The Mazeppist

A Transgressive Transcendentalist manifesto.

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Part Irish, part Dervish, ecstatic humanist, critical Modernist, transgressive Transcendentalist.

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:



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