So, I’m going to rant a bit. My ranting will be restrained, but I will rant. Amusingly enough my CD changer just randomly plucked Kate Bush’s “Hammer Horror” and started playing it as I sat down to write this. The general… eh, let’s say ‘maniacal’.. nature of Kate bush’s music needs no * further comments. […]
History
Caves, Killory, and Cool Disco Dan
Sometimes ideas can take on lives of their own, becoming transmittable memes, replicating themselves in a bewildering array of permutations. So, when I was in high school, as a young tagger, my buddies and I all wondered “Who is Cool Disco Dan?” Cool Disco Dan, whose name could be seen stretched along buildings, warehouses, signs, […]
Pithy quote from Rene Guenon, on modern Western civilization
“..most extraordinary of all is perhaps the claim to set up this abnormal civilization as the very type of all civilization, to regard it as Civilization with a capital letter, and even as the only one which deserves the name…” – Rene Guenon, in East and West
Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian Freemasonry, and the British Mandate
A list of sources, and commentary: I first heard rumors of Muhammad Abduh, Rashid Ridha, and their ideological father – Jamal al-din al-Afghani, having been high degree Freemasonic initiates about 16 years ago. Initially I dismissed the idea, it seemed to make little sense at the time, but I ran into this historical bugbear now […]