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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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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