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Thank you. It had never occurred to me before that I am a natural born European barbarian (feminine energy) in an 'enlightened' (masculine energy) world. I am going to have to work to sort out how I feel about this and what the real implications are for Europeans in terms of their future and culture. I really enjoyed this and have reposted it.
Dracula is one of those books which, when you first read it as a kid, you put down after a few chapters because it is winded and boring and nothing seems to be happening, but now as a disillusioned young adult you devour chapters per hour at the fanciful, rich descriptions, immersive atmosphere buildup and the vibrant capsule of a world you know deep down you can never hope to experience, whether the truly dark, time-forgotten depths of rural Transylvania or the beautific, actually civilized streets and townships of Victorian England, all knitted together in an excellent, richly thematic story of human courage, ingenuity and the eternal war on Evil.
Yes I know what you mean, the characters seem to spend too much time writing letters rather than doing things. But the classics always grow on you as time goes by.
A lot of great books take a few attempts to grasp. Taking another Irish writer as an example, I had to read Joyce's Ulysses three times before I fully grasped it.
@@thehound9638 Dune had the same effect on my niece and nephew when I gave them copies in their mid-teens - they'd only read the Potter kid's books before - but in their later teens they both became immersed in the worlds Herbert built.
@@Clive697 I would recommend the "Amber Chronicles" Absolutely fantastic series with fast paced storytelling and great world building. There's ten in total but they're short books, I have an omnibus book myself.
Bram Stoker was born in a house just down the road from where my mother lives. Another literary giant of Ireland who would turn in his grave to see the island in 2023.
It makes sense that Dracula's greatest opponent would be Van Helsing, a man who understands something of mysticism, alchemy and the past. He proves more effective than a contemporary doctor of the time in fighting the vampire disease.
@@malicant123Huh? He (Tepes) vanquished only those who sought to destroy him and his people (nation). Please educate thyself. Tepes, a Roman Catholic, was set upon by Muslim empire and not a single Christian/Catholic ally dared to help Tepes. Tepes emerged victorious in the face of "insurmountable" odds. Tepes is, without doubt, a hero of the ages.
@@DerSchleier Vlad was not a Roman Catholic. He was an Orthodox Catholic who only converted to Catholicism to secure his release from Hungarian captivity. Educate THYself.
I've loved this book for an age. The story of a man who has lived through and remembers the changes from natural to unnatural, both in the world around him and within himself.
Listening to this on a train ride on the Lazio landscape to Rome and as usual, Morgoth, you give me such a sense of enchantment with your words my brother. Gazing upon the rolling Italian frontier thinking about the Roman conquest of the peninsula, only to arrive at a train station and see otherworldly shadow people selling Hello Kittg selfie sticks and young Italian men who don't yet have a sense of their ancient strength which once repelled such invaders. We must think of Vlad Dracul in this era, and with the coming darkness of our time we may need to employ his might and verocity. Happy Halloween Morgoth! Grazie mille ⚡️☦️💛
I've often thought that Dracula is one of the most tragic characters in fiction. He is alone, last of a once proud people only to see everything he loved fade away. For me the real villain of the book is the modern world of the West where science and technology have taken away the magic and mystery of the ancient world that Dracula represents. The Death of Robin Hood by Peter Vansittart is another good book to read.
Great video. The other side of this re-enchantment is how Van Helsing and company defeat Dracula: they rediscover the spiritual. Over and over the book calls the weapons of the old world "superstitions" - the crucifix, the Eucharist, holy water, and so on - but in the end these weapons *work* when those of the new world don't. Maybe an early example of Spengler's second religiosity breaking into the scientific age?
"The industrial revolution disenchanted the world and killed poetry." I see people repeat this kind of comment, on various sites, but it's simply not true. What happened in the 19th century was just the aftermath of a process that had been ongoing for half a millennium at that point. It started with humanism in the middle ages, then the scientific revolution in the 17th century, and illuminism soon after. It could be argued that the climax of this long process was the French revolution, which was the death not just of the French monarchy, but also of a certain way of seeing the world. So the 19th century was going to be the first modern century, not because of the factories, but because people's minds were already materialistic at that point. The romanticists understood this, and that's why they idolized the middle ages, which they viewed as the last stand of irrationality.
I visited Castle Bran, the fortress of Vlad the impaler, 20 years ago,during a holiday in Romania. It was a foggy December morning and the fairy tale style castle,on its rocky promontory,looming over the surrounding valley was an unforgettable sight.
