Tag: James J. O’Meara

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Francis Ford Coppola
Megalopolis: A Fable
Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne
Produced, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola

“This is typical of new directors, too many good ideas. Or, in this case, no ideas.” –Mystery Science Theater.[1]

“It was like watching a train wreck unfold day after day, week after week, and knowing that everybody there had tried their hardest to help the train wreck be avoided…. This sounds crazy to say, but there were times when we were all standing around going: ‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’” – Crew member quoted in The Guardian (more…)

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David J. Goodwin
Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft In Gotham
Fordham University Press, 2023

Part 2 (Read Part 1 here)

So this is the first angle to Goodwin’s book: Lovecraft’s abhorrent views crop up not only in conversations and private letters, but in his published fiction. (more…)

You can order Derek Hawthorne’s book Being & The Birds or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Heidegger (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) here.

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Derek Hawthorne‘s new book, Being and “The Birds,” was the subject of the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. Philosopher and film critic Hawthorne draws on the thought of Martin Heidegger to illuminate Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic film The Birds, about a series of savage and inexplicable bird attacks on Bodega Bay, a sleepy California fishing village. Hawthorne argues that The Birds depicts a Heideggerian “event” (Ereignis): a sudden and fundamental transformation of the meaning of everything. Modern men believe we are masters of our own destiny. Heidegger calls this “humanism” and rejects it completely. The Birds is an anti-humanist film. In the space of one weekend, all pretensions to the understanding and mastery of nature are shattered, and man is reduced to helplessness in the face of unfathomable mystery. (more…)

Francis Parker Yockey (right). Date, location, & friend unknown.

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IT will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. . . . — Herman Melville, “Extracts (SUPPLIED BY A SUB-SUB-LIBRARIAN),” Moby Dick

The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (more…)

You can buy James J. O’Meara’s Mysticism After Modernism here.

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James J. O’Meara has a book out, Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson, and Other Populist Gurus, published by Manticore Press. The book is about where mysticism intersects with culture and politics, rather than being some purely academic look at mysticism and the occult. It is also about thinkers who used magic to enact real-world change.

Much of the Right is dismissive or derisive of the occult, their criticisms ranging from conspiracy theories about evil Illuminati occultists to dismissing the New Age scene as being solely for Left-wing hippies. Regardless, there is a lot of crossover appeal and syncretic occultism. (more…)

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

Chapter Nine, “Europe and the Indo-Europeans,” addresses another required subject: the origins and development of the white race and its civilizations. These discussions, mixing science (genomes), soft science (anthropology), and “esoteric” science (Evola, again), usually make me want to lie down and take a nap — wake me when the Funnelbeaker Farmers annihilate the Corded Ware culture — but I think I now have the hang of this Indo-European business — the various ways the genetics of three peoples and the resulting cultures (male initiation, warrior bands, and caste systems) have intertwined in our history — thanks to The Golden One! (more…)

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

We’ve already mentioned Nietzsche’s concept of ressentiment,[1] and The Golden One unpacks this as someone who “blames the misfortunes of himself on someone else.” (more…)

You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s collection The Cultured Thug here.

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Every month in 2024, Greg Johnson will invite some of our authors and friends to read and discuss some of the best material from our catalog and more in what we are calling The Counter-Currents Book Club. The first meeting was held in place of our most recent Counter-Currents Radio broadcast, where Greg was joined by Margot Metroland, James J. O’Meara, and Kathryn S. to discuss our latest publication by Jonathan Bowden, The Cultured Thug. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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Jonathan Bowden
ed. Alex Kurtagić
Heat
London: The Palingenesis Project, 2017

Jonathan Bowden was Britain’s greatest orator. An autodidact who delved deeply into abstruse subjects, Bowden had a great affinity for those aspects of popular culture, religion, history, and philosophy that “impinge[d] on real matters” such as meaning and purpose. (more…)

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Marcus Follin (The Golden One)
Demigod Mentality
Legio Gloria, 2023

If someone truly believes himself to be blessed by the Gods, it eventually becomes true — this is the power of faith. — The Golden One (more…)

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Rainbow Albrecht
Space Vixen Trek Episode XIII: The Final Falafel
Smashwords, 2015

“Must you overly-nostalgic Judeans revive every old custom around here?”

Tired and depressed by what’s happening — again — in the Middle East? Wish someone would Make the Holy Land Fun Again?[1] Counter-Currents’ own Beau Albrecht has what you need! Are you going to take it? Are you man enough to take it? (more…)

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Greg Johnson was joined by accomplished authors John Derbyshire (website), Jim Goad, James J. O’Meara, Fred Reed, and Kathryn S. on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio in order to share their advice for aspiring writers. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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Gordon Peter Wilson
The Prophets of Gentilly Terrace: A New Orleans Novel
Austin, Tex.: Greenleaf Publishing Group, 2023

The idea was a selfish one, and it felt a lot like blackmail, but it was an opportunity to solve everyone’s problems. Such a sensitive matter required all of the diplomatic skills he had honed over the years as Burton Clayton’s bagman.

I greeted Gordon Peter Wilson’s first, previous, novel with enthusiasm, and that enthusiasm continues with this latest one. (more…)