I scarcely know where to begin: this text is problematic on nearly every level. The first step must be to lay out the essential conceptual scheme, and then dismantle the very little, if anything, the author seems to know about Śāktism, Śaktipāta, or the so-called “Left-Hand Path.” What is attempted here is a kind of pseudo-alchemical “reconciliation” between two figures who not only oppose each other, but reject each other essentially and metaphysically.Vāmācāra (literally, “Left-Hand Practice”) does not equal Śāktism. Śāktism is the worship of Śakti as supreme divinity, a whole theological and ritual tradition encompassing multiple schools, from benign domestic worship (dakṣiṇācāra) to more transgressive forms. Vāmācāra is merely one path within the Śākta spectrum, defined by its deliberate use of ritually transgressive elements (pañcamakāra, the “five Ms”). To reduce Śāktism to Vāmācāra, as if the entire tradition were some exotic cult of taboo-breaking; is to fall into the orientalist caricatures of Avalon, Evola, and later esoteric pseudo-gnostics. The very attempt to read Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory in “tantric” or “left-hand” terms is a category error: Dugin is not a tantric guru, and his project is not a call for antinomian ritualism but for a metapolitical overcoming of modern nihilism. ... I won't expose the whole Śaktipāta and tantric stuff, I mean; the whole thing this person presents are deep misconceptions/misrepresentations. I think I have exposed the basic line of problems. Dugin wouldn’t ever say the world is shakti; he rather would say that shaktism is atavic materialism. Whether we can understand that...or not. So Javier Mileikowski is tantric... hilarious 😂. Who knows. Dugin opposed in several occasions Shaktism itself although there are elements from the Vamacara that can be accepted by Alexander Dugin. Precesely the Woke (left and right) are noth extremely shaktist: from the Cult of KAMALA Harris (all the leftist Shaktists made the esoteric war for her, just in case some names are needed, I have them) to the tantric anti-Christian nazism widely practiced in the USA rightoid circles closer to MAGA. And this brings us to the central confusion: Nick Land is not the Alexander Dugin of America. America, quite simply, has no philosophy; it can scarcely think. And those very few Americans who are capable of serious thought are neither in power nor anywhere near it. Alexander Dugin is a philosopher, a thinker of trajectory, a man of immense culture with a deep spiritual and metaphysical foundation. His work already leaves a mark in the history of ideas, whether one agrees with him or not. Nick Land, by contrast, is a digital jester, a culture’ provocateur who mistakes provocation for thinking. He is proudly ignorant, the very incarnation of what Heidegger called Machenschaft: the technological domination of being, the reduction of truth to entertainment, and of politics to spectacle. He is the perfect product of late-modern nihilism; the very nihilism Dugin seeks to overcome. It is not even clear whether Fuentes holds a university degree; if he does, his intellectual level suggests at best a graduate of the University of Memes and Superficiality. He markets himself as a political scientist and theorist, but his references are third-hand, his rhetoric childish, his intellectual horizon limited to keeping his adolescent audience amused. To compare him to Dugin is to compare refuse to a finely crafted silver chalice: the result is not to elevate the refuse but to desecrate the chalice. What this so-called “reconciliation” promotes is precisely what Heidegger warned against: the leveling of all differences, the collapse of qualitative hierarchies into a grey sameness in which a philosopher and a meme-merchant are treated as interchangeable.
It is high time that Dugin cease contaminating his thought with this mass of White American Monkeys.
If at one point the MAGA movement flirted with Russia, it was never out of any metaphysical insight or Eurasianist conviction, but simply out of electoral calculus against Biden.
The writer is a total clown.. Citing Argentinian Milei as a Tantric individual..when all he is is a psychopathic liar and opportunist who has robbed his country blind...then sold it to banksters..
Humm. I think Life and the Solution to all our problems is much simpler than we make it out to be. I suspect that part of the problem is that we have NEVER had a Christian culture anywhere. It has always been "The Bible +"something else". Even my beloved C.S. Lewis thought in terms of "The Bible + Plato".
