The old world is dying. The new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.
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- Antonio Gramsci wrote from prison in the 1930s, "Now is the time of monsters." He could have been writing about today.
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"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” - Antonio Gramsci
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Very much looking forward to the series. Thank you for the excellent content.
This is very needed. We are at an inflection point in history. One that can go back 500 years. The reality of the forthcoming multi-polar world overturns a legacy of colonialism and war. It needs to be embraced as the possibilities are tremendous. It is personally frustrating for me, as a lifelong American, to see how the leaders of my country insist on trying to hold back history and instead bring the world to world threatening crisis.
Excellent channel, excellent content!
Looking forward to it, keep chiming in mate.
This sounds wonderful! I was not familiar with that Gramsci quote. Reminds me of Yeats' The Second Coming.
Indeed! Written only about ten years apart.... must have been the mood of the times!
@@theburningarchive Indeed..the trench war poets emerged from the same monstrosities.
Yes, Yeats indeed.
@damienflinter4585 Yes, poor bastards, wonderful poets.
Thank you, sir. Happy to listen along. As a yank, all things considered, I don't have much grievance with principled anti-Americanism.
In the meantime, your continent nation is slated to become America 2.0 and increasingly host the US Nuclear Triad. (I'd advise against it.)
Forget "Gulf of America", we want it renamed to "Gulf of Waffle House".
And what about Iran? Iran is a civilizational state with the capacity to be a superpower. Thank you for your content, it is very good.
Indeed - I hope to get to Iran + others is 2026.... The first five have given me a full schedule in 2025. Many thanks for the feedback
I also thought, what about Persia?
Iran can never be a ‘superpower’ when it is run, like Russia by a tiny clique of I’ll-informed ideologues who do not have popular support and expend ,ost of their energy suppressing their own miserable populace with their consent. The economy of Iran cannot compete with the EU and all they produce is oil. That is not leadership by any stretch of the imagination. All Iran can do is exert regional influence to ruin hopes for central Asian progress toward democracy.
Iran has an IQ of 85. They can't become a superpower.
India also has an IQ of 85 but with 100 million high IQ Brahmins and their billion brain dead slaves. This allows India to possibly have power if the elite can segregate and exploit the billion under castes.
Great essay and promo. Here @12:30 it's a conundrum. Probably yeah Trump wants to heavy handed assert US power, but he's going to end up doing the opposite. His victims are predominantly the US citizens and those within their borders. He is a basic sort of weird Accelerationist (he would deny it, it's his policies that do it, and he's ignorant of the effects). I would say, if other nations want to best insulate themselves and help the poorer Americans who will suffer the most, the other governments need to understand they never need US dollars. This is critical.
There is a good reason Musk is targeting the Tsy payments system. But that will harm Americans. If other nations act wisely it need not harm them. For a government a US dollar is worthless, it's just an account record at the US FED. A sovereign government does not need a foreigners scorepoints for a single thing. The false fear is pass-through inflation if payments are made with the domestic currency rather than US reserves. But I tell you, this is not a risk. The risk only exists if you have a fixed exchange rate or peg. So you go to a float and then have the fiscal space to make appropriate domestic adjustments in response to things like tariffs or embargoes.
For a currency sovereign government there is never a need for a financial crisis. The only crises wise policy cannot avoid would be a real supply crisis. (Like COVID-19, or a war, or famine.)
Every country has a sovereign currency (the EU a weird exception proving the rule). None of them need US dollars accounts to gain full employment in non-bullsh1t jobs domestically and slowly improve their standard of living. There is no need to "fight" the Trump tariffs for example. Simple domestic fiscal adjustments can ensure imports still happen. You want the imports. You don't really want to export to the USA, since you do not really need US dollars. You just want some buyers for your surplus production, the exports pay (in real terms) for your imports. Imports are your real benefit.
You will not get this from history books since they're all wrong on monetary systems, except for a rare few.
