(In this post I am going to use the term the American republic to represent all of modern-day, WESTERN civilisation).
DONALD TRUMP - THE NEW, AMERICAN CAESAR
Something amazing occurred to me recently. I was watching coverage of of Donald Trump arriving at a UFC ("ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP") event in Madison Square Gardens on the evening of 16th of November,, this year. The video began by showing (who was now President elect), walking down a corridor in the MSG complex that led into the main arena. He was flanked by by a group of "MAGA Men" that included: RFK Jr; Elon Musk; Tulsi Gabbard; Mike Johnson; ; Vivek Ramiswami and Joe Rogan, among others. When Trump emerged into the packed arena, a deafening roar of cheering broke out and continued like a long wave of loud,, rolling thunder as Trump made his way towards his seat next to the UFC fight cage in the MSG's arena. Before he took his seat, to the astonishment of of the huge crowd and everyone watching around the world, UFC champion, John Jones approached Trump and handed him his championship belt as a gesture of heart-felt admiration.
In short, this celebration of Donald Trump's triumphant return to Madison Square Gardens really was an event unparalleled in American history.
Even fake news, CNN, who reported on Trump's return to MSG the next day were in awe with one of their politicos on the panel of the "Inside Politics " show blurting out....
"It really looks like ancient Rome. This conquering Republican, Caesar, who's going into the Colosseum and everyone's cheering and he's got his political gladiators with him; that appearance isn't just about him enjoying the applause. He's sending a message to the Senate, namely, not only are you entertained, but these are my people - are you willing to fight cause here's who I am."
This flippant, throw-a-way remark comparing Trump to the ancient Roman Republic's conquering Caesar was, in fact, an uncannily profound and accurate observation. It (unwittingly) draws directly on the brilliant civilizational theory of of a German scholar (a philosopher of history) named, Oswald Spengler. Spengler was a brilliant man, who is famous for his seminal masterpiece, "The Decline of the West", which was published about 100 years ago and is still widely.
read today.
OSWALD SPENGLER'S CONCEPT OF "THE CAESAR FIGURE."
In "the Decline' Spengler observed that throughout history, populations who are concerned over their declining civilizations - populations who are witnessing their social order suffer severe stagnation and political paralysis almost always end up pinning their hopes on what Spengler called a "Caesar Figure." The "Caesar Figure" is the mythic prototype of a man who can actually rescue the nation. The Caesar figure is an individual who rises up and publicly fights for, and defends, the civilization and society from the forces who seek to destroy it. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE SEEING WITH TRUMP.
.
The key here is because of where America is right now (onits period as a Republic) - because of the extreme peril and the VERY REAL WOKE, MARXIST - INFLICTED cultural decline that Americans have all been witnessing to their utter utter horror (in particular, throughout the past four years of the catastrophic Biden administration),. Trump's mass appeal is NOT ideological, it is NOT political, it is NOT economic, it is NOT intellectualist - it is not analytical in any of these senses. Trump's mass appeal is MYTHIC, Americans are now in the very real realm of MYTH when it comes to Trump. This is precisely because more Americans than ever before fear the actual destruction of American society.
This is why they see Trump in very ancient, mythic, heroic terms, just like any other population facing the same threat as America is would do.
SO WHAT IS THE HEROIC MYTH THAT TRUMP EMBODIES AND HAS AWAKENED SUCH MASS ADORATION AND SUPPORT?
The mythic appeal of Trump in modern-day America involves his re-awakening of the classic conception of MANHOOD.. Trump has galvanised men like no one else.. Trump's complete dominance with men in the recent election was the ONE CONSISTENT FACTOR ACROSS ALL DEMOGRAPHIC LINES IN AMERICA. In the November 5th Presidential election Trump won...
* Married men by 22 points
* Unmarried men by 2 points
*White men by 23 points
*Suburban men by 27 points
*Non - college White men by 40 points
*College educated White men by 3 points
* He also won with men of every single age demographic - he won the youngest of men, he won the oldest of men.
* Even across racial lines the overwhelming support for Trump among men was staggering. He outright won Hispanic men by 12 points, and he won the highest number of Black men - 21% - of any republican in half a century.