I scarcely know where to begin: this text is problematic on nearly every level. The first step must be to lay out the essential conceptual scheme, and then dismantle the very little, if anything, the author seems to know about Śāktism, Śaktipāta, or the so-called “Left-Hand Path.” What is attempted here is a kind of pseudo-alchemical “reconciliation” between two figures who not only oppose each other, but reject each other essentially and metaphysically.Vāmācāra (literally, “Left-Hand Practice”) does not equal Śāktism. Śāktism is the worship of Śakti as supreme divinity, a whole theological and ritual tradition encompassing multiple schools, from benign domestic worship (dakṣiṇācāra) to more transgressive forms. Vāmācāra is merely one path within the Śākta spectrum, defined by its deliberate use of ritually transgressive elements (pañcamakāra, the “five Ms”). To reduce Śāktism to Vāmācāra, as if the entire tradition were some exotic cult of taboo-breaking; is to fall into the orientalist caricatures of Avalon, Evola, and later esoteric pseudo-gnostics. The very attempt to read Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory in “tantric” or “left-hand” terms is a category error: Dugin is not a tantric guru, and his project is not a call for antinomian ritualism but for a metapolitical overcoming of modern nihilism. ... I won't expose the whole Śaktipāta and tantric stuff, I mean; the whole thing this person presents are deep misconceptions/misrepresentations. I think I have exposed the basic line of problems. Dugin wouldn’t ever say the world is shakti; he rather would say that shaktism is atavic materialism. Whether we can understand that...or not. So Javier Mileikowski is tantric... hilarious 😂. Who knows. Dugin opposed in several occasions Shaktism itself although there are elements from the Vamacara that can be accepted by Alexander Dugin. Precesely the Woke (left and right) are noth extremely shaktist: from the Cult of KAMALA Harris (all the leftist Shaktists made the esoteric war for her, just in case some names are needed, I have them) to the tantric anti-Christian nazism widely practiced in the USA rightoid circles closer to MAGA. And this brings us to the central confusion: Nick Land is not the Alexander Dugin of America. America, quite simply, has no philosophy; it can scarcely think. And those very few Americans who are capable of serious thought are neither in power nor anywhere near it. Alexander Dugin is a philosopher, a thinker of trajectory, a man of immense culture with a deep spiritual and metaphysical foundation. His work already leaves a mark in the history of ideas, whether one agrees with him or not. Nick Land, by contrast, is a digital jester, a culture’ provocateur who mistakes provocation for thinking. He is proudly ignorant, the very incarnation of what Heidegger called Machenschaft: the technological domination of being, the reduction of truth to entertainment, and of politics to spectacle. He is the perfect product of late-modern nihilism; the very nihilism Dugin seeks to overcome. It is not even clear whether Fuentes holds a university degree; if he does, his intellectual level suggests at best a graduate of the University of Memes and Superficiality. He markets himself as a political scientist and theorist, but his references are third-hand, his rhetoric childish, his intellectual horizon limited to keeping his adolescent audience amused. To compare him to Dugin is to compare refuse to a finely crafted silver chalice: the result is not to elevate the refuse but to desecrate the chalice. What this so-called “reconciliation” promotes is precisely what Heidegger warned against: the leveling of all differences, the collapse of qualitative hierarchies into a grey sameness in which a philosopher and a meme-merchant are treated as interchangeable.
It is high time that Dugin cease contaminating his thought with this mass of White American Monkeys.
If at one point the MAGA movement flirted with Russia, it was never out of any metaphysical insight or Eurasianist conviction, but simply out of electoral calculus against Biden.
The writer is a total clown.. Citing Argentinian Milei as a Tantric individual..when all he is is a psychopathic liar and opportunist who has robbed his country blind...then sold it to banksters..
Humm. I think Life and the Solution to all our problems is much simpler than we make it out to be. I suspect that part of the problem is that we have NEVER had a Christian culture anywhere. It has always been "The Bible +"something else". Even my beloved C.S. Lewis thought in terms of "The Bible + Plato".