Status Updates From Against the Modern World: T...

"It is not the presence of tradition in Iran and Turkey that allows Traditionalism into the intellectual mainstream, but the presence of modernity. ... One ["Traditionalist"] question is now asked in Turkey for the first time since the nineteenth century and is of pressing concern in Russia: East or West? Another is a central question for Iran today—modernization, or isolation for the sake of traditional religion?"

This is pretty interesting: despite (or because of) the unbreakable bond between Israel and the West, there is also a strong current of pro-Russian, Dugin-inspired 'Eurasianists' in Israel, who believe it's exactly Western influence that made politicians such as Rabin 'compromise' Zionism (the Oslo Accords already went too far in their eyes) and that a partnership with Russia would better serve the settler movement.

🍄‍🟫 "Sergey Kuryokhin's popularity derived partly from his 'mystifications', as when he maintained on a major television channel that Lenin was in fact a mushroom."

the gradual descent of Frithjof Schuon over the course of several chapters/decades from 'erudite scholar of religions' to 'cult leader accused of ritual child molestation' was a rollercoaster to be sure

Its trying to convey a thread of transmission from Guenon's thought to political ideology. It's interesting. I don't know how how I feel about the accuracy of it though.

An interesting start, especially with the autobiographical prologue, but the umbrella branch of Traditionalism is way too broad, and then creating a history of this broad branch seems a bit ambitious of an endeavour.