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The Faustian and Eternal Man

12 May 2023 11 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Despite knowing what we are, what do we hold onto that drives us?   Reading Faust has been, I think, a rewarding challenge. Goethe’s work is akin to a musical fugue. Especially in Faust II, he develops a final form, built upon preceding structures,...

Bit-Lit

12 May 2023 2 minute read 1 comment LearnMeGood

Hello, True Believers, and welcome once again to a ridiculously silly post by yours truly, The Crypto Idiot.  If you like my posts, or at the very least are not outrageously enraged by them, please consider telling all your friends, your family membe...

Creation and Destruction: Faustian Man and His Works

10 May 2023 12 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Between struggling in pain to creatively manifest new forms and contenting yourself with pleasure while generating nothing, which would you honestly choose after arduously thinking through what both entail? As I stated on Monday, the Eighth of May,...

A Mirror's Image: Faust and Modern Man

8 May 2023 9 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Has Man ever asked himself why he’s worth saving? This weekend I started reading Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The version I’m reading has been translated into English by Stuart Atkins and has a brief introduction by David E. Wellbery. Wellbe...

The Managers' Totalitarian State

5 Apr 2023 13 minute read 2 comments MatTehCat

Big Sister is watching you.In my post on Monday, the third of April, I explored why the power shift from a capitalist to a managerial society occurred according to James Burnham. What I did not make clear was who the managers were or are. In today’s...

The Elites' America

29 Mar 2023 13 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Every great society is defined by only a few great men whose character is so exemplary that the majority must align themselves with them or falter. On Monday, the 27th of March, I began reviewing Burnham's work, Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom....

Through Machiavelli's Eyes

27 Mar 2023 11 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

This past Friday, I began reading a book by James Burnham, published in 1943: The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom. The Machiavellians, compared to Suicide of the West, is a little shorter but is very interesting. This book roughly begins in Medi...

A Game of Chess in the Park

24 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

The Liberal is disturbed by grass. That sounds ridiculous but rings true when you think about it. I am coming to the end of James Burnham’s Suicide of the West, and it’s clear that the Liberal is plagued by his inability to detach from the abstract,...

Conservatives, or the Liberal's Descendants

22 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

The Left know who they are. As I was eating lunch the other day, I forget if I was listening to a podcast or if there was a T.V. on in the background, I overheard someone say that the Left and Right do not know who they are. I am very skeptical of th...

At the end of the world (poetry Andrey Golubin)

22 Mar 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

When you come to the edge of the worldWalking a hundred miles through the desertYou will beg for mercyAbout a new sip of fresh strength. And the strings will stretch famouslySouls lost in the world,In which it is so empty, so damp,As if in a coffin,...