I apologize that comment has gone unanswered for so long. I have posted your comment at our interim forum which you can find at http://pub44.bravenet.com/forum/3724255489/show/918672 .

Namely, I am a monarchist of the old school, having found, over time, a contempt for the modern political field, and a reverent awe for the days of universal monarchy. I am a defender, therefore, of the Old European Order, and adherent to the political theories of the Comte de Maistre, and an ardent Royalist who hews to the traditionalist Stuart line as a necessity (being of the colonies of the New World which lately have revolted from the rule of the House of Hanover and then foolishly chose to institute Republican rule rather than offer the throne to His Majesty, Charles Stuart, the King across the Water).

I had the fortune as a child to not attend the modern public school system, which is an atrocious system of propaganda, and instead am primarily an autodidact. I have read all the works of philosophy from Socrates and Plato through Aristotle, the principle Stoics, Aquinas and the other church fathers (though I am not Christian, I approve, in the fashion of Action Française and Charles Maurras, of the social institution of religion in society, as necessary to providing the fundamental underpinning of the State, and legitimizing a hierarchy of rule founded ultimately in the Divine, of whom the old Byzantine title for the Emperor describes the position best: “The Shadow of God upon the Earth.”

Forward from the medieval philosophers I found myself naturally hewing to the line of Kant and the Transcendental Idealists; Hegel is to me the final form of his thought, and the Teutonic system of Metternich’s counterrevolution such of a state as there needed no improvement upon, nor could there have been (that this makes me a Right-Hegelian almost goes without saying).

Now, the Pit as you prefer to call it (and I prefer the more expansive designation of ‘Anglo-Consumerist Society’ which has become the centrepiece of a deranged world-civilization), you assert only began in the 1960s. I’m curious as to why. To someone of my sort, who certainly rejects the whole of modern society–finding the village Mir preferable to the independent farmstead (and may the reward of the noble Alexandr Solzhenitsyn be great, who stood up against our consumerist society and condemned it as he did communism), the orders of medieval society as the natural expression of a people, and authoritarian monarchy limited only by traditions established ab antiquo, the normative government for the vast bulk of humanity–the creation point for the present domination by the consumerist English-speaking peoples, over the Teutonic civilization of the Hohenzollerns and Habsburgs, is necessarily a result of military victory by the Entente over the Central Powers in the First World War.

So why do you prefer to set the date for the beginning of the Pit to the 1960s, rather than the seemingly more explicit (to traditionalists of my vein) point of the military defeat of the Central Powers (and to a lesser extent, Russia)? Cannot it not be said that the defining events were the Kerenskyite revolution, the failure of the Caporetto Offensive to take Venice (even as successful as it was), and the failure of Operation Michael to seize the rail-junctions of Amiens?

I am, of course, very much also inclined to regard modern Tellurian civilization, as you would put, as being quite transient. Their own economic “science” is based on the ludicrous proposition that infinite growth is possible, whereas realistic science indicates to us that our energy resources on this planet are necessarily finite. We may therefore abstain from participating in the system (which to me very much includes refusing to vote, and appealing to such divine powers as I hold dear, to restore the King, as the Cossacks of the Caucasus do for sake of the Tsar) and wait with fervent hope for the day when the dictates of science in fact, with delightful irony, condemn the scientific-religion and mass consumerism of the Pit.

Plagues and famine will sweep the Earth, governments will collapse and civil wars will commence over the dwindling resources and chaos. At this point those of traditionalist bent, well prepared for the coming crisis, may ignore such political systems as remain, speak directly to the desperate population, and dare to put the chances of a successful counterrevolution to the test on the field of war. It is a necessary result of the beliefs of traditionalists of my bent to see this as the only natural way for the resumption of something in most ways resembling the old order, which will of course have to take place in the same way that the Caesars of the early Empire became the Avtokrators of the Dominate: Through a long period of transitional dictatorship in which the twilight of this modern civilization is guided down to a ’soft landing’ from its heights of terrible brilliance, terrific folly, and arrogant, democratic power.

Having in this communication therefore broadly laid out the specifics of which I may hope to see in our future, and what I believe, I would like to simply say that I am much interested in conversing in detail (and ultimately through electronic relay text communications, with several others, if you are interested) on matters of Aristasian metaphysics, and in particular, your philosophical critique of modern democratic-consumerist civilization.