TRUMP HAS PROVIDED AN ANSWER TO AMERICA'S CRISIS OF MASCULINITY
What Trump has done is provide an answer to the current crisis of masculinity in the midst of America's WOKE, MARXIST-INDUCED cultural rot. In an ever more secularised United States where patriarchy is routinely condemned as an oppressive evil, men have found themselves increasingly disenfranchised from the historic gender norms that have governed Western societies for centuries. And what Trump embodies more than anything else is the triumphant return of these norms. So what are they ?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A MAN IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE OF THE TERM ?
The classical, ancient conception of manhood understood the man as a microcosm of the cosmos literally created in the image of the gods. In classical cosmography the world was made up of FOUR cosmic elements" EARTH; AIR; F and WATER, that's why the number FOUR (4) is a cosmic number. In the Biblical account, the first man was named, "ADAM " and it is not a coincidence his name has 4 letters. Nor is it a coincidence that there are 4 Gospels: MATTHEW; MARK; LUKE and JOHN, recalibrating the entire cosmos around , Christ, who is the second ADAM.
At the heart of the Biblical account, ADAM'S manhood centres on exercising DOMINION throughout the whole of creation ("DOMINION" originally meant "to care for and nurture"). ADAM was given dominion over the creation by God, and this could be understood as his great "commission" in the sense of a commission being a formal instruction or command that is given by an authority to a person/persons to carry out some task/resp.
The very first and most fundamental act that ADAM'S dominion involved - besides naming the animals and receiving his bride (who came from a rib in his side) was that he was supposed to slay the serpent.. He was supposed to kill the serpent in order to defend his bride from it, AND HE FAILED. He failed to crush the head of the snake (which signifies Satan). That's why , Christ, who is the second ADAM, defends HIS bride, the Church, which comes from His side - of blood and water, the baptism and Communion - that flowed from His right side on the Cross. He defends His bride by crushing the head of the serpent as he is crucified on Calvary - Calvary means "the place of the skull" - and thereby crushed the head of the serpent.
OUR ENDURING FASCINATION WITH THE LEGENDS OF THE DRAGON-SLAYER
All of the historical literary tales of Knights in shining armour risking their lives to save "damsels in distress" who have been captured by fire-breathing dragons are allegories. The dragons represent evil/darkness while the Knights repress moral virtue/light. The struggle between the Knight and the dragon is necessarily a fight to the death, where the dragon (evil) MUST be killed.
In modern day America men have lost their (classical) masculinity, they are no carry out they leadership role and the role of providing guidance to woman in their personal relationships with them, nor in society in general. Men no longer feel they are responsible for protecting and defending woman. This is because in America the feminist movement, Marxist-inspired Woke ideology and other crazy cultural poison has allowed women to run amok and do what they like. The result of this is cultural degeneration the has seen America become a nation in decline.
Many American women openly attack males now for their "toxic masculinity", and generally speaking have little respect for men. Rather they constantly attack the American patriarchy as an evil, oppressive force in society and actively seek to dismantle it. Women do not want men to protect and defend them from harm, nor to provide any kind of authoritative guidance wrt to avoiding perils in life. They refuse to be told that feminism is a crazy movement that has caused a shit-load of misery, suffering and destruction in America, they refuse to be told that WOKE movement and it leaders like: Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey; AOC; Joy Reid and Kamala Harris are pea-brained, fucking cretins. They are soft-targets for every species of cultural Marxism that has sprung up in America since the 1960s. The ultimate result is the kind of social/cultural chaos and disorder America has witnessed over the past FOUR years. This is what happen in a Western society when it is emasculated and women are allowed to do and think whatever they like without any real men around to put the brakes on, take control and set things in order again !!
HAIL TRUMP - THE GREAT AMERICAN DRAGON-SLAYER !!
Donald Trump embodies the mythic, heroic dragon-slaying masculinity of the Arthurian legend, and he has re- awakened it throughout America for a time such as this. Donald Trump is not the hero of the people merely because of what he has done for the American nation, but because of what he has done for Americans- PARTICULARLY AMERICAN MEN. He has restored to them the dignity of what it means to be a TRUE MAN, and as such to rescue America from the forces that would destroy it, together as one. That is what you saw on the 5th November, 2024, and this is what is about to change America and the world forever.
