there is truth in what you've written, though I don't agree with all of it. I'm working my way through it. I'm learning from your work and very much appreciate you including sources.
I think there were more factors in Rome's fall than in Christendom, and more to the willful destruction of United States origin stories. The banker thesis likely has some truth to it as well, yet the world is a complex place and singular explanations are rarely correct. I doubt this feedback surprises you.
Surprising that you don't mention the prominent role Jewish intellectual extremists played in the Frankfurt School of Post Modern thought. Not surprising that a large ethnic group has made significant contributions to society both good and bad.
Have you studied and written about the forces behind WWI? Growing up in the US, neither its causes or the USSR's history were covered in much depth. The latter I've since studied.
"They were the last Romans to grow up in a world that simply could not imagine a Roman world dominated by a Christian majority. This critical failure of imagination is completely understandable. They lived through a time of dramatic change that they could neither anticipate nor fully understand as it was unfolding."
This fucking burns
GM: sorry for the late intrusion, but I think you followed the wrong historiography.
For me, it is quite a given that:
1. Rome was the true destroyer of scientific and religious Hellenism: Caesar destroyed the Library, not Cyril - for reference, there is the whole corpus of Lucio Russo;
2. stoicism and Hellenism is the true origin of Christianity: as much as people love to remember Celsus, they forgot Lucian, that wrote a similar book against a cynic, because they were both sophist; I challenge you to find differences between Julian (and Porphyrios) and John Chrysostom, except for mythology. There is a reason why Socrates and Christ are so similiar is because Costin Pervert is wrong.
The fight between the warrior and the priest is the most common fight in human history: https://mansworldmag.online/an-elite-apart/
I realize this may seem like low-hanging fruit, but do you have any reservations about quoting from an *actual* neo-Nazi site, Cesar Tort's https://westsdarkesthour.com, complete with swastikas and Hitler eulogies? I'm not baiting, I actually want to quote from it too, the same essay on foundational myth, & therefore it's a practical question. Do you know much about the site and its author? There seem to be so many traps one can fall into when pursuing this line of research.