Re The Swamp and The Fire Urgent Warning to the West

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: Tom Goltz <tgoltz () quietsoftware com>
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [IP] The Swamp and The Fire Urgent Warning to the West
To: <dave () farber net>


The quoted article "The Swamp and the Fire" is an irrational rant, but is
also an interesting piece of propaganda.  It uses oblique references to
American Exceptionalism to imply that Americans are somehow superior to
Europeans or Russians, while insinuating that America's problems are
somehow caused by undue influences by those inferior foreigners.

The screed is also a blatant attempt to redirect the focus of "draining the
swamp" from eliminating corruption to attacking opinions and members of
society that the author dislikes.

Buried in all the words is the claim "We need to end all of this and return
to the real productive sector and mercantilist approach."

Given the author's willingness to redefine terms, I find myself wondering
what he actually means by "Mercantilist".  Does the author believe that the
situation will somehow be improved by greater government control over the
economy?  Yet, in the preceding sentence, he denigrates the "Federal
Reserve System".

I think what I find most frightening is that people appear to believe this
crap!


On 2/10/2017 3:50 AM, Dave Farber wrote:

I would like any rational reactions to this djf

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:33 AM


The Swamp and The Fire: An Urgent Warning to the West
By Dave Troy
Feb 10 2017
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https://medium.com/@davetroy/the-swamp-and-the-fire-an-urgent-warning-to-the-west-c5b27e2715b8
>

Many have begun to understand that Alexandr Dugin is “Putin’s Rasputin” and
his main political strategist. And Nina Kouprianova, wife of Richard
Spencer (of Nazi-punching fame), is one of his principal translators and
champions.

In the wake of extensive coverage of Stephen Bannon’s obsession with
pseudo-history text “The Fourth Turning,” many have been trying to
understand the ideology motivating the “traditionalist” movement that has
arisen in the US and in Eurasia. One doesn’t need to look further than
Dugin’s own writing.

To avoid sending trackable traffic to Dugin’s own website (katehon.com), I
have reproduced the essay, “Donald Trump: The Swamp and the Fire” from that
site here. You can look for it if you want to read the original
presentation.

Here is the text of that article in full. Note the call to action: So all
we need now is the Fire.

Donald Trump: The Swamp and The Fire

November 14, 2016
Alexandr Dugin

“The Swamp” is to become the new name for the globalist sect, the open
society adepts, LGBT maniacs, Soros’ army, the post-humanists, and so on.
Draining the Swamp is not only categorically imperative for America. It is
a global challenge for all of us. Today, every people is under the rule of
its own Swamp. We, all together, should start the fight against the Russian
Swamp, the French Swamp, the German Swamp, and so on. We need to purge our
societies of the Swamp’s influence. Instead of fighting between ourselves,
let us drain it together. Swamp-drainers of the whole world unite!

The other point is that anti-Americanism is over. Not because it was wrong,
but exactly the opposite: because the American people themselves have
started the revolution against precisely this aspect of the US that we all
hated. Now the European ruling elite, as well as part of the Russian elite
(that is still liberal), cannot be blamed as before for being too
pro-American. They should now be blamed for being what they are: a corrupt,
perverted, greedy gang of banksters and destroyers of cultures, traditions,
and identities. So let us drain the European Swamp. Enough with Hollande,
Merkel, and Brussels. Europe for Europeans. Soros and his sect should be
publicly condemned.

> From now on, the Swamp is an extraterritorial phenomenon, exactly like an
international terrorist network. The Swamp is everywhere and nowhere.
Yesterday, the center of the Swamp, its core, was situated in US, but not
anymore. This is a chance for all of us to start hunting them. The Swamp no
longer manifests itself in a regionally-fixed form. Nevertheless, it exists
and is still very, very powerful. But its anti-national nature is now
explicitly evident. The Swamp can no longer hide behind America. It has
gone into exile. But where? To Canada? To Europe? To Ukraine? To other
planets where various doped-up actors and actresses promised to emigrate in
the case of Trump’s victory? Now it is time for them to fulfill their
promise. This all seems like the globalists’ rapture. They are now absorbed
in a non-space, a utopia, in the land of the liberal utopia — a no-man’s
land. We are now witnesses to the deterritorialization of the Swamp, the
globalist elite, and the World Government.

What is the structure of the Swamp?

First of all, the Swamp is an ideology — Liberalism. We need a Nuremberg
Trial for Liberalism, the last totalitarian political ideology of
Modernity. Let us close this page of history.

Secondly, the Swamp is a special post-modernist culture. It is based on the
decomposition of any entity through digitalization, obligatory
schizomorphism, and so on. To drain it signifies restoring the Apollonian
unity of art. Art should return to holism.

Thirdly, it is transnational global capitalism. This is the material motor
of the Swamp. It is loans and the Federal Reserve System printing poisonous
green bills. We need to end all of this and return to the real productive
sector and mercantilist approach.

I propose to rediscover the ideas of Pitirim Sorokin. He saw the social
dynamic of history to be a chain of social paradigms which he called the
ideational, idealistic, and the sensate. The ideational is the absolute
domination of spirit over matter, asceticism, and the violent subjugation
of the material world to spiritual and religious aspiration. The idealist
type is balanced and based on the harmonious coexistence of the spirit and
matter, where the spiritual part is slightly dominant but not exclusive (as
in the ideational type). The sensate type of society is the domination of
matter over spirit, the body over the soul. The Swamp is the sensate type
of society. Until recently, it seemed that “sensate” and “American” were
synonyms. But after Trump’s triumph, everything is different. Now the
sensate is global and ex-centric. There is a kind of “translatio Imperii”
nowhere and everywhere.

Sorokin stressed that the cyclical nature of society follows only one chain
of succession: from the ideational to the idealistic to the sensate. The
idealistic cannot follow the sensate, as it is impossible for the Swamp to
evolve back into a semi-Swamp. After the Swamp comes the Sun, i.e., the
fire, the Spirit — the Spirit in its radical, ideational form. To drain the
Swamp, we need solar Fire, a Great Fire which should be in abundance.

The Swamp and Fire are two opposite elements distributed across the the
earth. Geopolitics now becomes vertical. Both of them can be found at any
point. The meaning of place now is the momentum of the process of draining
the Swamp. Where? Here and now.

The Swamp is no longer American hegemony, as the President of America
himself rejects such hegemony. So it is hegemony “tout court”, Hegemony as
such with a purely post-modernist void in the center.

[snip]

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