“Nietzsche was the first to draw a frightening picture of the modern world, which has been relentlessly repeated by everyone ever since: the collapse of culture: education is replaced by empty knowledge; spiritual substance — by the universal facade of fake life; boredom is drowned out by drugs of all kinds and thrills; every living spiritual germ is suppressed by the noise and rumble of the illusory spirit; everyone talks, but no one listens; everything decays in the flow of words; everything is blabbed and betrayed. None other than Nietzsche showed the desert of the mad race for profit; showed the meaning of the machine and the mechanization of labor; showed the meaning of the emerging phenomenon — the masses. But all this is for Nietzsche in the foreground, a ripple on the surface. Today, “when the whole earth is trembling, when everything is cracking at the seams,” the main events take place in the depths, and what we observe are only consequences; a resident of a cozy age of calm and complacent bourgeoisie, Nietzsche writes with a shudder of genuine horror about what no one has yet noticed: the main event is that “God is dead”. “Here is the monstrous news that will not reach the consciousness of Europeans until a few centuries from now; but then — then it will long seem to them that things have lost their reality…”. “The rise of nihilism,” Nietzsche predicts, “will be the history of the next two centuries. Our whole European culture has long been moving with agonizing tension, with trembling and grinding, increasing from decade to decade, toward catastrophe; not moving calmly, but convulsively, in rapid spurts, as if by force: “I wish it would end sooner rather than later, if only to avoid waking up, because it is so terrible to wake up and come to your senses”… Whereas for Christianity the general course of history was predetermined and the question of the salvation of the soul remained open for each individual, for Nietzsche the direction of the general process is in question: in which direction it will go depends on the will and activity of man. Hegel refused to pose the question of the future; Marx urged to hasten the coming of what was already coming by virtue of necessity, which, as it seemed to him, was irrefutably proven by his science; but Nietzsche saw in the future the most terrible danger: man can perish, can become an ape again, if at the last moment he does not succeed in decisively changing the direction of history.” — Karl Jaspers
“Progress is pure illusion. It affects only the sphere of matter, while the spirit is inexorably degenerating. What our contemporaries pass off as achievements are in fact shameful vices — rejection of religion as a prejudice, amoralism as an overcoming of complexes, contempt for the past as arrogant ignorance, stupidity elevated to a norm. Reality becomes ghostly. Aristocratic ideals oppose the false ideals of liberalism; they are replaced by the lowbrow tastes of the crowds — the market and entertainment, social conformism and intellectual anarchy. Rationalism, criticalism, relativism and all such mutilated trends carry a profane element that has completely permeated the modern world. The end of the modern world is but the end of illusion.” — René Guénon
Was in Limoges this time last year, part of a six-week, 13-country business trip for the development of a live cinema production, "Death. War. Poets"., to take place in Péronne, France, along the banks of the river Somme, in November 2027.
As for the project itself, consider:
Death. War. Poets. follows three of the greatest voices of World War I — Wilfred Owen (British), Ernst Jünger (German), and Charles Péguy (French) — into the Somme trenches of France, and then accompanies the actors who portray them onto the stone range of the present day, where each confronts hostile forces, personal demons, and the enduring Spirit of Death.
Manalive Media Group's storytelling innovation will bring this poetic drama of sin, struggle, and transformation to life as a live cinema event — realized as a movie happening in real time.
Perhaps of interest. Regardless, continued success in your good endeavors.
That's 100% BS, Thomas. Not impeccable at all. Just salon revoltionnaries who are so in love with their bellybutton! ;D
Yesterday? Just a bunch of thugs looting. Nothing to with any form of deprivation as they are neither deprived from cars nor the internet. France's suburbs are by far better off than rural France.
Yesterday’s riots (in big cities only) are a political operation comparable to Black Lives Matter, set in motion six months before a presidential election. The central bloc, made up of all the legacy parties, is trying to discredit Jean-Luc Mélenchon in order to get its own candidate into the runoff. David Lisnard’s sudden appearance on the scene is proof that this central bloc has no electoral solution.
What’s a stake is the run-off, yet by letting rioters loot, Emmanuel Mcron and his government are pushing towards Marine Le Pen’s election at the first round.
And then there’s the establishment, terrified at the thought that the banlieues, populated overwhelmingly by honest, hardworking people who are struggling so badly they can no longer keep the fridge full, might take to the streets. So the riots are a way to keep'em confined, as they do not condone looting and will not loot.
The overwhelming majority of French voters are waiting for the presidential election. Whoever is elected will have about thirty days to show that change is real. Failing that, all of peripheral France, the France of the countryside, the small towns and the banlieues, will be out in the streets, pitchforks in hand.