I hate to rain on the parade but it's believed that Vlad III never actually went to Bran Castle, let alone lived there. Most of his time was spent in Wallachia which constitutes the are much further south of modern day Romania.
@@Red_Devil_2011 the one I think is believed to be his main fortress is in a town in southern Romania called targoviste. I didn't get to visit this one. He also had a sort of palace which is in the centre of Bucharest. I went to it when I visited but it was closed and covered in scaffolding which was disappointing. He rumoured to have been imprisoned in various castles, like Hunyadi castle which I also visited, but there's no way of determining whether that was true or not really.
I just finished Dracula for the first time 5 minutes ago so it's great I have this video from Morgoth to check out! Truly a great story which also happens to contain lots of themes relevant to our current struggle.
In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet. - Yeats, "Blood and Oil"
The word Vampire Vampiru et al. has been derived from PIE *Pi meaning 'to drink' but most likely derives from Indo-Iranian Vyambhara - an evil demon, a minion of Ahriman, the power of the Lie, who thirsts for blood-offerings. Romanian and other Slavic words for a vampire Varcolaci, Voukodlaki et al. derives from Indo-European words meaning Wolf and there's an overlap with Lycanthropy, shape-shifting Old Nordic Vargstakkar 'Wolf-shirts' and such. Dracula takes the wolf shape when he leaps ashore from the Demeter at Whitby.
@@We-Wuz-Great-201 True, but are white English people even allowed heroes that are our people nowadays? Our peoples' heroes of yesteryear are being called -ists and -phobes and their monuments vandalised and cast into the harbour by traitors. At the same time, our regime promotes newcomers as our 'heroes' to our children who know no better. Truly a time when we need heroes and hope but have neither.
Dreamlike scenes in that film, especially the aerial shots of the harbour where the ship has brought the rats - and the plague - while eerie vocals of Gounod's Faust play. Kinski reincarnated the sinister 1920's version of The Count and his own strangeness adds to the role. Scorsese's camp Hollywood Dracula has its moments but doesn't match Nosferatu.
Would love a follow-up such as you mentioned at the end. Herzog's Nosferatu is one of my all-time favourite films, guess I really should read the book sooner or later. Cheers Morgoth.
Absolutely the best Dracula legend retelling in film. Draws heavily from Murnau's classic twenties silent version but adds atmosphere of its own. Kinski is - as ever - astonishing as the Count and even the classical music pieces and soundtrack by Popol Vuh is perfect.
i would rather have a future of blood, sword and spirit rather than tech dystopian hell. that future is not scary at all, its familiar, ancient and above all natural. bladerunner future on the other hand, now that is real horror.
@@We-Wuz-Great-201 I'm not sure whether you're plying hipster irony, or envy of Irish folks that hides behind derision. Maybe you could share your ethnoreligious family tree and their phenomenal accomplishments? A person born in Ireland of central European or nomadic gypsy parents is not an Irishman. Just a person born in Ireland. His nationality traces through his family tree, not the locus of birth.
Topical but uninteresting comment : Louis CK was a classmate of Matthew Perry at High School. Ex-East European migrants tend to more often be based, politically, but I suppose leftie ideology was and is de rigueur in US mainstream comedy.
My father was a Geordie, so perhaps I'll get away with saying that your accent really adds to the reading of that passage. Makes me think of the wildness of the North, walking Hadrian's Wall in pelting rain and wind, the wildness that was still there in the souls of people like my grandparents who were proud of THEIR (very working class) past, the Reivers, the Scottish border skirmishes.. and told stories of ghosts and witches.. Or I'm just being wildly over romantic, but in my own defence I'm half Geordie, half Welsh so I get it from BOTH sides...
Brilliant reading Morgoth. I never got on with the heroes in Dracula. I found the scenes where they declare devotion to each other overly sentimental but then of course that is whats meant to cement the tragedy that befalls them all later. Would love to hear more on this. Interesting take as always.