Yes! Thanks for your work, J.R. I hope Oz jettisons AUKUS to form modest stances in relationship with NZ, Phillipines, Malaysia etc
Hi Jeff, are you familiar with Shahid Bolsen (Middle Nation yt channel). He has some interesting ideas about geopolitics. I’d love to hear your thoughts about him…
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I am now. Thanks for the tip. I caught a bit of one of his videos by chance/algorithm and will check out more and report back. Thanks again
Sure! I listen to Bolsen with great interest. He is quite extrem, but he nails it. Not easy digestable food of thought...
I was mesmerized by his stern morality, brilliant logic, and Malcolm X style. But he failed the test on Syria. Caught by surprise perhaps. He's a "radlib."
Can't think of more effeminate behavior than Charlie Kirk's hysterical fanboyishness: and more impotent political slop than renaming geography
As a German Biologist - this is about Domestication in its End Phase - Dumb Sheeple to the Slaughter House of the Techno Farm.
James Dean: Rebel without a Cause
sine causa - sucides himself in a wonderful German Porsche...
Domestication is irreversible and self destructive. End of Humanity...We become Soylent Green for the Robots
Go move in with Nick Land you pervert
"Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's" - Mark 12:17. What things are Caesar's? Whatever he says they are. What things are God's? Whatever Caesar says they are. Sheeple, indeed.
Actually Obama's world is dying. A new world is being born. Trump's victory has given inspiration to populists worldwide.
Rather, global chaos is being born. New order will emerge only after many years of civilizational turmoil
Obama was a naive fool. Tricked into droning people all over
You must be joking? How can anyone think that Trump is going to fix a broken system, when his wealth is determined by adherence to that broken system?
He's just another grub in the conga line of parasite presidents dating back at least as far as Woodrow Wilson.
@@jaykilborn2508 It isn't Trump, he is much of the same old world, it is Pres Putin who is bringing about the New World as stated by Edgar Cacey back in the 1940's he said "Russia is the hope of the World".
bonapartists
This "Russian civilization" is about as far from the European civilization as "Iranian civilization" is from the rest of Muslim countries. What separates Russia from Europe is a state myth, on which the "vertical of power" (official Russian term) is based, and ressentiment of many Russians against the West. However, during the coming global reset the majority of Russians will become disillusioned with the idea of imperial revaunchism (possibly, after the second unsuccessful attempt of the old KGB guys to destroy Ukraine), and then Europeans will reformat Russia and Ukraine in order to make them more business-friendly, resulting in economic growth without reliance on exports of commodities. Most Russians will benefit from this development, except those that are the part of "vertical of power", then middle classes will grow and form new (true) republics that will have much more in common with the republics that existed once in Europe than with the Moscow despoty
I see your point I see it differently. You might like to check out my Russian History playlist ua-cam.com/play/PLDQM15vyFoOQ2EdFzmOtf9rSsNC9csyHW.html or this global empires episode that talks about 'Greater Europe/Invention of the West' ua-cam.com/video/u7bGr62kmwQ/v-deo.html
In my 25 years in Russia, I have never met anybody who thinks this.
Actually it is crazy. The middle class grew massively under Putin, and life expectancy increased 10 years, while the middle class in the West is shrinking. In fact, the economic success story of the modern era is China. And Russians are supposed to embrace a European model (which was subsidized by their gas). Get real. It is another matter that the most oppressive periods of Russian history were all those in which they were trying to emulate some European model. Peter, Catherine, to some extent Ivan the Terrible, Lenin, Stalin.
It is such, that the "West", especially the USA hates Russians, not the other way how you claim. Are you a CIA guy, trying to stir hatered on Russians?
You are way off the mark, Russians never resented the West they wanted to be part of it and everytime they got close they where invaded by the West. Napoleon, Germany and now once again Europe and the u.s because they senced that Russia was weak. They left it too late 20 yrs too late, they where busy with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq now Russia is back where it belongs and as Edgar Cacey said back in the 40s Russia is the hope of the World. This comment may be deleted because it goes against the current western narrative.
Another priest / idealog seeing seasonal demons in history.
Always the time of monsters. Only different ones.
Nothing dies. Everything can only transform. And everything is interdependent and something's opposite. Janus. Nagarjuna's Antwort to Janus: Neither....nor.