T H E E N D C O M M U N E

“The only thing I can see democracy doing, over longer stretches of history, decrepit as it lies today in sludgy sewers of modernity, is giving the people it so eagerly governs the illusion of jurisdiction and the balance of powers; of democratic process; of suffrage and of many beautiful modern rights. Democracy is rather built on the idea that sovereignty is handed over to the people, but what really happens is that the true mechanisms and effects of power becomes obfuscated behind the smoke-screen; from concealed and ultimately failing forces the democratic project bellows its smoke.”

“They fail to account for the underlying tectonics of history when imagining and utopianizing the future, and they scoff and spit at the librares, these irredivivous accumulations of the wisdoms! Why can they not cede that tradition is multi-dimensional? Tradition has been a tool of oppression, it is true, but as well the very wheel which turns the tide of time and anchors it to history; to our historiography. We pin down the human condition by trapping it under the heavy weights of history as if trapping a bird in cage as to let it scream from therein. Yes – tradition is multi-dimensional. Tradition – in many respects oppressive, gruelling and insensitive to the eyes and ears of modern man and to man of history alike – is of fundamental importance to everything we call and feel Holy, and it encapsules what is worthy of defense until no man stands anymore! And your pitiful attempts at philosophizing away the existential absolute of such a notion is dangerously stupid, also ridiculous and frustrating. Tradition is a hammer and there are plenty of heads to crush and there are plenty of nails to nail as well. Tradition is an essentially human behavior and a deduction of man's conditioning in material-scientific reality and as well beyond it. On the matter of what is beyond it though, much and almost none can be said – that mystery devours all.”

“A man who is indifferent to history and tradition is a man without hearing, without sight. Such a man can live, of course — but what a life?”