In this thread I will post quotations from 'Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul' by Julius Evola.
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>the effect of Nihilism on the West
>the state of "modern" society
>the rise of depression and alienation
>survival strategies for socio-political Outsiders
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On the reason for writing the book
>"This book sets out to study some οf the ways in which the present age appears essentially as an age of dissolution. At the same time, it addresses the question of what kind οf conduct and what form οf existence are appropriate under the circumstances for a particular human type. "
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On the meaning of the book's title
>"The phrase chosen as the title οf this book, "ride the tiger," may serve as a transition between what has been said hitherto, and this other order οf ideas. The phrase is a Far Eastern saying, expressing the idea that if one succeeds in riding a tiger, not only does one avoid having it leap οn one, but if one can keep one's seat and not fall off, one may eventually get the better of it. [...] Its significance can be stated as follows: when a cycle οf civilization is reaching its end, it is difficult to achieve anything by resisting it and by directly opposing the forces in motion. The current is too strong; one would be overwhelmed. The essential thing is not to let oneself be impressed by the omnipotence and apparent triumph οf the forces οf the epoch. These forces, devoid οf connection with any higher principle, are in fact οn a short chain. One should not become fixated οn the present and οn things at hand, but keep in view the conditions that may come about in the future. Thus the principle to follow could be that οn letting the forces and processes οf this epoch take their own course, while keeping oneself firm and ready to intervene when "the tiger, which cannot leap in the person riding it, is tired οf running."
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Do you have it prepared or to you intend to type every post out?
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On Evola's intended audience
>"What Ι am about to say does not concern the ordinary man οf our day. Οn the contrary, Ι have in mind the man who finds himself involved in today's world, even at its most problematic and paroxysmal points; yet he does not belong inwardly to such a world, nor will he give in to it. He feels himself, in essence, as belonging to a different race from that οf the overwhelming majority οf his contemporaries. [...] a few men exist who are, so to speak, still οn their feet among the ruins and the dissolution, and who belong, more or less consciously, to that other world. Α little group seems willing to fight on, even in lost positions. So long as it does not yield, does not compromise itself by giving in to the seductions that would condition any success it might have, its testimony is valid"
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On those who decide to confront reality
>"those who [...] will not burn their bridges with current life [...] must therefore decide how to conduct their existence, even οn the level οf the most elementary reactions and human relations. [...] He can in truth find nο further support from without. There nο longer exist the organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, would have allowed him to realize himself wholly, to order his own existence in a clear and unambiguous way, and to defend and apply creatively in his Orientations own environment the principal values that he recognizes within himself. Thus there is nο question of suggesting to him lines of action that, adequate and normative in any regular, traditional civilization, can no longer be so in an abnormal one-in an environment that is utterly different socially, psychically, intellectually, and materially; in a climate of general dissolution; in a system ruled by scarcely restrained disorder, and anyway lacking any legitimacy from above."
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sounds like revolutionaries biding their time
are you the same brit that made the other biography threads? if so, do you have links for those threads?
OP here. I have quotations prepared and organized thematically.
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On the phases of Nihilism
>"Thus there are two phases. The first is a sort οf metaphysical or moral rebellion. The second is the phase in which the νery motiνes that had implicitly nourished that rebellion giνe way and dissolνe. For a new type οf man, they are empty. That is the nihilistic phase in the proper sense, whose chief theme is the sense οf the absurdity, the pure irrationality οί the human condition."
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On the existential view of Nihilism as imposed freedom
>"One finds oneself already faced with the well-known situation οf a freedom that is suffered, rather than claimed: modern man is not free, but finds himself free in the world where God is dead. ''He is delivered υρ to his freedom." It is from this that his deep suffering comes. When he is fully aware οf this, anguish seizes him and the otherwise absurd sensation οί a responsibility reappears."
