Bruce Lerro

B. LERRO—Dugin begins by contending that by the end of the 20th century liberalism’s opponents –  conservativism, monarchism, traditionalism, fascism, socialism and communism – had all been defeated. Fascism emerged later than the other major political theories and vanished before them. Socialism and fascism positioned themselves as contenders for the soul of modernity and failed. Liberalism is the main enemy of the Fourth political theory.  Dugin claims it is the forces of “freedom”, the forces of the market which have lead humanity along the path of degeneration. He wants to pull the roots of liberal evil out of the structure of the modern world.  

BRUCE LERRO—Any complex human society has a number of specialized positions that go with the functions they perform to manage the state. In a prosperous society, as social wealth grows the number of positions available for work grow with it. But in a society where the ruling elites are too narrow in their visions for navigating society, the number of positions remains static. The rulers are either too short-sighted or they cannot afford to tell aspiring elites the truth about job availability. Therefore, they do not shut down educational opportunities to those training for specialized positions and their applicants continues to grow. It is these folks who are trained with no work prospects that have subversive potential.

BRUCE LERRO—Catholic totalitarianism attempted to control people by anxiety, fear and hatred of life. Let us return to the sixteen characteristics of paganism at the beginning of this article and try to understand the Church. In the first place there is a hatred of life. There is a condemnation of the celebration of leisure, feasting, saturating the senses and sex. Anything this-worldly is forbidden or looked at suspiciously. Secondly, there is a radical separation between spirituality and the material world. The use of charms or hallucinogens is condemned. When pagans buried their dead and feasted on the Day of the Dead, they left food and implements for the dead. This says that for pagans the veil between this world and the next is fluid, a matter of degree rather than kind. For the Catholic Church there is an absolute separation.

BRUCE LERRO—Because the Goddess movement often contrasts the values of tribal societies with those of state societies, it must also challenge the way world history has been presented. According to the Goddess movement, the dominant social order has placed a value judgment on social evolution by claiming that it constitutes “progress”. This means that the more complex societies are, the more they have improved life for everyone. Because the movement challenges this assumption, it must either try to revise history as written or, in more extreme cases, claim that the struggle to discover an objective history is futile.

BRUCE LERRO—From the time of the Renaissance until representational art began to be challenged at the end of the 19th century, most of us think of secular art as consisting of separate disciplines – dance, theatre, singing, painting, sculpture and writing. The exception to this was the theatrical work of Richard Wagner, a German composer, theater director, essayist and conductor who understood that combining the arts can create altered states of consciousness in the German public. Speaking religiously, the Catholic church was and is a master at creating altered states of consciousness in its followers with the use of stained-glassed windows, organ music, singing and incense filling the senses. Needless to say painters and sculptors were employed to carry out a single vision – the worshiping of God.