Sunday, 20 March 2011

Huxley, Orwell And The Challenge Islam Faces


Electronic media have a decentralizing effect. They permit every single individual to be a center without margins. There is no analogue in the natural world that can challenge its scope or authority. The problem is when we permit such innovation to eclipse the human person. Technological innovation is not an object, it's a relation. I often think that progress itself is dependent on a false view of human freedom itself. Given the political and theological problems intrinsic to contemporary Islam, technological innovation and its erroneous vision viewing the human person as an appendage to consumption is perhaps the greatest intellectual threat facing the West today.


Tomislav Sunic And The European New Right

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Tomislav Sunic's Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right is the third book from Arktos Media we have reviewed, the two previous being Guillaume Faye'sArcheofuturism, and Alain de Benoist's The Problem of Democracy. Whereas de Benoist's book length essay was a general discussion of the form of democracy and its sometimes contradictions, Sunic's book is more in keeping with Faye's in that it is specific to European New Right (ENR) issues, and both should be read together as compliments. Unlike the Faye, Dr. Sunic's book is written specifically with the non-European reader in mind. It is not a translation but an original English monograph, now in its third edition.