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On Nihilism as a hollow victory
>"Α current of thought and a "historiography" exist that represent this process of rebellion and dissolution, or at least its first phases, as having been something positive and as a victory. It is another aspect of contemporary nihilism, whose undeclared basis is a sort of "shipwreck euphoria." It is well known that the phases of dissolution, beginning with illuminism and liberalism and proceeding gradually to immanentist historicism (first "idealistic," then materialist and Marxist), have been interpreted and celebrated as those of the emancipation and reaffirmation of man, of progress of the spirit, and of true "humanism.""
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>OP here. I have quotations prepared and organized thematically.
so I don't have to worry that the thread will die.
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OP here. I avoid posting again if there are no other posts after my most recent one, which is why I encourage others to join in (if they want to) as I do not want to spam.
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On Nihilism and existential angst
>"existence [...] is felt not only as expulsion and as "being flung" irrationally into the world, but also as a "fall" and even as a debt or a fault. Existential angst, then, is caused by the act or choice with which one obscured willed to be what one now is, or what one ought to be (if one can); it is caused by the use of made of a freedom that is in a way transcendent, for which there is no meaning or explanation but for which one remains responsible. [...] The human type to whom all these existentialist ideas appeal is characterized by a fractured will and remains so"
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On the psychological consequences of Nihilism
>"But once this sensation occurs, the faςade may start to waver, the assemblage to collapse, and the dissolution οf values is followed by the denial of everything one has resorted to in order to make up for the senselessness οf a life henceforth reduced to itself. Then comes the existential theme οf nausea and disgust, οf the void that is sensed behind the whole system οf bourgeois life, the theme οf the absurdity οί the whole new, earthbound "civilization." Where the sensation is most acute there occur forms οί existential trauma and states that have been called "the spectrality of eνents," "the degradation of objectiνe reality," "existential alienation.""
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R I D E T H E T I G E R
ok, I will be here for an hour or so, I try to keep up until then.
Can someone define radical traditionalism to me. I'm not autistic(driven) enough to read Evola's books.
What do you guys think about Miguel Serrano?
I had to stop reading the Last Avatar because the red pills were absolutely ferocious. one after another. and so predictive! I feel like I need to stay the hell away from this rabbit hole. there is nothing but sadness and anger here.
OP here. I'm afraid this book isn't the best for defining that term, and he only writes "as I have described elsewhere" in this book when referring to Tradition. This book is intended more as guidance.
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On absolute freedom and moral Nihilism
>"Man, at a given moment, wanted to "be free." He was allowed to be so, and he was allowed to throw οff the chains that did not bind him so much as sustain him. Thereupon he was allowed to suffer all the consequences of his liberation, following ineluctably up to his present state ίη which "God is dead" (or "God has withdrawn," as Bernanos says), and existence becomes the field of absurdity where everything is possible and everything is allowed"
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On the spread and normalisation of Nihilism
>"Ιη recent times, the fracture has extended from the moral plane to the existential and ontological. Values that were previously questioned and shaken only by a few precursors in relative isolation now lose all relevance for general consciousness ίη everyday life. One is no longer dealing with "problems" but with a state of affairs ίη which the immoralist pathos οf yesterday's rebels seems increasingly old-fashioned and incongruous. For some time, a good part οf Western humanity has considered it a natural thing for existence to lack any real meaning, and for it not to be ordered by any higher principle, arranging their lives in the most bearable and least disagreeable way they can. Οf course this has its counterpart and inevitable 'consequence is an inner life that is more and more reduced, formless, feeble, and elusive, and ίη a growing dissolution οf any uprightness and character."
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This is fantastic advice for trading. Really he could be describing the market here. Fascinating.
>I'm not autistic(driven) enough
well it certainly helps, but if you reject society out of an inner natural motivation it is a good start.
It isn't something you can explain it is more of a feeling, which grows inside you.
you should check him out, his books are not that long
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I feel that inside of me. I'm just confused on the term radical traditionalist. Why must it be radical? Is our world so far from the truth that the truth is radical?
