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Thread ID: 18618 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-06-10
2005-06-10 22:45 | User Profile
Julius Evola wrote about esoteric mythology, mountain climbing, and fascism. His concept of the world was as a series of tests for survival, allowing the better to rise above the rest, except as interrupted by a modern world of utterly trivial "meanings." His view of the esoteric contradicts the one-size-fits-all vision of modernity which most of us are taught from a young age, and his theoretical abstraction of fascism will be interesting to those new to the topic.
[url]http://www.juliusevola.com/[/url]
2005-06-11 01:22 | User Profile
neoclassical,
Thanks for the link, I am reading "Revolt Against the Modern World" at this time. I have found it a useful work.
2005-06-11 03:45 | User Profile
[COLOR=Indigo][B][I] - "His concept of the world was as a series of tests for survival, allowing the better to rise above the rest, except as interrupted by a modern world of utterly trivial "meanings.""[/I][/B][/COLOR]
So it seems that at least in this regard, Evola was forced to borrow ideas from Christianity, which says that this world is indeed meaningful in some sense, a trial that we must all go through.
His beloved Hinduism and especially Buddhism teach that this universe is merely a wicked illusion of senses that one should escape from to the extinction of [I]nirvana[/I].
Somehow I dislike purely pagan authors less than such [B]half[/B]-pagan authors that parasitically take Christian concepts to prop up their otherwise pitch-black hopeless [I]weltanschaaung[/I]...
Petr
2005-06-11 08:29 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Petr][COLOR=Indigo][B][I] - "His concept of the world was as a series of tests for survival, allowing the better to rise above the rest, except as interrupted by a modern world of utterly trivial "meanings.""[/I][/B][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
Whatever. The best men I've ever known had the most calloused hands I ever shook. That's real life--an honest hard day's work to provide for a wife and children.