Path of Totality

Trump as Precursor “The traditionalist roots of American culture have degraded into partisan bickering, gridlock, corruption, selfish indulgence, individualism, and, worst of all, blind servitude to abstractions. Yet just as Rome had her Caesar to overcome decay, so too will America have hers.” — from Myth and Sun (2022) by Martin Friedrich, Clemens & Blair Edition, p. 18

#ScienceSaturday No. 93 Analemma Timelapse of the sun photographed daily from the same location and time for a year and a half. The figure of 8 is called an analemma.

Mystic Roots As Destiny “A humanity cut off from its mystic roots is fated for machine-like alienation. This alienation imparts nihilism; this nihilism offers only degradation, and this, in turn leads to socio-cultural death. This death — this darkest night — is followed by the glowing sun of spiritual renewal. Schopenhauer said this world is a will-to-live; Nietzsche said this world is a will-to-power: they are both right, and it is time that proves their case over and again. Hail the lightning that rends the night — hail the sun that follows the dark!” — from Myth and Sun (2022) by Martin Friedrich, Clemens & Blair Edition, pgs. 6-7

Jewish Entanglement “By the time of the two fratricidal world wars, the world was already firmly in Jewish hands; the wars wouldn’t have happened otherwise. Thus, these wars were not transitional markers, but only the Germanic folk’s paroxysmal rejections of inevitability.” — from the acknowledgments page of Myth and Sun (2022) by Martin Friedrich, Clemens & Blair Edition

What one loves in childhood stays in their heart forever | 🎥⬜️

Nature (2 of 2) “Essentially, Heidegger identifies phusis with being. For the Greeks, ‘nature’ is the very activity of the world around us continually emerging, unfolding, arising, unconcealing, appearing to us. Note, however, that there is a ‘to us’. Things only appear to a subject. They are only ‘unconcealed’ to a subject from whom something can be hidden. They only ‘emerge’ to a subject that stands outside them, experiencing their emergence from hiddenness. Thus for phusis/being to ‘happen’, the clearing [awareness or openness] is necessary.” — from Being & “The Birds” (2024) by Derek Hawthorne, Cinephile Books edition, pgs. 82-83