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https://www.barbadillo.it/104698-il-grande-risveglio-secondo-dugin/

Those most astute and sensitive to the signs of the times, also able to glimpse the meta-historical background behind the external events, have perceived a link not only chronological between the central events of the last two years: the Covid epidemic (or rather, beyond of its still obscure origin, the management of the emergency by some national governments), the election of Biden and the conflict in Ukraine. Three events that seem to accompany, accelerate the manifest plot of the Great Reset theorized by the director of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab, and pursued more or less openly by the liberal elites of the West.

The Great Reset

The Reset cloaks itself with good intentions, such as sustainable development and “zero-rate transitions”, but aims at the full deployment of the “fourth industrial revolution”, that is the all-pervading spread of digitalization, cyber technology and artificial intelligences. Transhumanism and the forced reduction of a world population no longer usable in a massive industrial production of a twentieth century are probably the ultimate goals of the current masters of the Earth. And to reach them they increasingly control consciences through the media, the subtle censorship of all dissent, the propagandized "cancel culture" which intends to eliminate the past and rewrite it Orwellian. Finally, they decide to intervene in a local conflict, albeit a geopolitically strategic one, such as the one taking place in Eastern Europe. Indeed, only self-righteous and ill-informed hypocrites can claim that the ongoing war is between Ukraine and Russia. It is between Russia and NATO, the armed arm of Western liberalism. It would not have such proportions and would not risk escalating into a world or nuclear conflict if isolationist Trump was still sitting in the White House instead of Biden. The intent is not to guarantee the territorial integrity of Ukraine but to bring Putin's Russia to its knees, the last obstacle to the realization of the Great Reset.

Aleksandr Dugin wrote Against the Great Reset. Manifesto of the Great Awakening (Aga Editrice) before the conflict, and the text is precious to understand the meaning of the conflict, to frame it in a broader, even meta-historical horizon.

Dugin's theses

Dugin argues that Russia represents the Pauline Katechon, the power that holds back the advent of the Antichrist, an antichrist who aims to annihilate any residue of humanity to establish the Ahrimanic domination of machines, of technology. It is understandable that the Anglo-Saxon West, the highest expression more or less conscious of this antichristic motive, wants to destroy Russia, Americanize it, colonize it, distort it. The Great Reset aims to leave man isolated, uprooted, disanimated, devoid of any ethnic, national, historical, sexual identity: a mere consumer and calculator, a hybrid of machine and animal with nothing more human, good only to consume himself and to consume.

According to Dugin, what we are witnessing is the last act of a long drama. If according to Francesco Borgonovo , who signs the beautiful introduction of the volume, the supporters of the reset are linked to the degenerate dualist Gnostic tradition, longing for liberation from the burden of the flesh to arrive at a satanic techno-parody of Paradise, the Russian thinker finds in the Middle Ages the 'origin more philosophically evident of the project. The last organic era was in fact the moment of the diatribe between Realists, followers of Thomas Aquinas, and Nominalists headed by William of Occam. If Realism maintained the existence of "universals", of archetypes, the Nominalists saw them as simple names. In fact, they considered that only simple and isolated entities and individuals without any collective identity really existed. Defeated on the theological field, the Nominalists, however, made their way into that of practical thought, characterizing the modern era starting from the Renaissance. It is Nominalism that has generated the historical process that led to the Protestant reform (destruction of the organic and traditional Church in favor of sects and of the individual relationship with the sacred text), in modern science (atomism and materialism) and in liberal capitalism (private property). The same twentieth-century reactions to liberalism (which Dugin calls "first political theory"), communism and fascism (second and third theory), are partly consequences of the nominalist error, and this partly explains their failure. With the fall of the USSR and the victory of Anglo-Saxon liberalism, every obstacle seemed to have been removed: the end of history had arrived, the moment of the last Nietzschean man. Yet a slice of the world resisted homologation, refused the disappearance of every organic community, the cancellation of every tradition, the surrender to the totalitarianism of the market: the Orthodox Slavic civilization, the Islamic, the Latin American and a large part of the Asian ones. The West itself has seen the rise in resistance movements to the plans of the elites in recent years. In the US, Trump's supporters, although lacking solid ideological foundations and too seduced by grotesque conspiracy ("childhood disease of anti-globalism", according to Dugin), represent a brute, almost telluric force that instinctively resists "the calming spells of the upper class globalist ". In Western Europe, populist and sovereign parties and movements often have the opposite problem, they struggle to free themselves from the opposing ideologies of the last century; overcoming the paralyzing boundary between right and left, social justice and traditional values could represent a significant barrier to the Great Reset. although devoid of solid ideological foundations and too seduced by grotesque conspiracy ("childhood disease of antiglobalism", according to Dugin), they represent a brute, almost telluric force that instinctively resists "the reassuring spells of the globalist upper class". In Western Europe, populist and sovereign parties and movements often have the opposite problem, they struggle to free themselves from the opposing ideologies of the last century; overcoming the paralyzing boundary between right and left, social justice and traditional values could represent a significant barrier to the Great Reset. although devoid of solid ideological foundations and too seduced by grotesque conspiracy ("childhood disease of antiglobalism", according to Dugin), they represent a brute, almost telluric force that instinctively resists "the reassuring spells of the globalist upper class". In Western Europe, populist and sovereign parties and movements often have the opposite problem, they struggle to free themselves from the opposing ideologies of the last century; overcoming the paralyzing boundary between right and left, social justice and traditional values could represent a significant barrier to the Great Reset. In Western Europe, populist and sovereign parties and movements often have the opposite problem, they struggle to free themselves from the opposing ideologies of the last century; overcoming the paralyzing boundary between right and left, social justice and traditional values could represent a significant barrier to the Great Reset. In Western Europe, populist and sovereign parties and movements often have the opposite problem, they struggle to free themselves from the opposing ideologies of the last century; overcoming the paralyzing boundary between right and left, social justice and traditional values could represent a significant barrier to the Great Reset.

There is therefore no shortage of resources on a political level to counter Western unipolarity and replace it with a multipolarity respectful of different worldviews, cultures and ethnic groups.

The Great Awakening invoked by Dugin is not limited to these perspectives, however. It is "a flash of conscience" still "without an ideological basis", and therefore not dogmatic. If it must remain dogmatic but open to various cultures, it undoubtedly needs "a formative project". Precisely because the enemy occupies above all the centers of culture, communication and the imagination, it is precisely on the formation of the new generations that we need to commit ourselves.

An Indo-European vision

A three-articulated society according to the ancient Indo-European conception highlighted by Georges Dumézil could be reborn if supported by university study programs precisely three-articulated and alternative to current academicism. Future Brahmins, spiritual guides, should be trained by studying the religious traditions of humanity and Western philosophy (especially German Idealism). The Kshatriyas should raise awareness of the motives and practices of a new political activism, involving above all women, no longer consumer goods as in the capitalist system but free to "fulfill their destiny" in a restored "traditional dignity". The Vaishya, the producers, should be the protagonists of a "return to the land", of a rediscovery of rurality, of agricultural work in harmony with natural rhythms, the chthonic forces of the earth and the celestial forces of the sun, moon and stars. The tutelary deities of the renewed three castes, according to Dugin, could be respectively René Guénon, Julius Evola and Mircea Eliade.

In just over a hundred pages, therefore, the thinker gives several ideas for meditation and action. Il di lui is the book to be read and distributed in this 2022 to decide what our future will be: either reset or awaken.