Great video, thanks for uploading. It is so sad to see your neck of the woods, in particular Ashington & Blyth (we all have heard what's going on there..) being absolutely and deliberately changed demographically by a wicked antiwhite government. Both those places are darkening and it appears by the week, this is exactly what the Government did on the opposite coast in Workington. As soon as 2022 started, literally from New Years Day onwards once trains resumed service, waves of immigration on a scale so big that it was planned and no coincidence, were steadily streaming into Workington, a place that has lost all it's traditional industries, now on it's knees, racked with drugs and sink estates, a hard working grafting sort of place on the coastal wastelands that once had seen much better days overshadowed by the tourist Lake District. So the Government hammers Workington with a new demographic, welcome to Africans. They are doing the same to Ashington and Blyth as you know, also I am informed that Lynemouth and Newbiggin are receiving some families from sub-Saharan Africa. No one was asked. Here on Humberside, particularly Hull, we've had waves of immigration for many a year now. Morgoth your work is superb, and you are a hero of our times and struggle.
This is doubly depressing for English patriots. We in the already ruined south and 'enriched' cities had at least the hope of fleeing to regions that are still the land and culture we knew. But the regime are taking away even that hope by importing new minions in vast numbers and deliberately spreading them into native communities. I'd hoped to retire to the north where I was born, but my relatives there report every town is being changed. The demoralisation of the English working class is nearly complete.
@@courtilz1012 That's troubling. In a way, Dracula arriving by boat in the north would be more appropriate. At least he's a European and is self-financing!
Jordanes: “They departed during the reign of the Gothic King Filimer, son of Gadaric the Great, the fifth king to rule the Getae after they left the island of Scandza (Scandinavia). Filimer led his tribe into Scythia (the steppe north of the Black Sea), but he discovered that witches were living amongst his people. The Goths called these women Haliurunnaein in their native language (‘Hel-runas’ - Seers who consulted the spirits of the dead). Filimer was suspicious of these women, so he banished them from the nation. They were expelled from the community and wandered far away, driven by his army to a place of distant solitary exile. Polluted spirits saw these women wandering through the wilderness and embraced them. The offspring of this union were a savage race who at first only dwelt in the marshes”. (Jordanes, 'Origins and Deeds of the Goths', 24). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B8xdLzhrZtM.html
@@MorgothsReview1 I think Haldeman regretted that. Maybe he was reading Pop Science about the ‘Behavioral Sink’? Think he also mentions the Flatworm Maze Experiments as ‘memory transfer’ (?) Better book than Starship Troopers because the tech is terrifying, they waste their best people, the war is futile - created by revenue politics. The book was recommended to me because of the Irish experience - WW1 and after. Irish soldiers serving in the British Army got something like the Vietnam shock. Just packed away their British Uniforms while their sons and grandsons became Irish Nationalists. Then people with the same ancestors fought each other in the North. It’s just now the narrative changes so fast - as sudden as a time jump.
The first time I read the book of Dracula was when I was 11, it fell off a bookshelf quite by happenstance. I read it twice before I was thirteen, and loved it. That said, there is something in it and the castle that I always found echoed with me, and bespoke to me even as it chills the blood (part of the reason I think I still read and watch horror and love older horror). It is also strange that the older I get, the more I feel as someone who is Francais a greater kinship with my native culture, my people across the Atlantique and with all the Francais. But the more I laugh when Anglo-Saxons be they of England or Canada dub my people barbarous, or disgusting or any a million ridiculous terms for being prepared to burn down our own cities or otherwise quarrel with anyone and everyone. I know folks might not agree, but I am not always certain that the Celtique people of Europe such as the Scots, Irish or French ever properly modernised. There's still a wildness to us, a difference to us that divorces nous de vous. It is funny I think how some despise us for clinging to our traditions and past, the truth is that France is the land of civil wars, the land of a Romanised Celtique people. One who every time I visit cling ever harder to their roots, and even speak of a deep connection to Poland, to Hungary, to Rome, to Christianity, and to a thousand other things. Yet the minute I return from there speaking of such things also, every Anglo friend and family member speaks disparagingly of such things and are horrified. They dislike it when those of us who are Francais speak casually of topics they deem sensitive, speak glibly of such things as civil wars, of the upcoming one in France, of the eagerness to see France come into a new Republique. There's also talk at times amongst us of lands rightfully France's these talks come up amongst those I know. Some dislike the topic, but many Francs talk still of Alsace, of Belgique and portions of Switzerland as being French and hers by right. Many may find it irritating, it is not that conquest is all we talk about, but it is just that when Frenchmen meet, we talk of the sorry state of France, of past glories and of future ones and of how best she might be restored and of literature, and of what makes great literature. Dracule's speech certainly speaks to many people such as yourself Morgoth, and I hope folks don't mind my trying to put into English words the thoughts that came to me as I listened to you. I do not always know how to express myself as I would en Francais.
