27 Dec 2011

Rene Guenon - Democracy Has No Dignity + DPRK Rant

A Voice Over of excerpts from Rene Guenon (from 1927), A great Thinker: Rene steadfastly refuses to allow any dignity to the word "democracy," which he takes as synonymous with modernity's mad insistence on equalizing all human achievement at the lowest level, the only level at which such a project could come near to completing itself. Source
Having received some flak for covering North Korea, Morris was pleasantly relieved to discover Rene Guenon, a French Philosopher who was quite critical of the West. From its idea of democracy to its compulsion to spread its materialistic civilisation. The second half of the video are quotes of Rene's.