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Dr John Dunn
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The Common Thread
"We cannot help noticing that, like all propagandists, the apostles of tolerance, truth to tell, are very often the most intolerant of men." René Guénon (East and West.)
The common thread running through my political and philosophical thought has been the belief in transcendence, in the sense of surpassing or rising above the present human situation.
On this website the common thread will run through blogs, currrent affairs, politics, philosophy, spirituality, biography and book reviews.
John Dunn.
René Guénon and other traditionalists 
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Authentically Right?
The New Right, Eurasianism or the Fourth Political Theory. Why are these important? Well they offer the only coherent political theory in opposition to the dominant political and cultural paradigm, namely neo-liberalism.
John Dunn.
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Quote every hour:
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound
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René Guénon
In many respects René Guénon lead the the departure from Western capitalist values into the traditionalism that others were to follow. Guénon is essential reading for those confused by modern times and seeking for an alternative weltanschauung outside of the liberal-democratic consensus.
John Dunn.
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Alain de Benoist, a metapolitical perspective
Just as a flavour of where these pages will be going in the future, here are just a few thoughts that I soon hope to be developing into a coherent body of work through blogs and features.
- The new Eurasianism and Alexandr Dugin
- Alain de Benoist
- Jure Vujic and the idea of multipolarity in global politics
- The French New Right
- Thomas Carlyle, the British Nietzsche
- RH Tawney’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
- Imran Hosein on the prohibition of usury
- Ezra Pound on usury.
I’d like to take a lead from the French New Right and work to a metapolitical perspective. What they say in just a small part of their manifesto sums up this outlook nicely.
Metapolitics is not politics by other means. It is neither a "strategy" to impose intellectual hegemony, nor an attempt to discredit other possible attitudes or agendas. It rests solely on the premise that ideas play a fundamental role in collective consciousness and, more generally, in human history. Through their works, Heraclitus, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx all triggered decisive revolutions, whose impact is still being felt today. History is a result of human will and action, but always within the framework of convictions, beliefs and representations which provide meaning and direction.
John Dunn.
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