A video about a legendary past from someone himself who, to youth today, appears as if he is from a legendary past. I was talking about this kind of thing to my son the other day. We encountered this absolute mountain of a man at a retail establishment. He would have been a warrior a thousand years ago. Today he's selling warranties, has soft dinner plate sized hands and won't look you in the eye.
Never heard a HP lovecraft story before so thats what I did on halloween, sitting in the dark in the front room I probably scared the Amazon delivery man of non descript psuedo european ethnic origin. Then I went down to the park to do the next story and it was fairly creepy but I was a little distracted by the herds of sheeple running around in loops with their super bright, harsh, clinical LED headlights, disregarding the emotional tone of my hometown with their objectivity, with their smartwatch health monitors and supplement consuming body-maxxing hampster on a wheel lifestyle.
Audible has an amazing production of Bram Stoker's Dracula. I can't recommend it highly enough. I read it when I was a kid and it went entirely over my head. It essentially describes Cluster B people.
I wish Harker's description of the landscape, people, customs etc went on for pages more and for him to travel to other nations and describe with his Victorian pen the ways of those peoples.
I wonder if Stoker wrote Dracula as an alternative, perhaps sadly a more realistic one, to Dickens' Hard Times, where love, personified by Sissy, triumphs over materialism and the 'rational' world where everything can be calculated?
The Witcher 3 has a similair enchanted past feel to it. Especially in the countrysides, wastelands and forests. That game changed my entire outlook on life, made me bolder, more solar, less of a victim.
It is pretty incredible in its immersive sense. For imaginative people it can really feel like hardscrabble living in hardscrabble times with all sorts of danger in the natural world. It helps that the folks writing the script and story lines do a good job as well. One of my favorite things after I'd played that game a while, was to go to the snowy steep mountains and "ski" down those big snowy faces. Geralt has pretty good balance.
Playing with new labels year after year only obfuscates and dilutes our purpose. I stick with pro-White because at the end of the day that is the only relevant purpose at the core of any of these reactionary communities.
The 1526 Battle of Mohacs that Morgoth mentioned has a tenuous parallel with our land and times. For decades the Hungarian rulers oppressed the ordinary people and encouraged factionalism to the point where by the time of the Ottoman invasion of Hungary the land was no longer socially or politically united. This allowed the incoming Muslims to crush the Hungarians who could now only muster a third of the Ottoman army's strength.
@@milescivis1018 Not all of us, and not as easy as it was only two decades ago. Your optimism regarding the pendulum swinging back toward sensible politics is admirable, but I see the leftism continuing to spread like the mind virus it is. We'll see who's right over the next few years.
One would have to think that Apocalypse Now and Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" are retellings of Dracula. Thank you for this review, it does get the cogitation going.
There are parallels. Both Kurtz and the Count are anti-heroes living apart from the world they've rejected in bizarre alternate realities, both being hunted by adversaries sworn to destroy them. Though both are portrayed as 'evil' entities one can still empathise with their plight.
Some people say "Nothing is certain" and to a point, I agree but, given the span of human history, the enlightenment proyect is like a candle in a windy night, frail and poised to burnout. And its supposed keeper half sleep and drunk on his own self indulgence and hubris.
They tried to turn us into poodles hoping that we'd forget that we are wolves. It worked on a lot of us, that's why the silly poodles allow foreigners to come disrespect them on their own territory. But it didn't work on all of us.
Poodles are actually quite dangerous dogs. Cartoons taught us all poodles are tea cups, but a standard poodle is actually quite big, and know to be aggressive.
You're right to recognize a hunger among us, for a spiritual existence within a mythological world taking the reigns back from this deadening secular existence within the modern world. I recently started listening again to a series called our subverted history, by asha logos here on yt, and it has been providing a nice bridge from here to there again. In fact I think such things are a regular requirement for people with such a hunger for it, as daily life in the modern world seems to unavoidably work as a pesticide against our roots, ever-attempting to reach out towards the spiritual sustenance that we're being deprived of. It's for this reason that I rewatch the Lord of the Rings every Christmas as well, which has the same effect.