Dachshund Dawg
Dachshund the Loyal TRUMPER Hound !!
DONALD TRUMP - THE NEW, AMERICAN CAESAR
Something amazing occurred to me recently. I was watching coverage of of Donald Trump arriving at a UFC ("ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP") event in Madison Square Gardens on the evening of 16th of November,, this year. The video began by showing (who was now President elect), walking down a corridor in the MSG complex that led into the main arena. He was flanked by by a group of "MAGA Men" that included: RFK Jr; Elon Musk; Tulsi Gabbard; Mike Johnson; ; Vivek Ramiswami and Joe Rogan, among others. When Trump emerged into the packed arena, a deafening roar of cheering broke out and continued like a long wave of loud,, rolling thunder as Trump made his way towards his seat next to the UFC fight cage in the MSG's arena. Before he took his seat, to the astonishment of of the huge crowd and everyone watching around the world, UFC champion, John Jones approached Trump and handed him his championship belt as a gesture of heart-felt admiration.
In short, this celebration of Donald Trump's triumphant return to Madison Square Gardens really was an event unparalleled in American history.
Even fake news, CNN, who reported on Trump's return to MSG the next day were in awe with one of their politicos on the panel of the "Inside Politics " show blurting out....
"It really looks like ancient Rome. This conquering Republican, Caesar, who's going into the Colosseum and everyone's cheering and he's got his political gladiators with him; that appearance isn't just about him enjoying the applause. He's sending a message to the Senate, namely, not only are you entertained, but these are my people - are you willing to fight cause here's who I am."
This flippant, throw-a-way remark comparing Trump to the ancient Roman Republic's conquering Caesar was, in fact, an uncannily profound and accurate observation. It (unwittingly) draws directly on the brilliant civilizational theory of of a German scholar (a philosopher of history) named, Oswald Spengler. Spengler was a brilliant man, who is famous for his seminal masterpiece, "The Decline of the West", which was published about 100 years ago and is still widely.
read today.
OSWALD SPENGLER'S CONCEPT OF "THE CAESAR FIGURE."
In "the Decline' Spengler observed that throughout history, populations who are concerned over their declining civilizations - populations who are witnessing their social order suffer severe stagnation and political paralysis almost always end up pinning their hopes on what Spengler called a "Caesar Figure." The "Caesar Figure" is the mythic prototype of a man who can actually rescue the nation. The Caesar figure is an individual who rises up and publicly fights for, and defends, the civilization and society from the forces who seek to destroy it. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE SEEING WITH TRUMP.
.
The key here is because of where America is right now (onits period as a Republic) - because of the extreme peril and the VERY REAL WOKE, MARXIST - INFLICTED cultural decline that Americans have all been witnessing to their utter utter horror (in particular, throughout the past four years of the catastrophic Biden administration),. Trump's mass appeal is NOT ideological, it is NOT political, it is NOT economic, it is NOT intellectualist - it is not analytical in any of these senses. Trump's mass appeal is MYTHIC, Americans are now in the very real realm of MYTH when it comes to Trump. This is precisely because more Americans than ever before fear the actual destruction of American society.
This is why they see Trump in very ancient, mythic, heroic terms, just like any other population facing the same threat as America is would do.
SO WHAT IS THE HEROIC MYTH THAT TRUMP EMBODIES AND HAS AWAKENED SUCH MASS ADORATION AND SUPPORT?
The mythic appeal of Trump in modern-day America involves his re-awakening of the classic conception of MANHOOD.. Trump has galvanised men like no one else.. Trump's complete dominance with men in the recent election was the ONE CONSISTENT FACTOR ACROSS ALL DEMOGRAPHIC LINES IN AMERICA. In the November 5th Presidential election Trump won...
* Married men by 22 points
* Unmarried men by 2 points
*White men by 23 points
*Suburban men by 27 points
*Non - college White men by 40 points
*College educated White men by 3 points
* He also won with men of every single age demographic - he won the youngest of men, he won the oldest of men.
* Even across racial lines the overwhelming support for Trump among men was staggering. He outright won Hispanic men by 12 points, and he won the highest number of Black men - 21% - of any republican in half a century.
