The Mazeppist
A Transgressive Transcendentalist manifesto.
About Me
- Name: Sidi Hamid Benengeli
- Location: Dar ul-Fikr, Colorado, United States
Part Irish, part Dervish, ecstatic humanist, critical Modernist, transgressive Transcendentalist.
Sunday, July 30, 2017
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Friday, July 21, 2017
The Sign Of Ishmael
The Book of J gives us an Ishmael who is a wild and contentious hunter; his importance in the unfolding of the Divine plan is suppressed. Perhaps this is to be expected from an author anxious to legitimize the younger son of Abraham (i.e., Isaac) at the elder's expense. In any case, to be born under the Sign of Ishmael is to be born under the Sign of Contradiction.
God bless the disenfranchised contrarians who insist upon Ishmaelite and Gnostic constructions of Biblical religion!
Thursday, July 20, 2017
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Whither Europe?
That a moralist of Andre Malraux's stature could sink into near oblivion within a few decades of his death speaks volumes for the current state of European culture.
Hear Wittgenstein: "...the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value, but simply of certain means of expressing this value, yet the fact remains that I have no sympathy for the current of European civilization and do not understand its goals, if it has any." (Culture & Value, 1930).
No worries, though; we can always blame these people for Europe's failures: