by rosswcalvin | Oct 3, 2025 | Aesthetics, Prometheism
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of Fire.” – Gustav Mahler Atlas Overthrown Atlas, the burden-bearer, the world-holder, is not what he seems. Atlas does not represent a heroic burden-bearing of the weight of the world’s concerns, like...
by rosswcalvin | Sep 1, 2024 | Aesthetics, Prometheism
“I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.” – Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Man is the sculptor and the sculpted. Just as Prometheus fashions Man out of clay, like a sculptor would, and...
by rosswcalvin | Dec 15, 2023 | Geopolitics, Prometheism
The War on Metacognitive Integrity – Part IV Everything in the postwar West is in fact, referential to the war. The lines on the map, the institutions, the sense of the world we live in, the zeitgeist all arise from the pornographic and murderous contortions of...
by rosswcalvin | Oct 13, 2023 | Geopolitics, Localism
What if all conventional advice is bad advice? We don’t live in a one-size-fits-all world. Yet we have enjoyed this 40-year bull market in bonds, populations raging up to 8 billions, a permanent plateau of American Order ambrosia. And so we thought everyone was the...
by rosswcalvin | May 3, 2023 | Geopolitics
On the verge of history’s first wave of globalization, Victorian imperialists venturing into foreign and undiscovered countries had to maintain an ever-deeper connection to the ways of the motherland. The temptations of the opium to wash away the grueling and the...
