WW1 ending La Belle Époque revealed ours is the time of malignant Dwarf Titans. Virilio offers a genealogy in which civil society (originally the city) was actually twin-born with military society from pre-civilized “tumults” of all-against-all violence. He posits this in contradistinction to the model of trade as the basis for civilization. According to him, war has evolved from tactics (pre-martial violence), through strategy (control of space), to logistics (control of time). The global fruition of logistics is the “pure war” in which humanity is increasingly subject to a non-human technological agenda predicated on abstract, hyperreal conflict.
When men think of history as a process that they can control, they make war on the person, as such – the person validated by the words and deeds of Christ, in whom alone the human creature can find its dignity. Berdyaev observes how “it is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.” The point In Berdyaev’s interpretation, modernity thinks that it can reverse Adam’s fall and reestablish paradise, but it only blindly and dumbly reenacts that fall. It is a case of titanic hubris and of equally titanic nemesis. “The world war and the revolutionary processes which have followed it have a metaphysical significance for the fate of man.” The war put on display, bloodily and destructive, the demonic inhumanity that had long simmered under the veneer of civilization; it showed that the modern utopian conceit expressed a fundamental nihilism which, discovering that it could not create on a godlike level, turned its fury on creation, especially the human portion of that creation, and sought its annihilation. “The war revealed the personality of our civilization,” Berdyaev writes; “it cheapened life, it taught man to take no thought for human life and personality, to consider them as means and instruments in the hands of the fatality of history.” That term personality operates centrally in Berdyaev’s Christian anthropology. What strikes Berdyaev as sufficiently important that he repeats it in variorum a few lines later: “The tragedy of the situation lies in the fact that great masses of humanity have awakened and come into power at the moment of a falling away from Christianity and the loss of all religious beliefs.
Max Picard writes: "In every age man has been in flight from God. What distinguishes the Flight today from every other flight is this: once Faith was the universal, and prior to the individual; there was an objective world of Faith, while the flight was only accomplished subjectively, within the individual man. It came into being through the individual man's separating himself from the world of Faith by an act of decision. A man who wanted to flee had first to make his own flight. The opposite is true today. The objective and eternal world of Faith is no more; it is Faith which has to be remade moment by moment through the individual's act of decision, that is to say, through the individual cutting himself off from the world of the Flight.”
I am reading an obscure minor Catholic English poet published in 1910-Francis Thompson, the book is A Renegade Poet and Other Essays. In his essay Paganism: Old and New the opening paragraph is very amusing. “How define new Paganism? Most modern beliefs are easily defined. Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps. An atheist is a man who believes himself and accident. Morality (modern) is the art of defining your principles to oppose your practice. Immorality (again modern) well, it was excellently defined by Pope as …”A monster of such frightful mein/As to be hated, needs but but to be seen.” He goes on to observe that those who find Christianity too hard of belief should come to believe in Paganism, sounds, I know like an absurdity. But nothing, he goes on to say, is so incalculable as the credulity of incredulity. He states it is not old Paganism but the ethos of Paganism moderns seek to restore. “If my view be correct, the would use the old “properties” of Paganism to deck out their own material nature-worship. Vaclav Klaus, the first president of the Czech Republic after the end of the Soviet dictatorship, warned that “Celebrating the end of communism is inappropriate. It is creeping back in different forms under different flags and slogans.” He continues, “As someone who lived under communism for most of my life, I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st Century, is not communism or its various softer versions. It was replaced by ambitious environmentalism.
“In Marx’s analysis, the growing destruction of nature under capitalism is not simply a function of nature having become an object for humanity; rather, it is primarily a result of the sort of object that nature has become. Raw materials and products, according to Marx, are bearers of value in capitalism, in addition to being constituent elements of material wealth. Capital produces material wealth as a means of creating value. Hence, it consumes material wealth not only as the stuff of material wealth but also as a means of fueling its own self-expansion—that is, as a means of effecting the extraction and absorption of as much surplus labor time from the working population as possible. Ever increasing amounts of raw materials must be consumed even though the result is not a corresponding increase in the social form of surplus wealth (surplus value). The relation of humans and nature mediated by the labor process becomes a one-way process of consumption, rather than a cyclical interaction.”—Moishe Postone
Let me now point out the Red-Green Agenda is really underneath the kelptocratic agenda nothing but this new Paganism-eg not the old communism but the ethos of the communism with a green hue. The Great Reset is the ethos of the world communist revolution. Many in the green movement want to introduce an earth-based religion to solve the world’s problems. They believe that the earth is a living organism, a deity, an “earth spirit.” Former vice-president Al Gore, who has been a vocal environmentalist, wrote in his book, Earth in the Balance, that “Our religious heritage is based on a single earth goddess who is assumed to be the foundation of all life … all men have a god within. Each man has a god within because creation is God.”
Another prominent environmentalist, the late Carl Sagan, suggested that the earth should be “regarded as sacred” to encourage treating it with “care and respect, not because God made it, but because it made us.” Pantheism is widely embraced by environmentalists. “For them the earth and all living things contain a ‘spark’ of the divinity and therefore have no final purpose outside of themselves. This naturally leads to a radical egalitarianism between man, animals, plants, and inanimate matter.”
In 1992 the Rio Summit, headed by Maurice Strong, former head and co-founder of the WEF, had established a new era in the consolidation of NGOs and corporations under the genocidal green agenda of controlled starvation masquerading behind the dogma of “sustainability’. This doctrine was formalized with Agenda 21 and the Earth Charter, co-authored by Mikhail Gorbachev, Jim MacNeill and Strong during the 1990s. At the opening of the Rio Summit, Strong announced that industrialized countries had “developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class, involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing- are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.”
In a 1992 essay entitled From Stockholm to Rio: A Journey Down a Generation, published by the UN Conference on Environment and Development, Strong wrote:
“The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. What is needed is recognition of the reality that in so many fields, and this is particularly true of environmental issues, it is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.”
Two years earlier, Strong gave an interview wherein he described a “fiction book” he was fantasizing about writing which he described in the following manner:
“What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group’s conclusion is ‘no’. The rich countries won’t do it. They won’t change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” While impeccable research by historian Elaine Dewar (author of Cloak of Green-1995) showcased Strong’s role as a recruit of Rockefeller assets in the 1950s, an oil baron, vice president of Power Corporation by 30, Liberal Party controller, Privy Councillor, and founder of Canada’s neo-colonial external aid policy towards Africa, we will focus here on the role Strong played since 1968 in subverting the pro-development potential of Canada and the world at large. It was through this post-1968 role that Strong became the godfather of the modern environmental movement, created the United Nations Environmental Protection Agency (UNEP) and worked closely with Mark Malloch Brown as his special advisor and later Soros in the creation of a new post-nation state world order. https://strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/25/maurice-strong-and-the-roots-of-the-great-reset-agenda/