In part two of the Ius Publicum Europeaum Series, I am once again joined by our new political theory cohost, Merctores to discuss the fruits of Hugo Grotius’s labors that gave life to European public law and the rise of the nation state: the Peace of Westphalia. It is in this peace that the European consensus was cemented for 300 years, with empires being outsourced to possessions overseas, and the German people never truly recovering from the war that begged for this peace in the first place: the Thirty Years War. With the exception of somewhat grander conflicts like the Nine Years War and Seven Years War, the consensus of Ius Publicum Europeaum was maintained amidst the many punitive wars that it permitted from its inception. This status quo however would receive its first major threat and test in the form of the French Revolution and its consequences. The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 88 “Ius Publicum Europeaum Part 2” Featuring: Mercatores Enjoy.

The Son of God and Son of man has not only given humanity the opportunity for salvation of the soul, but He has called upon us in the material to act in accordance with our prayers on the road to Salvation. God saw it necessary to make material our Salvation by becoming flesh, and it is in a material world where the fruits of our Faith are visible through our demeanor reflecting theosis or through our deeds.I’m joined by Prismatic Orthodox to discuss prayer and it’s lack of fruits when not coupled with action in his beautifully spoken understanding of synergy in the Orthodox Faith.The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 87 “No Prayer Without Action”Featuring: Prismatic OrthodoxEnjoy.

For the first time on Blood & Rain, we have a co-host, a member of the Anti-Fragile Athletes and aspiring professor from the Netherlands, Adam who will go by the moniker, “Mercatores.” After two years of fascination with political theory, Mercatores will be my bi-weekly partner in crime on Blood & Rain when discussing various topics of political theory we both find a fascination in studying. The first of these episodes is regarding the work of Hugo Grotius, who was called by King Henry IV, “the miracle of Holland.” Grotius was a lawyer, jurist, professor, and political theorist whose key texts laid the groundwork for the Peace of Westphalia, European Public Law or “Ius Publicum Europeaum,” and the dawn of true mercantilism. In this part one episode, we chronicle the early life of Grotius, his influences from Spain in Francisco Vittoria and Francisco Suarez, his magnum opus, and the peace of Westphalia. In part two, we will discuss the impact of Westphalia upon the next 300 years and its influences on Nuremberg which dictates the order of the world today. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 86:“Ius Publicum Europeaum Pt 1”Featuring: Mercatores Enjoy.

The “Zillennials”and an intense Generation Z contingent displays the opposite behavior and sentiments of the Millennial and Generation Z majority. Within the context of America and Europe’s fracturing hold that has lasted since Nuremberg, the vacuum to come will likely be filled by the aforementioned faction with the backing of their fringe Generation X counterparts. The question is how much pain it will take to push through. The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 85: Gen Z VanguardFeaturing: J. Burden

The DR’s resident geopolitical analyst, The Prudentialist joins me to discuss how he got into geopolitics, his view on the current American situation both domestically and internationally, his conversion to Orthodox Christianity, his views on the necessary steps for Orthodox expansion in America, and his recent article on “re-enchantment” of the West.

In the midst of Orthodox Lent, I’m joined by the Instagram “DR Sphere” favorite, Principality of Spirit to discuss the importance of Orthodox laymen studying political theory and Orthodox political theory.

Knut Hamsun is a forgotten writer whose importance is second only to Shakespeare when discussing the world of fiction. This is the first of many episodes on the magnificent writer of Norway who pioneered stream of consciousness literature and inspired Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Sartre, as I look to become an amateur scholar on the man himself and his illustrious work.

Blood & Rain defined as a mission and ethos. De-centralized micro cold wars ahead.

Rest In Peace Cormac McCarthyRest In Peace John SteinbeckRest In Peace Ernest HemingwayThe American canon has its authors who are obvious, stable additions to its pantheon.Fitzgerald.Twain.Poe.Faulkner.Steinbeck.But then there are those who forge their own path who use America as the occasional backdrop, giving life to a new form of writing that can't be integrated into its canon due to their destructive essences.Hemingway wrote with a blank slate and wrote to go far beyond the frontier, far beyond where anyone could help him, writing something truly new, truly authentic.McCarthy wrote with red colored glasses, seeing fire, bloodshed, and vice color every being of all his characters within fictional, American borders. Add these to the open questions rooted in America asked by Steinbeck and you have the mind and style of an author writing new, not so shiny science fiction.The first of these is "Automaton," a story of decay, the war of two ideas for America's future, the ugly truths of the martial way, and rugged individualism for better or for worse. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 73"Automaton" Featuring: TR HudsonEnjoy.

