The Resurgence of the Great Goddess: Exploring the Mystique of Eco-Fascism and Dark Mother Cults 

Thank you very much for this comment. We are trying hard to promote our work, so anything anyone can do is a big plus. The introduction to this episode was very experimental by the way, it was unlike any other episode. We'll see how it was received in the comment section and judge accordingly.

Thank you! You must be the first who actually liked the intro!

Thank you, and let's hope!

Well, whatever you can do about this, is much appreciated

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Thanks! It seems that a few people here are. When we titled this video "eco-fascism" we did not mean, however, a combination of National Socialism and Ecology. I became aware through these comments that such a combination did indeed exist. But that was not what was meant. Rather, eco-fascism was meant in the "dictionary" definition of the term: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism

Yes, the voiceover could indeed be clearer

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Thank you.

Thank you. I recently discovered a book called "Dark Green Religion" that kind of validates what I said here. www.amazon.com/Dark-Green-Religion-Spirituality-Planetary/dp/0520261003

Haha... I never knew he said that. But somehow, I am not surprised ;-) * what a great comedian!

@@AncientGreeceRevisited ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7W33HRc1A6c.html A great clip

Thanks for the recommendation. I will try and invite him on the show.

Could you define what do you mean for eco fascism, please?

@@alessandrazacco1806 Well today the word fascism is totally misunderstood. The right way to use ecofascism is not about any authoritarian regime that forces society to repress itself for the environment. It's about fascist regimes, I mean governments with nationalistic and nativistic values that see the environment as the natural lebensraum of their nation.

@@user-jy8lc2vs3b I see. But, fascismo in the way you mean is mainly a historical category, which could, of course, come back under particular circumstances. I think that here we are talking about a sort of ideology, which puts at the center of every thought the environment, as if mankind would be something out of the environment itself. So, people who don't care about the relationship between mankind AND nature, or environment, and give more value to the environment only, disregarding human life, are, in my opinion, eco fascist. I add that the same people, when front a subjective or individual or personal dilemma, usually prefer their own Good or Interest, disregarding all the things they thought about nature and environment.

@@alessandrazacco1806 I see your point. I only disagree with the use of word fascism today. Fascism is a specific ideology. We must not relate Fascism with other ideologies because the word looses its meaning.

@@user-jy8lc2vs3b In this case I disagree, because, as I wrote before, Fascism is something to keep at distance ever: it never died, because democracy leaves people have free opinions.

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The idea that technological problems can and must be solved by more technology (with its own problems) is pathological behaviour.

@@harrymacrae4658 pathological because the problems weren't anticipated in the past so why do we think there won't be more unintended consequences in the future? good point, but what's the alternative? This is quite interesting on the subject of Techno. solutions btw www.ted.com/talks/myles_allen_fossil_fuel_companies_know_how_to_stop_global_warming_why_don_t_they/up-next?language=en

Please suggest a book of his.

@@AncientGreeceRevisited So _Small Is Beautiful_ is his most fundamental and classic work, but the booklet _A Guide for the Perplexed_ is a nice short intro. There are also a number of great interviews and documentaries from when he was alive on RU-vid, if you want to know what you're getting into first: - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lb-OaI0w0cw.html

Well, they were not environmentalists in the current use of the term. She was a "nature goddess" to be sure, but represented a very different nature to the "mother earth" type.

Thank you for the comment. While most people would cringe at the “romantic-fascist” epithet, I understand you. I was once drawn to something that - got want of a better term - could in fact be described at such. But that was back in my younger years :-) Here, in Ancient Greece Revisited we are interested in understanding the ancient mind. Especially in contrast to the modern. An interview that I participated personally kind of captures where we are headed. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bdty63UPtSw.html

@@AncientGreeceRevisited Interesting thanks for the link! I didnt know Castoriadis. He seems to have a Jungian approach similar to archetipes but specifically cultural except of a universal vision. As a spaniard, I would recommend you read Antonio Escohotado, he just died a few months ago and was one of the best philosophers of XX century Spain. He was very interested in the historical use of drugs and the greek world...He was linked to Ernst Junger work. I asked you about the romantic-fascist thing because I see in your channel a heavy Nietzche inspiration. The thing is that, having read the Birth of Tragedy, I find Nietzsche and the greek world a bit left wing (more than facist right-wing). For example Dionisian rituals have a clear gender bending spirit to it (Dionisos is portraited by Euripides as a femenine man with long hair), and even there are some feminist charachterics to the rituals (Menads are the opossite of patriarcal womans: Sex driven and violent). So all this Queer LGTB fashion I find it quite linked to the greeks.

