Trot Watcher The final movement of Beethoven’s immortal Fifth Symphony (conducted by my new favourite composer, Herbert von Karajan, in the video above) is a heart-stopping finale to one of the greatest works of musical composition in all of human history. It is also, for me, the soundtrack of my personal struggle and triumph over adversity, and … Read more
The last several months have been a period of discovery. I have delved deep into Dostoevsky, I am now discovering the magic of Thomas Hardy, and I am probing the wisdom of George Eliot. I am acquiring the rudiments of a literary education. In the sphere of music, I am working my way through the … Read more
This was very disturbing reading. Have a look for yourself. I am going to add nothing of my own, as I think the victim should speak in her own words. Appalling, but not shocking in light of my own understanding of this sect and it’s cult-like nature.
Here is what Nietzsche wrote to a friend after deserting the Wagner cult: Can you remain, in spite of everything, as kindly disposed to me as you were—or, rather, will you be able to do so? You can see that I have become so candid that I can endure only human relationships which are absolutely … Read more
Thus do I speak to you in parables, you who make the soul giddy, you preachers of equality! You are tarantulas and dealers in hidden revengefulness! …I pull at your web that your rage may lure you from your cave of lies and your revenge may bound forward from behind your word ‘justice’. For that … Read more
Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self-Reliance’
Some months after leaving the IMT, I bought a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings. I’ve flipped through it only a few times, and it has been lying on my bookshelf, pregnant with dormant wisdom, for the last couple of years. For some reason, I never read his most famous essay, ‘Self-Reliance’ (1841), until just … Read more
315. WEAK SECTS. – Those sects which feel that they will always remain weak hunt up a few intelligent individual adherents, wishing to make up in quality what they lack in quantity. This gives rise to no little danger for intelligent minds. -The Dawn of Daybreak
Trot cultists would have you believe that dialectical materialism is a profound philosophy whose truths only Marxism and its ‘science’ could possibly have gifted to the world. So much of it turns out to be well-worn philosophical ground, stuff that we started taking for granted a while ago. Take the following statement from Trotsky’s 1939 … Read more