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In recent years it has become clear that there is a war going on: a war on the West. This is not like earlier wars, where armies clash and victors are declared. It is a cultural war, and it is being waged remorselessly against all the roots ...more
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It's been a long time the West has been at War. (Even with itself)
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recommended reading: The West Is Dead: Russia and America Redraw the World Map
by Alexander Dugin

(A perspective from those who fight the "West")
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"....and what I worry about is the threat from within"

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Angela Carter
“I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”
Angela Carter

Alan W. Watts
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
Alan Watts

Mary Wollstonecraft
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Angela Carter
“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
Angela Carter

Dante Alighieri
“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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