“Our reader will have learned from personal experience that the nature of questions themselves has changed.”
-The Forest Passage 2:1
In The Forest Passage, a gift from fellow writer S.L. James, I have found what I believe to be one of the most important books written by a man of the Age of Nations for the guidance of the Post National Man. Many wise whispers are incisively lurking in within these 97 slim pages. I have annotated them as follows, this is the first of three parts:
1
-Awareness of the distinct questions of our time
-Lost masculinity of a waning age
2
-Advent of questioning systems
-Counterfeiting of will via demos
-Society of interrogator
3
-Adjusting to perpetual social change
-Reflection as antidote
-Mystery of participation in a choiceless world
4
-Quote for Barbarism vs Civilization
-Illusion of freedom
5
-Corruption equals failure of subtlety
-We are human residue polluting an inhuman system
6
-Dangers of consummation
-Dissenters as living trophies
-1984
7
-Values of dissent
-Confirmation of power
-Terror, fear, hate, threat
-Discourages non-participation in choiceless system
8
-Democracy as thorny thicket
-Dissenter as criminal monster
9
-Voting “no” as an intersecting fiction
10
-Q
-Predicts Vietnam, postmodern angst
-Human residue as spiritual gold
-Q
11
-Termite state
-Constant threat condition
-Democracy as thorny thicket
-Dissenter as criminal monster
9
-Voting “no” as an intersecting fiction
10
-Q
-Predicts Vietnam, postmodern angst
-Human residue as spiritual gold
-Q
11
-Termite state
-Constant threat condition
12
-Fractional autonomy
-Power demands allegiance
-Power survives on breaches of allegiance
13
-Advising young men on “swimming with leviathan”
14
-To fall or transform?
15
-Social tension a necessity
-Necessity versus freedom
16
-Dissent preserves notions of justice in an age of violence
17
-A concentration of being
-Police growth correlates to growth of minority power
18
-The forest passage = invisible resistance
19
-Trivial stature associated with enormous power
20
-The worker as It
-Art & worship supplant will & passion
-Fractional autonomy
-Power demands allegiance
-Power survives on breaches of allegiance
13
-Advising young men on “swimming with leviathan”
14
-To fall or transform?
15
-Social tension a necessity
-Necessity versus freedom
16
-Dissent preserves notions of justice in an age of violence
17
-A concentration of being
-Police growth correlates to growth of minority power
18
-The forest passage = invisible resistance
19
-Trivial stature associated with enormous power
20
-The worker as It
-Art & worship supplant will & passion
21
-Automatism verses nomos & ethos
-Desperate state: living under weaponized laws
22
-Modernity dedicated to erasure of free will
23
-Reconception of freedom
-Gaps in the armor of leviathan [Tolkien, the dragon?]
-Automatism verses nomos & ethos
-Desperate state: living under weaponized laws
22
-Modernity dedicated to erasure of free will
23
-Reconception of freedom
-Gaps in the armor of leviathan [Tolkien, the dragon?]
24
-Cycle of freedom & tyranny
-Tolkienesque metaphors expand:
-Worker as orc
-Unknown soldier as wraith
-Forest rebel as ranger [dissenter]
-Price of domestication
25
-Oppose automatism
-Defy fatalism
-Q
-Three great powers
26
-Authorship = independence
-The technical collective [Poe’s Pit]
-Modernity as labyrinth
27
-Fear
-Fog
-Synchronicity of individual insecurity and collective security
-Sinking of the titanic, watermark of...
28
-Metaphors
-Man the primal tree in the forest
-Modernity the passage of leviathan
-Cycles of cosmic anxiety
29
-Flee, hide or suicide to escape from the base?
-News as the automatized perfection of FEAR
30
-Cold War predicts War on Terror, both phony instruments of fear saturation
-Fear more powerful than danger
-Cycle of freedom & tyranny
-Tolkienesque metaphors expand:
-Worker as orc
-Unknown soldier as wraith
-Forest rebel as ranger [dissenter]
-Price of domestication
25
-Oppose automatism
-Defy fatalism
-Q
-Three great powers
26
-Authorship = independence
-The technical collective [Poe’s Pit]
-Modernity as labyrinth
27
-Fear
-Fog
-Synchronicity of individual insecurity and collective security
-Sinking of the titanic, watermark of...
28
-Metaphors
-Man the primal tree in the forest
-Modernity the passage of leviathan
-Cycles of cosmic anxiety
29
-Flee, hide or suicide to escape from the base?
-News as the automatized perfection of FEAR
30
-Cold War predicts War on Terror, both phony instruments of fear saturation
-Fear more powerful than danger
(c) 2018 James LaFond
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