This blog, Living Opposites, is the third iteration of my online writing project.

The first iteration, Neoliberal Feudalism, was a 130,000 word longform essay published between March and May of 2023 but written over the course of more than a year and with another seven years of study behind that. It delved into the political, cultural, psychological and historical reasons for the advent and implementation of the parasitical worldwide central bank system and where it is heading. It concluded with the political blackpill and a hope for a transvaluation of values away from the egalitarianism which made the central bank parasitism possible. It raised the question: what happens after the political blackpill?

This is the structure of the modern world, originally from here.

The most important parts are the three-part series on the history of the central bank owners and their motivations, and a two-part exploration of the deeper societal trends that allowed this system to come into place.

The second iteration, the Neofeudal Review, was published between May 2023 and January 2026 in weekly updates which wrestled with that question. It blended politics, culture, and spiritual analysis, gradually honing in on philosophical pessimism, Jungian individuation and the transcendent function as a way of combating the monopoly of the noetic commons which the upper elites use to control public perception and as a radically alternative, phenomenological way of managing the unique, intense psychological stresses of modernity. It concluded unexpectedly in replacing the privatio boni image of God as all good with the horrifying limit condition God image of Abraxas, comprised of all good and all evil – the unity of all opposites.

The most important parts include a post exploring the exile of symbolic speech, the two-part series on the collapse of the all-good God, and the concluding post on individuation under Abraxas.

This third iteration of the project, Living Opposites, continues where the second iteration left off. Having confronted the limit condition, the question now becomes: how does one navigate the crucifixion of opposites as a lived reality, torn between endlessly competing energies? How does one live with dignity while holding a God image which is indifferent to human plight, in a world fundamentally based on predation? The Greek image of Hermes is applicable: as a mediator between the Gods, mankind, and the underworld, he carries messages back and forth between them. Psychologically, this figure represents a method of navigating lived, opposing energies. The goal now is psychological resilience and a circumambulation around the center of the Self toward wholeness. Politics, culture, and other areas will still be discussed, but it will be much more geared toward lived, embodied reality. Posting frequency will vary from the prior iterations and will likely be slower and more irregular.

If this is interesting to you, please join me on this journey. You may either visit this website and/or subscribe to the Substack, which will be maintained so long as I am able to in light of ever-ratcheting censorship.

You can also contact me at hermesofthethreshold@proton.me.

Mercury (Hermes) Carrying Psyche to Mount Olympus by Bartholomeus Spranger (1611)