*** In the Myth of the Cave as told in Plato’s Republic, a prisoner of the cave of illusions escapes and comes to know the true reality of the outside world and the heavens above, only to realize that he must make a return… pic.twitter.com/J0wbCerQT5
“In the Myth of the Cave as told in Plato’s Republic, a prisoner of the cave of illusions escapes and comes to know the true reality of the outside world and the heavens above, only to realize that he must make a return descent to enlighten his fellow humans — at the risk of sorrow and even death.
Socrates insists that the true philosopher and just statesman does not rest content in the bliss of ascended knowledge and harmony, but dares to live, think, teach, and struggle in the world of illusions, here and now.
Eschatological Optimism, the posthumous philosophical testimony of Daria Platonova Dugina, explores and develops this ancient idea amidst the overwhelming kaleidoscope of the cave of the modern world.
Engaging a vast spectrum of philosophical, theological, sociological, and literary perspectives, Dugina shows that the decision to decipher and face the illusions of our “reality” is only the beginning of an intellectual, existential, spiritual, and political journey which diverse thinkers, ancient and modern, have dared to undertake.
At once a philosophical theory, a hermeneutic lens, and a way of life, “Eschatological Optimism” is a watchword, orientation, and mission that inspires one to dare to know, live and die for the higher principles that forever shine through and beyond the cave.
Daria Platonova Dugina (1992-2022) was a Russian philosopher, journalist, political analyst, and artist. Dugina studied philosophy at Moscow State University and Bordeaux Montaigne University, specializing in Neoplatonism, and was an active member of the International Eurasian Movement. Her life was tragically cut short by a car bomb on the night of 20 August 2022. Eschatological Optimism is the first volume of Dugina’s posthumously collected works to appear in English.“
Украине столько всего дали, а ей оказывается, сигнала не хватает для полного счастья 🤔 pic.twitter.com/DxY1Iuwges
A masterclass on Alexander Dugin's book The Fourth Political Theory, including supplementary materials from other translated and untranslated writings.https://t.co/YToEq3MIuG
It feels like something bad is coming in the UK doesn't it? Something we don't need. The far left and others being rabidly hateful and uncontrollable by the police and the far right becoming empowered.
None. Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Stepney Green etc. are muslim zones. Soon you won't find any white people there. Even in some boroughs with 70-80% white population schools have no more than 10-15% of white kids. London is lost and fucked.
The reason Russia launched the Special Military Operation was precisely to negate NATO on Russian borders. The war will continue until NATO pack off and leave Ukraine and ceasing being a threat on Russian borders. The condition number 1 for any type of deal freezing the conflict…
The part that strikes me the most is North Korea— 6,645 tanks. They can have only one purpose— to strike, in a massive armoured spearhead, southward, towards Seoul.
Today is one year since Daria Dugina was murdered by Ukraine. Very terrible and I always remember her as a very great journalist. We were together in the Azov Steel Factory, last year. Although, I only knew her not that long, she made an impression. R.I.P. pic.twitter.com/P6Kgex141N
I have very little interest in football or other organized mass spectator sports. I have, however, had a few oblique thoughts about the women’s football situation, and the so-called “lionesses” (England women’s football squad).
Though women’s football goes back about 100 years, it has never had the high profile of the men’s game. The same is true of women’s cricket and most other sports.
Now, however, in the UK and other countries too, you have to be lucky to avoid it in the msm. This has come about rather suddenly, and seems to be being promoted as the latest mass “experience”.
One mass “experience” (eg “Black Lives Matter”, “Ukraine”, “Covid” and so on) replaces another, in a never-ceasing chain.
The period 2022-2055 is one in which the transnational secret rulers of the “West” are pushing certain trends very hard: a multiracial mass population in Europe, North America, Australasia etc (as part of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan); globalism generally; globalized finance-capitalism; hostility to white Northern European people, culture, and way of life; “bio-security” (inc. microchip implants). “net zero” (inc. “15-minute cities”, anti-car campaign etc).
“LGBTQXYZ” too. It is noteworthy that a high proportion of women professional footballers seem to be lesbian, if the UK tabloid Press is correct.
Part of the transnational conspiracy seems to concentrate on the abolition of anything even resembling the traditional male/female binary. Thus the constant promotion of the “trans” nonsense, which has exploded in the West, mainly in the past few years. Thus one sees not only some female goalkeeper swearing loudly on pitch, but being widely acclaimed for displaying what until recently would have been described as “toxic male aggression”…
As said, I myself have little personal interest in mass spectator sports, and likewise no great objection to people (men or women) playing sports as they wish. My interest lies in what is behind phenomena such as the present promotion of the “lionesses” team etc.
Can you confirm if you will, or won't, be uploading your conversation with Jack Monroe?
I can understand if you've been asked not to do so, or have decided against it yourself. It must make an interesting dilemma for a journalist in light of knowing the scrutiny it will attract.