Very nice view shared here, Morgoth. Thank you. Metaphorically that novel can say/be many things, some of which have been turned into shows plays movies. Another thing is what you mentioned, those things not discussed here. And there's your POV. The tension of survival in literal feral times, still prowling in "comfortable" and "civilized" times. It's been on my mind lately another idea from novels and short stories. The Most Dangerous Game. Hawleywould played it up with that haven't eaten in a while "games" thing, but of course distorted. But what if the truly predatory, those who cannot be among others without preying upon them in small or large ways -- what if they had their own country where all those sorts of humans could prey upon each other all the time. How great would that be for them! Ultimate dog-eat-dog, high-tension society! The rest of the people on the planet might find it a good balance too. And if the dog-eat-dog society is given a big enough patch of land, that's where anyone in the other ...oh maybe 90-93% of the population ...could send any malefactors discovered after dog-eat-dog-land is created. PS there's also Vlad Dracul of history, Vlad the Impaler, who supposedly inspired Stoker. And what's Stoker's story anyway? Lived in Ireland but where from?
This holloween i have been watching a lot of videos people have taken of paranormal and supernatural things. These videos get millions of views and are actually at times quite terrifying and i cant help but ruminate, that these ghosts and demons everyone seeking is a way to scratch at the surface of the ancient and lost mysticism of the past. Its as if everyone is growing tired of living in a world thats so one-dimensional and that these outiside influences whether their demons or ghosts skin-walkers or hybrids they want to believe. They want to believe like they are fox moulder in the x-files or johnathan harker in dracula they want to believe that the world from the past is real and that theres more than just progress that mysticism and good and evil is real.
Can't say Dracula ever captured me that much, but Frankenstein had me in a spell throughout. Almost devoured it in a single sitting, but had to go to work, which I did, and then finished it as soon as a I got home. Perhaps it was not the time, it was almost a decade ago as I had just turned 20, and a reread is in order.
So is the enchanted, pre-modern Dracula mode of tribe, violence, gore, and horror...good? Or do we dread its return? Are low-interest mortgages and careers bad, boring things you wish to see swept away by the glory of bloody conquest, or are these safe, secure platforms of civil life that should be protected against the swelling tide of violence and tribalism? Or is this just another false dichotomy...
Having attempted the rat race in my 20s and part of my 30s, I can say I did see career tracking, mortgage enslavement, stressful work (despite decent pay) all looked like the wrong life for me. I ditched it before I hit 40 because my my mid-30s I could already see it was going where it has gone. The war stuff in yook land and gaza I did not foresee obviously, but the collapsing economy I did. I knew as of the late 90s that it was on a spiral down. My only question was how long before something like the yook and gaza stuff would happen to trigger the full scenario. Looks like it's here. The predatory minds, in good healthy societies, are channeled into productive purpose (actors with state sanction for physical force, soldiers and other enforcers of the social structure) or sent to prison. Sometimes if their predation is too powerful, thirsty/hungry, the society demands their departure from the living. But they are, unless overthirsty/overhungry, good at being watchdogs and soldiers, when their souls are human enough. Those who prey through indirect, passive means are the most problematic.
1. Low interest mortgages and careers are already swept away. Those few that remain will be devoured either by automation or by the corps betting everything on automation which never comes. Your "safe secure platforms" are built on sugar foundations, and it's been raining a while now.
I'd rather be a man fighting for fortune and glory and his piece of land in this world than have my life squandered on this bubble wrapped prison society. They preach freedom yet I am not free, they made being a man illegal.
Brilliant again Morgoth. I wonder if you've read The Secret Life of Puppets by Victoria Nelson? A fascinating book on the 'sneaking in' of the metaphysical into modernity, with a strong slant towards horror and the 'grotesque'.
I've gotta disagree slightly. I think you're forgetting the horrors of 20th century compared to now. Even the 90's had their fair share of catastrophes, say, the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides. The 2000's have been some of the most peaceful yet, and although we are seeing increasing degradation of the West, and perhaps that's what you're referring to, it still doesn't parallel what was happening during the height of the West's power. Not that I'm defending what liberalism and commercialism have done to our societies, and I understand that your point is that the superficial societies we have built around us will soon collapse to the storm on the horizon.
Did I hear that right? He talks of Magyar and Hungarian like they are different things. As far as I know Magyar is Hungarian the same way Deutschland is Germany to the English speaker.
Morgoth that's a truel classic novel, have you ever ventured into the world of H.P Lovecraft, "" At the mountains of madness ' is a great story to start with if you haven't!....
@@georgeohwell7988 morgoths video on nyarlathotep is what I meant. But I have read lovecrafts whole works, and I read Dracula last year when I was in Romania with work.
