Against enforced language.
Against the theatre of representation.
Jack Napes sets his satirical sights on Ireland's puppet democracy.
https://meonjournal.com/read/youre-not-my-ventriloquist-im-not-your-dummy
Against the theatre of representation.
Jack Napes sets his satirical sights on Ireland's puppet democracy.
https://meonjournal.com/read/youre-not-my-ventriloquist-im-not-your-dummy
MEON
You’re Not My Ventriloquist; I’m Not Your Dummy — MEON
Representative democracy is all about the illusion of control. The belief that the system will be responsive. That one can effect change if only the right button is pushed a sufficient number of times.
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Against enforced language. Against the theatre of representation. Jack Napes sets his satirical sights on Ireland's puppet democracy. https://meonjournal.com/read/youre-not-my-ventriloquist-im-not-your-dummy
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Among other things, the motifs of a golden comb and a Spéirbhean enticing the melancholy poet from a hilltop seemed to offer the perfect opportunity to set it in subtle dialogue with the Aisling poetry of Gaelic Ireland. Hopefully the reader shall think the same.
MEON is proud to present an Irish translation of ‘Die Lorelei’, a poem by the famous German Romanticist poet Heinrich Heine.
https://meonjournal.com/read/an-lorelei
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‘An Lorelei’ le Heinrich Heine — MEON
MEON is proud to present an Irish translation of ‘Die Lorelei’, a poem by the famous German Romanticist poet Heinrich Heine.
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"Every side from socialist Republicans to dissident nationalists want to claim the man from Garryowen, truly no one can claim his all-encompassing commitment to reviving the Irish nation."
Seán South as a symbol of nationalist martyrdom.
By Creeve Rua:
https://meonjournal.com/read/sean-south
Seán South as a symbol of nationalist martyrdom.
By Creeve Rua:
https://meonjournal.com/read/sean-south
MEON
Seán Southism: the Philosophy of Metaphysical Sacrifice and Martyrdom — MEON
When you die, will there be anything remotely resembling this? Depending on who you are, you may have thousands of followers, and personally know hundreds of people, but would a single see you as a martyr like Seán South?
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"MEP Tomasz Froelich argued that in an era of American, Russian, and Chinese power-politics, European patriots must articulate a pan-European project of their own to ensure our continent’s sovereignty and survival."
Dawid ✍️ for MEON
https://meonjournal.com/read/pro-europeanism-on-the-right
Dawid ✍️ for MEON
https://meonjournal.com/read/pro-europeanism-on-the-right
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Pro-Europeanism on the Right? Reflections on the Charlemagne Club’s Recent Event — MEON
MEP Tomasz Froelich argued that in an era of American, Russian, and Chinese power-politics, European patriots must articulate a pan-European project of their own to ensure our continent’s sovereignty and survival.
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"The Epsteins of the world would have us be Englishmen: naïve, civically minded, conformist, trusting, decent, reticent to rock the boat. Let us defy him. Let us be Irishmen: wary, uncouth, defiant — like the men of Soloheadbeg"
The Epstein files — a watershed moment in Western politics?
https://meonjournal.com/read/on-the-regime-in-light-of-epstein
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On the Regime in Light of Epstein — MEON
The Epsteins of the world would have us be Englishmen: naïve, civically minded, conformist, trusting, decent, reticent to rock the boat. Let us defy him. Let us be Irishmen: wary, uncouth, defiant — like the men of Soloheadbeg.
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"While all unique in their own way, it almost seems like every developed country has produced a national prophet of rootedness and independence against neoliberal progressivism."
International Fennellism?
Anti-capitalism and nationalism, staples of Fennell's work, are by no means sui generis.
Creeve Rua explores theorists who took up the mantle of the traditional and the local, against international capitalism.
https://meonjournal.com/read/international-fennelism
International Fennellism?
Anti-capitalism and nationalism, staples of Fennell's work, are by no means sui generis.
Creeve Rua explores theorists who took up the mantle of the traditional and the local, against international capitalism.
https://meonjournal.com/read/international-fennelism
MEON
International Fennellism?: The great populist critics of neoliberal modernity — MEON
While all unique in their own way, it almost seems like every developed country has produced a national prophet of rootedness and independence against neoliberal progressivism.
MEON
"While all unique in their own way, it almost seems like every developed country has produced a national prophet of rootedness and independence against neoliberal progressivism." International Fennellism? Anti-capitalism and nationalism, staples of Fennell's…
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International Fennellism?
For MEON Journal, Creeve Rua explores theorists who - like Desmond Fennell - took up the mantle of the traditional and the local, against international capitalism.
READ:
https://t.co/2MhTrGwL97
For MEON Journal, Creeve Rua explores theorists who - like Desmond Fennell - took up the mantle of the traditional and the local, against international capitalism.
READ:
https://t.co/2MhTrGwL97
"No manifestos. No chestertonian chungus poetry clubs. BMI: LOW. Chiseled - yes. Archive everything, study, research, read - SLIENCIO. Then produce. That is our formula"
Do we need another 2nd rate opinion piece piggybacking off prevailing concerns?
No.
https://meonjournal.com/read/smash-art
Do we need another 2nd rate opinion piece piggybacking off prevailing concerns?