Fitzgerald dethroned Mark Twain as America’s most important writer, for he wrote of the affliction that struck America. The same affliction of a malicious sentient spirit that plagued The British and German empires all the same. It’s intoxicating.It’s alluring. It was personified in Gatsby. The illusion of a higher ideal than God as proposed by Nietzsche under the influence of the same malicious spirit. Now they can all be called the beautiful and damned. The Blood & Rain Late Night Podcast #1:Fitzgerald & False godsEnjoy.

The Southern Gothic ethos is one bathed in blood, melancholy, and an immunity to modernity. It was born in the South’s defeat by their own blood brothers in a war that was both civil and not. This ethos gave America a canon of literature, poetry, and plays that have defined key attributes of not only the South but America entirely: sorrowful decline due to the shortcomings of fallen mankind. The lifespan of this movement is at its end, yet what came before it is what is closest to eternal in America. To move to the South is to inevitably adopt Southern pleasantries, affinities for all things gentile, and a slow, steady way of life the roots of which are traditionally English.The Southern Gothic ethos will die soon, and a founding myth will be required to move forward both as something rooted in the everlasting and something new. Greece: The IliadRome: The AeneidEngland: Paradise LostVirginia: “A Country Squire’s Notebook”The Blood & Rain Podcast: Episode 71“A Country Squire’s Notebook”Featuring: Paul Fahrenheidt

Virgil foreseeing the Messiah.Semitic terrorists slaughtering Romans en masse. The myth of “Judeo-Christian” values.The origins of Norse Pagan beliefs in Asia Minor.Other tribes being given a promise. The mythology of man is both less and more divisive in relation to the truth of Christendom both before and after it’s creation. The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 70“Old Covenants”Featuring: ÆluthemplarEnjoy.

A post-enlightenment worldview bears an inevitability of a neo-chivalric society.This is natural.For 90 years, the current suspension of traditional default settings has subdued many from understanding natural hierarchy.While one can not forecast the details, the metaphysics remain the same.The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 69“Neo-Chivalric Society”Featuring: Principality of SpiritEnjoy.

There are two states:Ready & Not“May we not be found fallen and idle, but watching and upright in activity ready to accompany him into the joy and divine palace of His Glory…”A man is called to readiness SpirituallyMentally Physically Im that order.The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 67:“Physical and Spiritual Readiness”Featuring: Father Michael ButlerEnjoy.

The world was burned, and the bedrock was destroyed. Grass roots movements and new subcultures will likely form out of communal planning and more likely by accident. It is metaphysically demanded. Top down decisions change political structure and the state of the economy. From the bottom comes what is undeniable and identifiable. Portland, Maine.Buffalo, New York.Charleston, South Carolina.El Cajon, California. Indianapolis, Indiana. What is next can come from anywhere. “May you live in interesting times.”The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 66 “New American Bedrock”Featuring: @totallynotanacreon

“I don’t know how things are going to change, I just know they’re going to.”The babbling and rambling and gambling in Washington and Westminster alike have in truth, little to do with the grand scheme of things. There was a false god being chased after off a cliff, and the trauma sustained has left countries in a state of amnesia.Who were we?Who are we?Who were we trying to be when chasing Utopia?Who should we be?How will we get there?“I don’t know, I just know it’s going to happen.” The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 65“Western Amnesia” Featuring: YouTube’s own J. BurdenLink in bio. Enjoy.

Everything is War. (And I’m tired of pretending it’s not.)Whether hot or cold, everything is War.The “Cold War,” as we knew it in the 20th Century is re-emerging in a “close to kinetic war” sense, but a new kind of granularity has emerged along with it.The return of the nation state appears imminent, and localism and nationalism alike will engulf our lives when this return takes place.The prelude to this Cold War that will catch fire in short, allegedly “random” instances is that of a Cold War of Culture.The ground is shift beneath every man’s feet, and the fabricated norms it supports will collapse as the shifts conclude.What will life look like after?Four men take the time to trade predictions in a long-awaited long form panel.What is clear is that great men are needed, identity will become tangible again, and Faith, vitality, and poetry will be in plain sight once more.The Blood & Rain PodcastEpisode 64:Culture Cold WarFeaturing: @letters_from_the_ruins @thesaxoncross and @zenoviel

Every Era in every field is ushered in by the work of a great man. Populism has nothing to offer in the realm of permanent solutions. Elite classes are replaced with new elites. To know the current elites is to know how to defeat them. To become the Great Men to usher in the New Era, listen to this Podcast. The Blood & Rain Podcast Episode 63 “Who Rules Us?” Featuring: @Zenoviel

“We are a People.” Wherever we are in this world, “We are a People” Blood & Rain Episode 62 “Rising from Ruin” Featuring: @Letters_from_the_Ruins

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