Kali Tribune

Category: Knowledge

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Essay / Knowledge

What’s to be Done: On Holy Indifference Pt.1

How to beat discrepancies of modern living: half of your life you are corporate drone, waiter or construction worker and the other half you might just be striving for sainthood. Yet, as Mihai Marinescu tells us in this two part Eastern European self-help manual for aspiring rebels against the modern world, this is impossible. Then, what am I to do, one might ask? Well, gird yourselves with focus and patience and take a dip in this long and poignant analysis. We won’t spoil too much for you if we give answer in advance: You can do what you can.

Sounds simple? It is anything but.

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Knowledge

Wholesale Angels

All men crave knowledge by nature, that is the opening statement of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Yet the good chunk of that great work, as well as some of the best passages ever written in metaphysics and theology, rather deal with the discipline of putting this craving in its natural confines, than attempting to incite it further.

In this podcast – an appendix to our ongoing series on traditional notions of destiny and Providence – we focus on attempts of those who try to cross this boundary and take more than is due to them; overstep the bounds of knowledge by not understanding its nature and its limits.

Strangely enough, those are people whose activities somehow always end up in a sort of religious marketing rendering them into wholesale agents on “the market of truth” with a claim to knowledge traditionally ascribed to angels – an total intuitive perception of the truth of the given subject and claim to prophetic insight.

They are wholesale angels, indeed. And they are so full of “spirit of prophecy”, that they cannot help but confuse the sound  of expiration coming from their bowels for the pouring forth of the Holy Spirit.

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Essay / Knowledge

Imperatrix Mundi: On Traditional Notion of Destiny pt. 1

“Nothing is without reason” – a sentence often pronounced and rarely believed in. Let us pronounce it and see how can it be demonstrated. In this two part essay we’ll approach the phenomenon of meaningful coincidences in human life, i.e. destiny, from the standpoint of traditional metaphysics.

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Knowledge

Nicked Post: Theodore Dalrymple & Jasun Horsley

Kali Tribune is going through short period of under the hood works, so we’re suffering a bit of a hiatus. We’ll be back on track soon enough and in the mean time we offer our traditional nicked post: Jasun Horsley and Theodore Dalrymple have a chat on range of themes – from Fabian socialism to disasters of progress. Not to be missed

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Knowledge

“Demonic Texture”: Corrosive Subtext of Dugin’s 4th Political Theory

Alexander Dugin’s 4th political theory is a convenient cover for quite prosaic – albeit apocalyptic – political project, outlined to the best of his abilities in the Foundations of Geopolitics. However, there’s much more to it than that, even as an afterthought. In this video we’ll demonstrate how Dugin imagines that postmodernity should be beaten by postmodernity and consequences thereof. The most notable one is the subversion and further dissolution of those pre-modern principles he supposedly cherishes. As always, we’ll take a maximum advantage of his own words to demonstrate just what inherent destructive potential his ideas conceal.

Also, we point out the persistent mistake on behalf of Dugin’s mainstream critics of not getting him seriously and affirming that he builds his destructive project on quite correct assessment of our historical situation. Something they do at their own peril.

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Knowledge

Directives to Commentariat: on Intelligence and its Opposite

It is time for periodical KT Q&A podcast. This time around we address reader’s questions on problem of intelligence and its opposite. What does it mean to be intelligent? Can extremely intelligent men be quite stupid at the same time? What does this mean and how it discloses what intelligence really is? Is intelligence one or many things? Can intelligence be quantified and can it really be tested? Why inability to discern the good in apparent total evil is a sign of stupidity …

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Knowledge

Of Fathers and Sons: Metaphysics from the Everyday’s Perspective

Traditional metaphysical notion of causality seems like the most abstract thing in the world. In order to demonstrate the opposite, or rather qualify “abstract” in a quite different sense, we’ll take a look at two passages from supposedly the most abstract treatise on the subject: Elements of Theology by Proclus. Simultaneously, we’ll lay out how the notion of unity of cause and effect is quite obvious from the pinnacle moment of growing up from boy into man: a recognition of likeness between father and the son.

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Analysis / Essay / Knowledge

Skiagraphia: Internet and the Art of the Shadow Weaving

“How you identify?” “Oh, I identify as …” If you find this Q&A form peculiar, moreover, if you already noticed how it pervades the conversations, replacing the traditional “Who are you?” and “I am …”, invest some of your time into KT’s analysis of the strange cause that just could be underlying this novel, yet only seemingly insignificant, nuance in the form of Internet mediated conversations. It just might cast a peculiar new light on real motives why people seek identitarian movements, conspiracy theories and serial religious conversions.