This Is Not an Issue for Chalcedonian Orthodoxy

No third country has the right to veto Ukraine’s ambitions to join NATO#orthodox_times https://t.co/NAjHfmYFPY

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) October 19, 2021

What if Modern Democratic Ideology Was Always a Mask Though?

A tool of the oligarchs?

A culture that has decayed into the protection and production of oligarchs produces and protects oligarchs - this risks the being fundamental expression of modern democratic ideology https://t.co/n4Xz7DbZIN

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) August 19, 2021

The East

Milbank the Imperialist

I don’t believe in the nation state. I think it’s too liberal and Whig. Individualism writ large. ‘Imperium’ integrating different cultures round a more universal one is inherently more communitarian. Britain has been such an imperium for hundreds of years.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 13, 2021

A Consequence of the Fear of Death and Sin

The more history of the nation state & of empire that I read the less convinced I am that there was ever really a nation state as we commonly understand it. The vast majority of nation states are themselves imperial amalgamations - Empire is the predominant history of mankind

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) July 3, 2021

Can't agree with the rest of his reflections:

Paradoxically it is imperialism in the sense of extending rule across different peoples and administrating a multiplicity that gives us a genuine possibility of multiculturalism and peaceful diversity

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) July 3, 2021

To complicate matters one has had especially in the modern period imperial nationalisms which are particularly brutal - but violence seems to accompany all formulations of empire - it’s just that Empire does also engender peace.

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) July 3, 2021

What Empire Can Manage a Personal Autocracy?

Is this distinction really that useful?

The Habsburgs sustained their rule by way of a bureaucratic autocracy, not a personal one. https://t.co/kP20cez5mE

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) February 25, 2021

Eastern Christian Books: An "Eastern" Christology?

Eastern Christian Books: An "Eastern" Christology?

Liberation theology that is grounded in the Eastern Church Fathers?

Herald Press: Jesus of the East: Reclaiming the Gospel for the Wounded by Phuc Lu - Google Books

Milbank Said Something Recently Too

America is a mixture between a third world and a first world entity - it’s a hybrid of the most advanced and the most primitive behaviour - it’s elite live like nobody else in the modern world and it’s poor are treated worse than almost any other nation https://t.co/YSiORacqQb

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) May 31, 2020

Beneficiaries of a long-lived empire and its wealth really shouldn't be making judgments about other empires that haven't done as well, especially when that empire has a larger population that is also more ethnically diverse.

Catholic Intellectuals

I remember the comments made by many of the "conservative" ones in academia in 2015 and 2016 on candidate Trump. Probably they had little or no experience in politics or in real positions of authority. Being heads of departments and committees doesn't count - such departmental functions were handed to them by an institution and while academics engage in office politics, that is a shadow of tribal or communal raising men up to be leaders and the associated customs. I did not hear any of these Catholic academics who were not critical of Donald Trump and his behavior, which was the basis for their claim that he was unsuitable to be the Chief Executive of the Federal Government. They disagreed as to which of the other Republican contenders was the best candidate but they agreed that any of them would be preferable to Trump. They did not understand why Trump was needed to address certain questions facing the United states

Even among academics there is AMOG jockeying going on, though the basis of it is supposed "intellectual" power, but really is that intellectual power anything more than being a bookworm? How many of them would be able to admit that Trump would be more attractive to women than themselves?

Could any of them really inspire other men to follow them in battle or to build a community? How many of them read Aristotle's Politics and think they are worthy of being the intended audience for that lecture, of even better than that?

Such conversations among Catholic academics were probably not rare, and I felt revulsion at Catholic academia as a result of these experiences.

The Centenary of the End of the Great War

Kyrie eleison.

The last deaths of World War I
Remembrance Day: The legacy of First World War poetry, from Wilfred Owen to Siegfried Sassoon

Of course there is the LGQBTXYZ slant... ‘Youth that dying touch my lips to song’: The poetry of men who loved men in the First World War

Journey's End

*spoiler warning*

More Chinese Propaganda

Breitbart: Film Glorifying Emperor Xi Becomes China’s Highest-Grossing Documentary



"But!" Does this article quality as a nice try? Comparative Analysis of Eastern and Western Tyranny

Sandro Magister: How To Be a "Creative Minority" Today. The Example of the Christians of the First Three Centuries

But does he overstate the difference between the Christians and non-Christians living in the same society? Was secession a possibility for them in the Roman Empire?

Related: Saint Benedict in the 21st Century. But "La Civiltà Cattolica" Condemns Him to the Stake

Empire

Don't like the acceptance of imperium as a necessity in the struggle for life, but I do like the martial spirit of the essay.

With Our Children, We Will Conquer by Jacoby Sommer

A pro-natalist attitude is so fascist!

No Chinese Republicanism Here

Why shouldn't the Chi-Coms make use of historical movies depicting loyal servants of the empire in a good light?

Difficult to Disagree with the Sentiment

Native European Beauty

Follow me (@listentothesevoices) for more ❤

A post shared by Listen To These Voices (@listentothesevoices) on Apr 4, 2017 at 7:12pm PDT

The same sort of sentiment that the following is meant to provoke -- and to be exploited by those seeking power and conquest?
"Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein"

The Small Nation Manifesto by Thomas Naylor

A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power. Leopold Kohr Breakdown of… »

Wariness of a Strong International Authority

Empire and its Discontents
The push for more comprehensive global governance raises many questions, including "Who will control it and ensure that it deals rationally and effectively with the problems assigned to it?"
By James Kalb

Who Succeeds Caesar?

Medievalists.net: Rome in the imperial idea of the 14th century: The age of emperor Lewis the Bavarian

Items of Interest, 12 April 2012

Daniel Larison, Subsidiarity and Rerum Novarum

Mary Ann Glendon, What's Wrong With Rights

Peter Hitchens, An Argument for Punishment

Paul Gottfried, Derb's National Rebuke

PJB, Obama's Zimmerman Problem

Juan Cole, The Iran Conundrum
Gary Leupp, The Irrationality of the Case against Iran’s Nuclear Program
Philip Giraldi, The Babylonian Captivity of Washington

Judge Napolitan, What If the Government Rejects the Constitution?

Liberty Classroom

Matthew Feeney, A New Grassroots Currency Hits the Market in Greece

John Michael Greer, America: The Gasoline War



Farming:
How to design more resilient, food producing systems (without money and fossil fuels)

Why Don't Farmers Just Do It?

Diet and Health:
On 'Exercising Like a Caveman': Commentary by Erwan Le Corre

Catholic:
Something on Cardinal Manning.

Brian O'Neel, author of 39 New Saints You Should Know on Morning Air, talking about depression. (mp3)
A Priest Who Had Depression

Bishops Issue Statement on Religious Liberty
Our First Most Cherished Liberty

Is SSPX homecoming imminent?

History:
Skeletons found at mass burial site in Oxford could be ’10th-century Viking raiders’

Feminism:
Women’s Unrealistic Online Standards Are Like Ice Cream
The Feminism Sh*t Test


More footage of the Mike Wallace interview of Margaret Sanger.

Author sees sexual revolution at root of women’s discontent
Feminism was the problem, the sexual revolution was just one moment in its history.

Minimalist Shoes:
Vibram FiveFingers Trek Flip Preview

Music:
Mark O'Connor, The Violin is So Cool It Has Two Names
Dec. 2010: Rachel Podger: Between baroque and a hard place

Misc:
Best Ranger TV
MALAYSIAN PARANGS
Brazilian Special Ops

Chris Costa: First Spear Tubes, 6/12 spotted in the wild…