“…I. The New Theologians of Crisis
At the dawn of the 2010s, a strange confluence began to form between Russian Eurasianism and Western populism.
In Moscow, Alexander Dugin was refining his vision of a post-liberal, post-modern world in The Fourth Political Theory (2009).
In Washington and London, Steve Bannon was translating the apocalyptic determinism of The Fourth Turning into a nationalist political strategy.
And in Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel was fusing Carl Schmitt’s political theology and René Girard’s scapegoat theory into a prophetic obsession with the Antichrist—what WIRED later called “a high-brow version of MAGA End-Times theology.”
Each man rejected liberal modernity as spiritually exhausted. Each believed crisis was not failure but revelation.
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Drawing on Julius Evola’s esoteric reading of the Kali Yuga, Dugin declared that the modern world had entered its final, dark cycle—an age of inversion and decay.
Russia’s sacred mission, he argued, was to serve as the katechon, the restrainer of the Antichrist, holding back the chaos of Western secularism.
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Evola’s injunction – “Ride the tiger to its collapse” – became the unspoken motto of the digital right…”
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Aleksandr Dugin Embraces Aleister Crowley
…”Remember, Dugin wrote the books for Putins managerial class what position does someone imbued with the arts of the esoteric have in high governmental positions?…”