The Viking warrior king of Norway, Harald Hardrada (1015 – 1066) commander in Constantinople, lived a spectacular life. The Viking age in Scandinavia (750 to 1050 AD) fostered a warrior and tradesman culture in Europe that led to a massive expansion, even to America and into Iraq. The Vikings populated Normandy in France and their descendants conquered England in …
Read More »The trend continues: Atheists renounce atheism because it has worsened our society
One of the best-known sociologists and intellectuals in the world, Peter L. Berger (1929-2017) strongly believed that the cultural trend of modernity would cause religion to decline. Then he had a mid-career transformation and dramatically changed his view. Berger admitted that he was wrong when assuming that a modern society automatically would lead to religious alienation. Atheists renounce atheism: …
Read More »Aldous Huxley interview: Technology, big government, big business pose grave danger
As we now live in the billionaire controlled transnational system, accelerated massively by Covid-19, we are gradually returning to the feudalist structure of the Middle Ages as the few and wealthy own almost everything. And surveil it all. The working class and middle classes will increasingly become the new slave class to the globalist, billionaire kings and lords of …
Read More »EXCLUSIVE interview with Paul Craig Roberts: Europe will be the Battleground … again
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts said in this exclusive interview to Herland Report, taped in 2018: “If there is a war, Europe is going to disappear. The Russians have already said that they will not fight another war on their territory. There are no independent governments in Europe, Washington owns them.” “If Russia and China have insulated themselves, it would …
Read More »Political Atheist Messianism: The Political Messiah is here
Totalitarian ideologies again dominate the Western educational structure, the mainstream media and the state controlled public sphere – much seemingly against the will of the majority population. In The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, professor of modern history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jacob Lieb Talmon, explains how modern totalitarianism became so popular in the 1900s, dominated World War …
Read More »We now live under Totalitarian Democracy – ‘requirement to agree with the state or else’
The West is re-entering an age of totalitarianism. Freedom is increasingly defined as the right to concur with the Western liberal hegemony elites, which implies a fundamental revolt against historical Western values. The enemy is now the traditional family, the nation state, respect for spiritual beliefs, natural law and the Christian-Judeo ethics as foundational values. Just as Communism and …
Read More »The path to a meaningful life: Listen to the voice of the heart, as Jean-Jacques Rousseau suggested
The French philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously stated that morality is our following the voice of nature within us. A meaningful life: This inner voice is often drowned out by the passions, our pride or other destructive forces of egoism and evil that lurk in the darkness of this world. If we choose to quench this voice of nature that …
Read More »Hannah Arendt: Understanding Totalitarianism and the reign of Terror
The German philosopher, Hannah Arendt is considered one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. She was a Holocaust survivor who spent many years questioning how it was possible for a modern, democratic state such as pre-World War II Germany, to turn into a totalitarian state and a brutal regime that killed millions of its own …
Read More »Big Brother and Totalitarian Control in the West – Hannah Arendt
In times of massive political upheaval such as what we now are witnessing, the German philosopher, Hannah Arendt might be worth revisiting. She lived to see World War II and the totalitarian Nazi regime up close and wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism to warn the world of the terrible fate of those who embrace authoritarianism. She states that a …
Read More »Hannah Arendt: Totalitarianism is product of the disintegration of the nation-state
In the famous German philosopher, Hannah Arendt ground-breaking book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, she analyzed the 20th century growth of atheist totalitarianism that led to Holocaust and the concentration camps of the Gulag in Russia. In the attempt to understand how the rise of totalitarianism was possible in Germany and Russia, she seeks to understand the power structures that …
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