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I'll have to concur with Sam Francis that dreams of the South seceding again are a distraction. .Īntipodean George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years

When the enemy comes, they aren't going to be asking which whites come from below the.īeau Albrecht The Honorable Cause: A Review Richard Chance The Honorable Cause: A ReviewĮxactly. I try to avoid books on geopolitics written by dudes named Friedman. This is true renaissance thought taking place in an Iranian context, which must also be globally relevant and written with a view to the needs of the next generation, who will live at the crossroads of Earth's civilizations.The Antichomsky George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years Jason Jorjani's Novel Folklore is a stunningly original interpretation of The Blind Owl and a philosophical work in its own right. In the course of an extensive literary comparison of Hedayat's novel to Whitley Strieber's Communion, Jorjani suggests that the visitors from our future are here to re-write their past by re-engineering the folkloric substratum of human consciousness and identity. We think of them as "aliens" because we are alienated from what it is within ourselves that holds these posthuman possibilities open to us. These beings are addressing us from our own future. On Jorjani's reading, The Blind Owl is ultimately about the "Imaginal" metamorphosis of humans into higher beings.

He argues that Hedayat aimed to reestablish Iran's perennial role as the cultural crossroads of the Western world and the Indo-Buddhist East. Jorjani reveals Hedayat's complex appropriation and adaptation of libertine Gnostic and antinomian Tantric ideas. In Novel Folklore, Jason Reza Jorjani, whose grandfather was best friends with Hedayat, offers a revolutionary interpretation of The Blind Owl. This belief is no doubt influenced by Hedayat's own suicide in Paris in 1951.

Often compared to the classics of Existentialism and Gothic Horror, The Blind Owl is widely believed to be cursed, so that anyone who reads it seriously is driven to suicide. Sadegh Hedayat's novel The Blind Owl is considered by many to be the greatest work of modern Persian literature.