Message from @The Enlightened Shepherd
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Dugin is Third Worldist, i really dislike them
Dugin is a smart guy, he was into Traditionalism from Soviet times
But he seriously underestimates demographic dynamics and their implications
POSSIBLY SO
THAT IS A HUGE PROBLEM
MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO WORK WITH HIM
TOWARD ENCOURAGING THAT REALIZATION
THEN AGAIN
I THINK HE IS VERY NEW RIGHT
I.E. FOCUSED ON TRANSITION
WITH ULTIMATE IDEAL AS TRADITION
He certainly overestimates Russia's possibilities to be a true "block"
OF A GUENONIAN NATURE
Only vast resources are not enough for that
TRUE
BUT MAIN RUSSIA GOAL
IS TO HOLD TERRITORY
WHICH REQUIRES LOWER RESOURCES
MOSTLY MANPOWER
UNLESS MULTI-FRONT WAR
IT HELPS TO HAVE A BACKGROUND IN NIETZSCHE
BUT YES
INTERESTING
THE NEW RIGHT - TRADITIONALIST AXIS IS HIGHLY INTRIGUING AS WELL
He was a bright intellectual, very staunch non-dualist and sort of a criticist of "diversity" of tradition
POSSIBILITIES FOR A NON-MODERN CIVILIZATION
YES
TRADITION DOES NOT NEED DIVERSITY
But he quite lacked interest and skills in realpolitik
PERENNIALISTS ARE MISUNDERSTOOD
HE IS A PHILOSOPHER ONLY
AND REALLY, A RELIGIOUS ONE
I was puzzled by his conversion to Islam though
Well "Islam"
Sufism that is
He had debates with Evola on Hermeticism
and how there cannot be "many ways to tradition", but only one
How did he reach concluzion that Sufism is that one way, he never elaborated
Though he was so long in Initiatic organizations that he certainly knows things and has priorities that are probably obscure to me
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