MOTHER TERESA: SAINT OF THE DARK NIGHT

by Andy Nowicki

The West could well be said to be experiencing its own collective "dark night of the soul" right now. The reasons for this are many, varied, and multifaceted, but at its core, the problem is a spiritual one. We have lost our moorings, and as such, have veered toward ruination. A faithless culture has no particular reason to struggle, grow, or thrive; it lacks any especial cause to value its own continuance.

This is not to say that all aspects of the West's current malaise are attributable to its current state of secularism, nor to claim that only believers can make positive contributions to the construction of a healthy and robust culture. The role of faith, however, can scarcely be ignored, as it offers a sort of transcendentally-grounded bulwark against despair, which in turn tends to arrest the advance of nihilism, thus holding decline at bay. With faith's erosion, however, this bulwark is broken, and all kinds of undesirable elements are free to surge in.

LAST LETTERS HOME FROM KAMIKAZE PILOTS

                                                                       

by Andy Nowicki

Lately, I have been reading The Divine Wind, a book which details the kamikaze campaign launched by the Japanese air force during the waning months of World War II.

Kamikaze literally translates to "divine wind"; the word obtains its origin from a legend of two mighty typhoons which were ostensibly sent by the gods to protect Japan from Mongol invasions in the thirteenth century. Of course the definition of the term with which we're most familiar is the one synonymous with "suicide pilot."

SPEAKING ART TO POWER, REDUX

left to right, Art vs. Power

At his Soundcloud page, Andy Nowicki reads his essay "Speaking Art to Power," posted earlier this year at Alternative Right.

Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/jnow1101/speaking-art-to-power

Read the text of the article here.