No.
https://meonjournal.com/read/smash-art
MEON
Smash Art — Why We Don’t Need Right Wing Art — MEON
No manifestos. No chestertonian chungus poetry clubs. BMI: LOW. Chiseled - yes. Archive everything, study, research, read - SLIENCIO. Then produce. That is our formula. We have not once gained political power, yet the world is frightful before an apparition.…
"This ethnic denial of the Ulster-Brit is widespread throughout the history of the national movement. Only a few nationally minded thinkers like Desmond Fennel accept the reality of the Ulster-Brit"
Cennétig on the history and identity of the Ulster-Brit.
https://meonjournal.com/read/ulster-brit
Cennétig on the history and identity of the Ulster-Brit.
https://meonjournal.com/read/ulster-brit
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The Ulster-Brit — MEON
This ethnic denial of the Ulster-Brit is widespread throughout the history of the national movement. Only a few nationally minded thinkers like Desmond Fennel accept the reality of the Ulster-Brit.
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"The discerning among the readership, those accustomed to thinking holistically, may have discerned the intimate interconnection between fear, identity as commodity, saturated fats (putatively central to our national character), and the spectre of the IRISH MAMMY. Our Donny, longs for the warm embrace of the antenatal; the security of the womb. Perfect fodder for Freud; if the Hannibal of Vienna were still with us, he’d amend his famous adage about the Irish. A most primeval, yet pertinent fetish. I’m not saying that Donny wants to sleep with his mother, but…"
What is Affirmative Action Irishness, and how does it benefit the regime?
Check out the latest MEON article to find out:
https://meonjournal.com/read/irishness-as-affirmative-action
What is Affirmative Action Irishness, and how does it benefit the regime?
Check out the latest MEON article to find out:
https://meonjournal.com/read/irishness-as-affirmative-action
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Irishness as Affirmative Action? — MEON
The concomitant process of profit and chungus-Irishness-patronage erode whatever of robustness and seriousness partakes vitally today of the Irish tradition.
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"This would be a work tackling the proper Catholic role in warning against, and regulating, the expansion of destructive technologies, with runaway AI as the main antagonist."
Creeve Rua on Ireland’s imprint on a papacy facing the machine age.
https://meonjournal.com/read/irish-to-the-core
"This would be a work tackling the proper Catholic role in warning against, and regulating, the expansion of destructive technologies, with runaway AI as the main antagonist."
Creeve Rua on Ireland’s imprint on a papacy facing the machine age.
https://meonjournal.com/read/irish-to-the-core
MEON
Irish to the core: how Chicago social thought has shaped Pope Leo XIV — MEON
This would be a work tackling the proper Catholic role in warning against, and regulating, the expansion of destructive technologies, with runaway AI as the main antagonist.
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Filth in Flanders: ‘Ex Drummer’ mires the viewer in the underbelly of small town lumpenproletariat existence terrorised by a manipulative Mephistophelean intellectual.
Was the bloodshed for the sake of whim or cosmic salvation?
Ulick Fitzhugh for MEON.
https://meonjournal.com/read/horror-of-ex-drummer
Was the bloodshed for the sake of whim or cosmic salvation?
Ulick Fitzhugh for MEON.
https://meonjournal.com/read/horror-of-ex-drummer
MEON
NO FUTURE, NO HOPE – The Horror of ‘Ex Drummer’ — MEON
Filth in Flanders: ‘Ex Drummer’ mires the viewer in the seedy subaltern underbelly of small town lumpenproletariat existence terrorised by a manipulative Mephistophelean intellectual. Was the bloodshed for the sake of whim or cosmic salvation, asks Ulick…
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"Visitors to both sites will be afforded the opportunity to contemplate the meaning and implications of the concept of utility and the ephemeral nature of, as we are sure you will agree, everything."
A satire of mammonism by Jack Napes.
https://meonjournal.com/read/gross-domestic-product
A satire of mammonism by Jack Napes.
https://meonjournal.com/read/gross-domestic-product
MEON
Gross Domestic Product — MEON
Visitors to both sites will be afforded the opportunity to contemplate the meaning and implications of the concept of utility and the ephemeral nature of, as we are sure you will agree, everything.
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"Today, sterile Belgian social democracy plays the role of WASPs, with Moroccans taking the place of the Irish and Sicilians."
Narco Gangs.
Islamic Fundamentalism.
A state no one believes in.
Thomas O'Reilly on Modern Brussels.
https://meonjournal.com/read/belgium-narco
Narco Gangs.
Islamic Fundamentalism.
A state no one believes in.
Thomas O'Reilly on Modern Brussels.
https://meonjournal.com/read/belgium-narco
MEON
Belgium's New Visigoths: How Narco-Politics Displaced Islamism in Brussels — MEON
Today, sterile Belgian social democracy plays the role of WASPs, with Moroccans taking the place of the Irish and Sicilians.
"MEON is proud to present a translation of Nichita Stănescu's many "Ars Poetica" pieces, reminiscing on the powers of the file across cultures and time, written as he neared the end of his own life."
https://meonjournal.com/read/ars-poetica-le-nichita-stnescu
https://meonjournal.com/read/ars-poetica-le-nichita-stnescu
MEON
Ars Poetica le Nichita Stănescu — MEON
MEON is proud to present a translation of Nichita Stănescu's many "Ars Poetica" pieces, reminiscing on the powers of the file across cultures and time, written as he neared the end of his own life.
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