Wonderful synopsis. I’m glad you read that book so we don’t have to. I’m not a fan of globalism either, as it seems to me to end up being the elites ruling us all.
Ukrainians are RUSSIANS and "Cossacks" even more so! Gaelic and English are two unintelligible branches of the Western languages, but "Slavonic" is universal throughout all the Russies.
Kiev is Orthodox, Slavonic Russian city, and Cossacks are generally Orthodox Russians. Maybe they want to be distinct from "Big Russia", but it is still the same language. 100% lexical similarity, slight difference in pronunciation. Adding words from other languages (Finnish, Turkic, Mongol), Latin calendar instead of Pagan names, doesn't change the language itself.
The difference is like Scots English to California English, and they are more "European", eventually it's Catholic Lithuania/Poland again. All of it sounds very grungy and backwards.
Interesting. I'm a new arrival on your Substack, having come here after reading your book review (apparently sadly truncated) of "Fistfights With Muslims" on Amazon.
I've seen Dugin referenced a good bit by thinkers on the right and others outside the mainstream, but have never read any of his work myself. Doesn't seem like I will be doing so any time soon, either.
If you're interested in a real fourth philosophy, might I suggest visiting the Natural Law Institute website and checking out the work of another American turned Ukrainian emigré (now returned to these shores once again) Curt Doolittle. His "Propertarian" system (an unfortunate name which was applied early on - and unfortunately stuck- as he began to feel his way toward solving the shortcomings and fallacies of libertarian thinkers) is truly a wonder... Once one gets past the sometimes dense and idiosyncratic language. Doolittle is a serial tech entrepreneur, a former programmer, so his prose is rarely elevating but always illuminating once one grasps his points.
He's not for the easily offended, since he lays everything out in stark terms with no attempts at obfuscation. Indeed, obfuscation would itself run counter to the Propertarian system, as it greatly concerns itself with discerning truth in as objective and empirical a sense as possible, outlines how deception has been one of the primary tools used to (unintentionally or otherwise) undermine Western civilization... The basic gist, in that regard, being that truth and purity of information are as much commons as any physical space or object, and pollution or destruction of the informational commons ought to be (and can be) punishable by law.
Anyway - glad to have found your blog here, I'm excited to read more.
Wonderful synopsis. I’m glad you read that book so we don’t have to. I’m not a fan of globalism either, as it seems to me to end up being the elites ruling us all.
wonderful. best thing I've read for quite a while. I feel enlightened.... :)
Ukrainians are RUSSIANS and "Cossacks" even more so! Gaelic and English are two unintelligible branches of the Western languages, but "Slavonic" is universal throughout all the Russies.
Kiev is Orthodox, Slavonic Russian city, and Cossacks are generally Orthodox Russians. Maybe they want to be distinct from "Big Russia", but it is still the same language. 100% lexical similarity, slight difference in pronunciation. Adding words from other languages (Finnish, Turkic, Mongol), Latin calendar instead of Pagan names, doesn't change the language itself.
The difference is like Scots English to California English, and they are more "European", eventually it's Catholic Lithuania/Poland again. All of it sounds very grungy and backwards.
Interesting. I'm a new arrival on your Substack, having come here after reading your book review (apparently sadly truncated) of "Fistfights With Muslims" on Amazon.
I've seen Dugin referenced a good bit by thinkers on the right and others outside the mainstream, but have never read any of his work myself. Doesn't seem like I will be doing so any time soon, either.
If you're interested in a real fourth philosophy, might I suggest visiting the Natural Law Institute website and checking out the work of another American turned Ukrainian emigré (now returned to these shores once again) Curt Doolittle. His "Propertarian" system (an unfortunate name which was applied early on - and unfortunately stuck- as he began to feel his way toward solving the shortcomings and fallacies of libertarian thinkers) is truly a wonder... Once one gets past the sometimes dense and idiosyncratic language. Doolittle is a serial tech entrepreneur, a former programmer, so his prose is rarely elevating but always illuminating once one grasps his points.
He's not for the easily offended, since he lays everything out in stark terms with no attempts at obfuscation. Indeed, obfuscation would itself run counter to the Propertarian system, as it greatly concerns itself with discerning truth in as objective and empirical a sense as possible, outlines how deception has been one of the primary tools used to (unintentionally or otherwise) undermine Western civilization... The basic gist, in that regard, being that truth and purity of information are as much commons as any physical space or object, and pollution or destruction of the informational commons ought to be (and can be) punishable by law.
Anyway - glad to have found your blog here, I'm excited to read more.