TRUMP HAS PROVIDED AN ANSWER TO AMERICA'S CRISIS OF MASCULINITY
What Trump has done is provide an answer to the current crisis of masculinity in the midst of America's WOKE, MARXIST-INDUCED cultural rot. In an ever more secularised United States where patriarchy is routinely condemned as an oppressive evil, men have found themselves increasingly disenfranchised from the historic gender norms that have governed Western societies for centuries. And what Trump embodies more than anything else is the triumphant return of these norms. So what are they ?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A MAN IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE OF THE TERM ?
The classical, ancient conception of manhood understood the man as a microcosm of the cosmos literally created in the image of the gods. In classical cosmography the world was made up of FOUR cosmic elements" EARTH; AIR; F and WATER, that's why the number FOUR (4) is a cosmic number. In the Biblical account, the first man was named, "ADAM " and it is not a coincidence his name has 4 letters. Nor is it a coincidence that there are 4 Gospels: MATTHEW; MARK; LUKE and JOHN, recalibrating the entire cosmos around , Christ, who is the second ADAM.
At the heart of the Biblical account, ADAM'S manhood centres on exercising DOMINION throughout the whole of creation ("DOMINION" originally meant "to care for and nurture"). ADAM was given dominion over the creation by God, and this could be understood as his great "commission" in the sense of a commission being a formal instruction or command that is given by an authority to a person/persons to carry out some task/resp.
The very first and most fundamental act that ADAM'S dominion involved - besides naming the animals and receiving his bride (who came from a rib in his side) was that he was supposed to slay the serpent.. He was supposed to kill the serpent in order to defend his bride from it, AND HE FAILED. He failed to crush the head of the snake (which signifies Satan). That's why , Christ, who is the second ADAM, defends HIS bride, the Church, which comes from His side - of blood and water, the baptism and Communion - that flowed from His right side on the Cross. He defends His bride by crushing the head of the serpent as he is crucified on Calvary - Calvary means "the place of the skull" - and thereby crushed the head of the serpent.
OUR ENDURING FASCINATION WITH THE LEGENDS OF THE DRAGON-SLAYER
All of the historical literary tales of Knights in shining armour risking their lives to save "damsels in distress" who have been captured by fire-breathing dragons are allegories. The dragons represent evil/darkness while the Knights repress moral virtue/light. The struggle between the Knight and the dragon is necessarily a fight to the death, where the dragon (evil) MUST be killed.
In modern day America men have lost their (classical) masculinity, they are no carry out they leadership role and the role of providing guidance to woman in their personal relationships with them, nor in society in general. Men no longer feel they are responsible for protecting and defending woman. This is because in America the feminist movement, Marxist-inspired Woke ideology and other crazy cultural poison has allowed women to run amok and do what they like. The result of this is cultural degeneration the has seen America become a nation in decline.
Many American women openly attack males now for their "toxic masculinity", and generally speaking have little respect for men. Rather they constantly attack the American patriarchy as an evil, oppressive force in society and actively seek to dismantle it. Women do not want men to protect and defend them from harm, nor to provide any kind of authoritative guidance wrt to avoiding perils in life. They refuse to be told that feminism is a crazy movement that has caused a shit-load of misery, suffering and destruction in America, they refuse to be told that WOKE movement and it leaders like: Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey; AOC; Joy Reid and Kamala Harris are pea-brained, fucking cretins. They are soft-targets for every species of cultural Marxism that has sprung up in America since the 1960s. The ultimate result is the kind of social/cultural chaos and disorder America has witnessed over the past FOUR years. This is what happen in a Western society when it is emasculated and women are allowed to do and think whatever they like without any real men around to put the brakes on, take control and set things in order again !!
HAIL TRUMP - THE GREAT AMERICAN DRAGON-SLAYER !!
Donald Trump embodies the mythic, heroic dragon-slaying masculinity of the Arthurian legend, and he has re- awakened it throughout America for a time such as this. Donald Trump is not the hero of the people merely because of what he has done for the American nation, but because of what he has done for Americans- PARTICULARLY AMERICAN MEN. He has restored to them the dignity of what it means to be a TRUE MAN, and as such to rescue America from the forces that would destroy it, together as one. That is what you saw on the 5th November, 2024, and this is what is about to change America and the world forever.
Dachshund Dawg
Dachshund the Loyal TRUMPER Hound !!
