I recently gave an illustrated talk, entitled 'For the love of Sophia: thinking our way back to natural harmony', which one of the organisers of the event suggested I might like to share online. So here it is! Paul Cudenec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjOqLcbj3OE Written sources: The spirit of Sophia: wild air and wisdom The spirit of Sophia: … Continue reading Thinking our way back to natural harmony
[This is Paul Cudenec’s contribution to Nevermore’s Against the Rising Tide of Nihilism series and he reads it here] Many years ago I penned a (never-published) novel entitled The Extremist, which recounted the adventures of an angry and disillusioned lad from the London suburbs who joined an openly nihilist political organisation. He soon discovered that there was nothing that … Continue reading Nihilism: A Modern Sickness
by Paul Cudenec I use the word "authentic" quite a lot in my writing: it describes, for me, an essential quality that is at the heart of everything I consider good. Like many adjectives, it means slightly different things in different contexts, but its most obvious use is as a synonym of "genuine". Its opposite, … Continue reading Authenticity: a quality to defeat quantity
by Paul Cudenec The nature writer Richard Jefferies, a great inspiration for me, explained once why he always went for the same country walk and did not go elsewhere for a change. He wrote: “I do not want change; I want the same old and loved things, the same wild flowers, the same trees and … Continue reading Change for the better?
by Paul Cudenec The global criminocracy’s ongoing domination of our societies depends on deceit – constant, blatant deceit in every sphere. Its biggest lie of all is that there is no alternative to the dehumanised, centralised and degraded future it has lined up for us. It depicts never-ending industrial “development” as inevitable and necessary, a … Continue reading Organic radicalism: challenging the system to its core
by Paul Cudenec There have always been two prongs to my writing - as well as analysing and exposing the criminocratic agenda, I try to counter it with a coherent alternative worldview. I have often pointed out that these two prongs belong to one and the same political pitchfork, but I think I got this … Continue reading A self-conscious philosophy of resistance
by W.D. James He say I know you, you know meOne thing I can tell you is you got to be free Come together, right now, over mei - The Beatles The Organic Radicalii school of thought hinges on the possibility of an organic social order which, in turn, provides the basis and motivation for … Continue reading Goods, Desire, and Community (Revolutionary Aristotelianism Part 1)
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 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
by Paul Cudenec Today marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of Herbert Read, one of the thinkers who has most shaped my own political philosophy. This seems like an appropriate occasion on which to share the profile of him that I wrote for the organic radicals website. The film linked at the end is … Continue reading A poet against “this foul industrial epoch”
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