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Thanks for doing this mate. Peculiar stuff. I'll listen to this again tomorrow as it's a lot to take in.

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I enjoyed this rather unusual piece, Mirgoth. Important work, I reckon, as it really helps position Occidental or Faustian civilization in its proper context.

I eally hope that you will one day explore the work of Dr Lothrop Stoddard, who published The Rising Tide of Color in 1920. He viewed the world's civilizational and cultural groupings through the lens of the 'primary races', as he called them.

In so doing, this New England journalist, historian and polymath basically predicted the arc of our world's future. Once prominent, he was sidelined after the War and non'-personed after his death in 1950. Are you familiar with Stoddard, Morgoth?

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No I've heard of him but not read anything.

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Good morning, Morgoth. Stoddard wrote on many subjects....an immensely learned and well read, not to mention well travelled man. I strongly urge you to get hold of The Rising Tide of Color, his most famous and influential work (US President Harding thanked Stoddard for his contributions to the immigration legislation passed in the Twenties).

He was also the last journalist from what would become the Allied powers to be granted access to the Third Reich's senior figures, up to and including Hitler himself. He covered his stay in the memoir Into The Darkness (1940), another fascinating read.

But do read Rising Tide....it is incredible how prescient he was. Sorry about my typing....the bus to work is juddering and bouncing all over the place.

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With Russia you are mining a rich seam, there is something about Tolstoy being explanatory and Dostoyevsky being revelatory. Tolstoy explores an ideal world of European aesthetics transposed onto the Russian Steppe a nexus of man made beauty and nature's. I think the Tsars bought into this idea too for the future for Russia. The Bolsheviks had other ideas. Very topical, will follow with interest.

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