by Paul Cudenec [This is from my new book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] We have seen that there is a fundamental dislocation here, a deep gulf between the reality of contemporary society and the way in which we are meant to live. In so many ways, the modern system is the exact … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Yearning
by Paul Cudenec [This is from my new book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] How can it be that so many of us knew, deep down, that there was something not right about this society, even without the help of Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab? We have, after all, never known anything else. … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Remembering
by Paul Cudenec Imagine, for a moment, that you are part of the criminocracy. Yes, I know that's not easy for anyone with a modicum of self-respect, ethics or humanity, but try to put yourself there, nonetheless. OK. Now imagine that, for whatever self-destructive reason, you want to bring down that criminocracy from within, by … Continue reading Giving the game away: the criminocracy’s fatal own goal
by Paul Cudenec [This is from my new 2024 book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays. An overview can be found here and W.D. James's preface can also be read on his blog] A deep sense of the intrinsic lack of value in modern life always lurks somewhere in the hearts of those of … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Realising
by Paul Cudenec When one constantly decries the state of the modern world and calls for the founding of a free and healthy organic society, it is inevitable that readers are going to ask how exactly this might happen. The answer is a complex one and, in many ways, has been the subject of everything … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom and other essays
by Paul Cudenec Forty years have now passed since the year in which George Orwell situated his imaginary dystopian society. The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was never meant to be a literal prophecy, of course, but, for the first three-and-a-half decades after its publication in 1949, it held a powerful hold on the public imagination, at … Continue reading 1984/2024 – the hidden hope in Orwell’s warning
by Paul Cudenec I am frequently disappointed to see people clinging rigidly to binary positions, imagining that opposing one particular nasty militarist empire, corrupt political party or manipulative dogma automatically involves throwing one's lot in with the rival that has been presented as its polar opposite. And yet, at the same time, I have often … Continue reading Seeing the whole truth with a three-dimensional outlook
by Paul Cudenec One of the big questions facing all of us trapped inside today's increasingly totalitarian global system is 'How did we get here?' How was it ever possible that human beings, once as free as every other wild creature on the planet, were able to be captured by a small minority of their … Continue reading Marxist doublethink and the disabling of resistance
We present here an in-depth conversation between two regular Winter Oak contributors - W.D. James, who teaches philosophy in Kentucky, USA, and runs the Philosopher's Holler blog, and English dissident writer Paul Cudenec, who also has a personal blog on substack and whose books are all available as free pdfs here. W.D. James: What first … Continue reading Traditionalism, anarchism and the urgent need for righteous revolt: a dialogue
by Paul Cudenec Having written a couple of recent articles advancing an anti-industrialist position, I have been reminded that this viewpoint is very much a minority one, even amongst those with whom I am generally in agreement. I know that to many it seems like an utterly outlandish proposition. "What, no electricity? We'd all just … Continue reading Seven reasons why I am an anti-industrialist
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