“Nietzsche was the first to draw a frightening picture of the modern world, which has been relentlessly repeated by everyone ever since: the collapse of culture: education is replaced by empty knowledge; spiritual substance — by the universal facade of fake life; boredom is drowned out by drugs of all kinds and thrills; every living spiritual germ is suppressed by the noise and rumble of the illusory spirit; everyone talks, but no one listens; everything decays in the flow of words; everything is blabbed and betrayed. None other than Nietzsche showed the desert of the mad race for profit; showed the meaning of the machine and the mechanization of labor; showed the meaning of the emerging phenomenon — the masses. But all this is for Nietzsche in the foreground, a ripple on the surface. Today, “when the whole earth is trembling, when everything is cracking at the seams,” the main events take place in the depths, and what we observe are only consequences; a resident of a cozy age of calm and complacent bourgeoisie, Nietzsche writes with a shudder of genuine horror about what no one has yet noticed: the main event is that “God is dead”. “Here is the monstrous news that will not reach the consciousness of Europeans until a few centuries from now; but then — then it will long seem to them that things have lost their reality…”. “The rise of nihilism,” Nietzsche predicts, “will be the history of the next two centuries. Our whole European culture has long been moving with agonizing tension, with trembling and grinding, increasing from decade to decade, toward catastrophe; not moving calmly, but convulsively, in rapid spurts, as if by force: “I wish it would end sooner rather than later, if only to avoid waking up, because it is so terrible to wake up and come to your senses”… Whereas for Christianity the general course of history was predetermined and the question of the salvation of the soul remained open for each individual, for Nietzsche the direction of the general process is in question: in which direction it will go depends on the will and activity of man. Hegel refused to pose the question of the future; Marx urged to hasten the coming of what was already coming by virtue of necessity, which, as it seemed to him, was irrefutably proven by his science; but Nietzsche saw in the future the most terrible danger: man can perish, can become an ape again, if at the last moment he does not succeed in decisively changing the direction of history.” — Karl Jaspers
“Progress is pure illusion. It affects only the sphere of matter, while the spirit is inexorably degenerating. What our contemporaries pass off as achievements are in fact shameful vices — rejection of religion as a prejudice, amoralism as an overcoming of complexes, contempt for the past as arrogant ignorance, stupidity elevated to a norm. Reality becomes ghostly. Aristocratic ideals oppose the false ideals of liberalism; they are replaced by the lowbrow tastes of the crowds — the market and entertainment, social conformism and intellectual anarchy. Rationalism, criticalism, relativism and all such mutilated trends carry a profane element that has completely permeated the modern world. The end of the modern world is but the end of illusion.” — René Guénon
If progress is an illusion, so is inexorable degeneracy. It’s never one or the other, unless you need to write an impassioned essay.
Pithy, poignant, and profound—thank you.
Was in Limoges this time last year, part of a six-week, 13-country business trip for the development of a live cinema production, "Death. War. Poets"., to take place in Péronne, France, along the banks of the river Somme, in November 2027.
As for the project itself, consider:
Death. War. Poets. follows three of the greatest voices of World War I — Wilfred Owen (British), Ernst Jünger (German), and Charles Péguy (French) — into the Somme trenches of France, and then accompanies the actors who portray them onto the stone range of the present day, where each confronts hostile forces, personal demons, and the enduring Spirit of Death.
Manalive Media Group's storytelling innovation will bring this poetic drama of sin, struggle, and transformation to life as a live cinema event — realized as a movie happening in real time.
Perhaps of interest. Regardless, continued success in your good endeavors.
C’mon. An entire article without one mention of the elephant in the room?
No shit, thanks Sherlock! French youth, aka Muslims
wow, Thomas , I felt emotional intensity like in the beging of communist manifesto
That's 100% BS, Thomas. Not impeccable at all. Just salon revoltionnaries who are so in love with their bellybutton! ;D
Yesterday? Just a bunch of thugs looting. Nothing to with any form of deprivation as they are neither deprived from cars nor the internet. France's suburbs are by far better off than rural France.
Yesterday’s riots (in big cities only) are a political operation comparable to Black Lives Matter, set in motion six months before a presidential election. The central bloc, made up of all the legacy parties, is trying to discredit Jean-Luc Mélenchon in order to get its own candidate into the runoff. David Lisnard’s sudden appearance on the scene is proof that this central bloc has no electoral solution.
What’s a stake is the run-off, yet by letting rioters loot, Emmanuel Mcron and his government are pushing towards Marine Le Pen’s election at the first round.
And then there’s the establishment, terrified at the thought that the banlieues, populated overwhelmingly by honest, hardworking people who are struggling so badly they can no longer keep the fridge full, might take to the streets. So the riots are a way to keep'em confined, as they do not condone looting and will not loot.
The overwhelming majority of French voters are waiting for the presidential election. Whoever is elected will have about thirty days to show that change is real. Failing that, all of peripheral France, the France of the countryside, the small towns and the banlieues, will be out in the streets, pitchforks in hand.
Then, and then only, may there a revolution.
https://www.eclaireur.eu/p/frances-quiet-riot