I think that describes HIM perfectly

Thank you for being so frank. One of the politicians that I follow here in Greece is a Marxist like yourself, who repeats publicly "I am not a Leftist, I am a Communist." There is an important difference that is pushed to the side in this new world order we seem to be living under. It seems that the oder borrows elements from various ideologies by neutralising their active ingredients. So now we are left with a "Left" that is NOT revolutionary; that is NOT interested in the people, and actually mocks many of their demands as "populist."

yeah, here in this part of the world they say "we're not left nor right, we work for everyone" or " we dont need a political party, we hate politics" Now, there are some honest people there with good intentions and others who dont the thing is, when they say they work for everyone well... that must includes the upper classes and the way of living and all that comes with it they hate politics well, thats a politics itself and here in my country i hear a lot "pachamama" mother earth, living harmony, like the people of old did and thats jus romantizacing the past Thanks for your answer and i suggest a book maybe you can read it in your spare time The infantile sickness of "Leftism" in communism Author Vladimir Lenin Greetings from Bolivia

@@stalingaleon Well, in ancient Greece they had a word for those who pretended to "mind their own business" and hate politics: ιδιώτης (idiotes), which is where the word "idiot" comes from.

I would like to ask you a question. Isn't the communist movement a huge part of the problem? Why to follow people like Stalin? Man, if there ever was a devil walking on this Earth, it surely was Stalin. Many crimes he and his crazy comerades were responsible for, one of them was Ukrainian Holodomor. Read about it. There is no excuse. Marx maybe had good intentions but didn't understand a thing about human nature and didn't understand the society as a well working (though sometimes ill) body, but imputed the war state to every circumstance of social life. His ideology let many politicians to worst concievable horrors. Communist rethoric is the agenda of people fighting against each other, turning "classes" not into one society but into enemies. Communism is a kind of horrible anti-human, though godless religion. I would say that this religion has sacrificed the biggest number of human lives in history. And what for? Look at China, Russia, North Korea and Vietnam, Cambodia, Venezuela and Cuba. Many people died and suffered humiliation, lager imprisonment (communist equivalent for concentration camps) and severe poverty, many cultures were destroyed because of these crazy monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Guevara and others... They were obsessed with the idea that the world should be set on fire by the means of revolution drunken in unimaginable amounts of human blood. They hated people who were happy to work hard for themselves and be the masters of themselves. Individualism and dignity of the individual human being was a crime in their eyes - often crime punished witb death sentence. They hated everything that can be called sacred: the right of self-possession, human dignity, freedom of speech, freedom to possess the goods and means, family bonds and bonds of frienship. People were encouraged to spy on one another! Thousands of examples, one of the most appaling was Pavlik Morozov case. Soon enough everywhere it was forced upon people it lead to poverty, economical ruin, ruin of morality and destruction of human relationships. I'm from Poland - the country that suffered much from hands of communists. Forced to live behind the iron curtain for many years, we still suffer the effects of decades of enslavement. Though I was born in 1986, I know what I'm talking about. The stigma of communist ocupation is still visible in many aspects of our politics, economy and social life. Polish workers, who supposed to thrive and profit from the communist system were put in growing poverty which lead to national protests in '50s, '70s, '80s. The prostesters were mostly simple workers, but also students and intellectuals alike. It proved that class didn't matter. Humanity matters all along. System that supposed to support the poorest threw everybody into deeper poverty. Free speech was severely forbidden... Nothing's worse that communism. It can lead to such great terrors that any other regime is not capable of. Orwell's "1984" seems to be a fairy tale in comparision to some of the greatest "achievements" of the communist oppressive regime...

This is an interpretation, not a conspiracy