…and, as of today, a hard core of 383 utter mugs is still sending the “grifter”/fraudster some money every single month, via Patreon.
The interesting is this is how they reacted when their own staff said something is wrong. Imagine how they react when it is a patient saying the same. In those cases the staff back up the management. The NHS is not fit for purpose, cares only about itself and should be abolished.
Bravo to you for speaking up for us all, I hold York NHS trust in very low regard having seen my father in a geriatric ward many years ago dehydrated basic care ignored by nurses behind a desk. We got him out. I hear no good reports of this trust, I didn't complain as pointless
I do not agree about removal of pensions (in this case or any case) but dismissals are probably in order.
The NHS principle of “free at point of use” is one that I support, but it is clear that the NHS has gone astray in many areas, particularly the whole administrative area.
Even today, you hear people claim that only the UK has proper free health care. In fact, many other countries do healthcare better, not least France, where hospital wards (as distinct from one or two-person rooms) are now almost unknown, and where care is often far better as well.
I knew an late middle-age/elderly couple in Brittany (when I lived there for several years). They both had serious health problems. The husband of that couple said that, on telling the equivalent of an NHS consultant what medications he had been on in the UK, the doctor had nodded and replied, “I think that we can do a little better than that“… Does that not speak volumes?
I might add that the couple in question, who lived quite near me in Finistere-Nord, about an hour’s drive, 43 miles or 69 km, from Brest (where the hospital was), used to be ferried by taxi (paid for by the health service) to and from that hospital. Imagine that on the NHS…
There has to be partly a step back (eg reinstating the Matron position in hospitals), and partly a step or two forward (in listening to patients and putting patients first), in the NHS.
At present, the NHS, like the police, the court system, the school system, the university system, the BBC, the Foreign Office (etc), and various other parts of UK society, is just not fulfilling its proper function much of the time.
There’s something very odd about changing speed limits to 20mph all over London (and Wales) at the same time as rolling out ULEZ in theory to reduce emissions. The evidence suggests that driving slower at 20mph *increases* toxic emissions...”
Seems like a fair question to ask:
If reducing emissions is really the goal, justifying huge daily fines on older non-compliant cars, then why are we introducing a speed limit that increases emissions and logjams?
That is because (like ULEZ), the programme to get everyone driving at 20 mph is only superficially about fuel emissions. The real or hidden agenda is the “electric cars only” agenda.
What is the real agenda? First, stop the most polluting cars being allowed to drive, then stop all diesel/petrol cars, then only allow certain types of electric vehicle on the roads (at first in London and other large cities, then nationwide, and even in remote countryside).
Result? Most people unable to afford to buy cars or to drive at all. They will then have to travel on monitored and controlled public transport (facilitated by under-skin microchips, in the end), or stay corralled in “15-minute-cities” etc, which will develop into (again) highly monitored and controlled zones almost like open prisons, or somewhere between normal neighbourhoods and the latter.
Convenience and social pressure will tend to “nudge” acceptance of “the rules”. Many may find the new social order not too bad— lower crime, no commute, easy shopping etc. Those who do not easily accept the bridle may be sanctioned in various ways via what may develop into a Chinese-style “social credit” system of control.
The most staunch of dissidents will then be removed, and will no doubt suffer the penalties usually visited upon such people by totalitarian states.
As with the 2020-2021 “Covid” hysteria (now being tried on again…), there is at least one hidden agenda.
Khan tried to ‘silence’ scientists who questioned #Ulez claims, emails show https://t.co/x13kt5XgDX Correspondence shows deputy ‘really disappointed’ that Imperial College publicised findings questioning effectiveness of scheme #Labour are authoritarian #bbcnews#c4news#wato
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Lucy Letby caused "acute pain" to her victims, judge Mr Justice Goss says, as the former nurse is sentenced for the murder of seven babies at a UK hospital https://t.co/Rxe9cA20EWpic.twitter.com/trDXvkwICe
Such a case certainly kicks into the trivial zone my own last appearance (of very few) at Manchester (same building, but County Court), where I represented a young but absurdly well-paid footballer. In 2006 or 2007.
[Courts of Justice, Crown Square, Manchester].
I believe that Manchester now has a Civil Justice Centre at another location, and that civil cases are now no longer heard at the Crown Square buildings shown above. Manchester is not a city I know, really, and I have only been there about half a dozen times in my life.
Ukraine's allies forced Zelensky to sacrifice more than 400,000 Ukrainians in 'failed NATO gambit'
Former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter wrote about it on social networks. The expert is convinced that the supply of fighters will not change the sorry situation of the Armed… pic.twitter.com/Xctk0uk5yB
Just read that. Partly true, but it leaves out the fact that, were there less income inequality, a greater percentage of the population would become net contributors to the public funds via taxes of one sort or another.
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