Essaybronze age pervertThe Open Steppe of the SeaFor man in America or Europe, not to speak of Azia, who lives in thickly-settled coasts there is almost no daily escape from…
In the century since Robert E. Howard’s first published Conan story, the Cimmerian has claimed a thread in the tapestry of western myth, becoming a culture hero alongside Robin Hood or King Arthur. Nobody asks, “Conan!? Who’s that?”. Everyone knows Conan, even if only by osmosis. Generations have grown up knowing his image and legend; our own noble savage.
A hand emerged from among the tangled mass of quilt and reached towards the bedside table. At last it found what it was searching for – her IPhone, which was blindly drilling its way across the wooden surface towards the edge. Silence. She lay under the covers for a few minutes longer, resisting the urge to return to sleep. Normally, she never set an alarm unless she had specific content to create or somewhere she had to be. Today was a day she had somewhere to be.
Jonathan Bowden said that within right-wing movements, and more generally right-wing thought itself, there is a split between those who favor a pagan ethic and those who favor a Christian ethic. In my view, this split is reflective of a deep schism in the Western soul itself, caused by nearly two thousand years of Christianity, which itself has always been split between its Jewish and Indo-European influences. It could also be seen as reflecting the eternal tension between compassion and power.
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