Continental-Conscious

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^ by the way, *for another day*, the latter quote is from Dugin’s old essay on the Polish author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. In a recent interview with the oldest running Polish newspaper and currently the only surviving non-/anti-Atlanticist one, Myśl Polska (“Polish Thought”), Dugin expounded his love for Polish literature and claimed that his family has roots in the Polish nobility (Szlachta).

“It’s a small world,” as Americans say — but only because the world is so big and colorful in a way that only a Eurasian with deep European connections can authentically understand.

On the same point, one could point out that the author of “Tradition and Future Shock” is of German heritage, his grandparents having been exiled to Siberia under Stalin.

Let us continue to translate, read, and promote radical books from the Continent. The “Old World” is the real world. If for any reason we have to burn books, it’s because it is the spiritual, intellectual flame that matters, not the material ashes.

Approximately two years ago, the thick tome «Традиция и футурошок: Образы не нашего будущего» (translated as “Tradition and Future Shock: Visions of a Future that Isn’t Ours”) by Askr Svarte (Evgeny Nechkasov) arrived in the mail. It was a privately circulated manuscript whose first readers both seriously and jokingly called it “the most dangerous book in the world.” The package came with very specific instructions: “Burn this book after you read it.”

Now, two years later, the book’s selected readers in Russia continue to burn it, often in ritual, whereas in the West it is publicly available from PRAV Publishing since February. I am not ready to offer any full interpretation of this peculiar contrast, but I can share the intuition that there is something mysteriously symbolic in this: in Russia, such a radical book is read, assimilated, and burned in full consciousness, whereas in the West it is freely available on the market (for now), yet who is actually ready to read it , much less with the imperative of fire in mind?

Alexander Dugin once wrote: “I don’t think books are created just so that they must be read. Some books are simply sweet to have, some are for shredding, some are for tossing, some are for avoiding. Texts, thoughts, phrases, languages, and dictionaries are forests and fields of ideas, numerous populations, and figures…Books are like frozen birds, they want the fire of our eyes, but you never know who wants the fire of our eyes…Wooden artifacts, the fumes of sacred beech, the shafts of poisonous yew, bushes of lines…These are dangerous things…"

In our materialistic, destructive age of cancellations and book bans, it is curious and initiatic to think about burning our own books. Do we even remember what it means for a book to be written and published?

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