On individualism over time
>"Later, the emphasis οn the human and individual Ι, the basis οf humanism, would survive οnly ίη the by-products οί the nineteen the century bourgeois cult οf the Ι, associated with a certain aesthetic cult οf heroes, geniuses, and "nobility οf spirit." But to meet many οf the current defenders οf "personality" one must descend yet another degree, to where all the vanity οf the Ι predominates: its exhibitionism, worship 'Όf one's own "interiority," the craze οf originality, the boastfulness οf brilliant literati and ambitious belletrists. [...] in contemporary celebrity worship we can see the popular, updated edition that takes the former "cult οf the personality" to ridiculous lengths. "
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On decadence and social atomisation
>"One οf the principal and most apparent aspects of modern decadence refers, in fact, to the advent οf individualism as a consequence of the collapse and destruction of the former organic and traditionally hierarchical structures, which have been replaced primarily by the atomic multiplicity of individuals ίη the world of quantity, that is to say the masses. [...] It makes nο sense to position oneself against the world of the masses and of quantity without realizing that it is individualism itself that has led to it, in the course of one of those processes of "liberation" that historically have ended by taking the opposite direction. In our epoch this process has already had irreversible consequences."
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it is.
It must be radical to separate yourself from the masses.
The average reddit imported t_D teen/boomer cannot comprehend the likes of Evola
never came around to get into guenon, but evola quotes him very often and he seems pretty interesting.
Is he avaiable in german?
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On the standardized individual
>"these processes οf the current world have caused the individual to be superseded by the "type," together with an essential impoverishment οί his traits and ways οf life, and a dissolution οf cultural, human, and personal values. Ιη the vast majority οf cases, the destruction is suffered passively: the man οf today is the mere object οί it. The result is an empty, mass-produced human type, marked by standardization and flat uniformity; a "mask" ίη the negative sense; an insignificant, multiple product. [...] The faces οf men and women take οn the appearance οf masks, "metallic masks in the one, cosmetic masks ίη the other." Ιn their gestures and expressions there is a sort οί "abstract cruelty," correlating with the ever-increasing space in today's world that is taken υρ by technology, quantity, geometry, and everything that refers to objective relationships."
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On the rootlessness of modern society
>"Ιn a large city, in mass society, among the almost unreal swarming of faceless beings, an essential sense of isolation or of detachment often occurs naturally, perhaps even more than in the solitude of moors and mountains. What Ι have hinted at concerning recent technology that annihilates distances and the planetary spread of today's horizons, feeds inner detachment, superiority, calm transcendence, while acting and moving ίη the vast world: one finds oneself everywhere, yet at home nowhere. [...] the expression "nomad of the asphalt," although scathing, is significant of the negatiνe and depersonalizing effect οn life of the destruction of natural ties in large, modern cities"
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radicalism is relative. The further away you are from the mainstream of the gruop you are talking about the more radical you are.
In a moderm egalitarian materialist progressive society of his (and our) time he was a radical. In medieval Europe he would have been a mainstream normie.
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On modern life
>"Modern life takes place eνer less in a protected, self-contained, qualitatiνe, and organic enνironment: one is immersed in the entire world by new and rapid traνel that can bring us to faraway lands and landscapes ίη little time. Hence, we tend toward a general cosmopolitanism as "world citizens" in a material and objectiνe sense, not an ideological, much less a humanitarian one. [...] the times οf "proνincialism" are oνer."
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On the modern assault on nature
>"Ιn the end, the phase of nature for the plebeians arrives, with the breakout of the masses, the common people everywhere with or without their automobiles, the travel agencies, the dopolavori, and all the rest; nothing is spared. The naturists and nudists form the extreme of this phenomenon. The beaches-teeming insect-like with thousands and thousands of male and female bodies, offering to the glance an insipid, almost complete nudity-are another symptom. Still another is the assault οη the mountains by cable cars, funiculars, chair lifts, and ski lifts. ΑΙΙ this is part of the regime of final disintegration of our epoch. There is ηο point in dwelling οn it. [...] for the latest generation [nature] is the stage for acting out its vacuous, invasive, and contaminating vulgarity"
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On material poverty and spiritual misery
>"the error and the illusion are the same in both socioeconomic ideologies, namely the serious assumption that existential misery can be reduced to suffering in one way or another from material want, and to impoverishment due to a given socioeconomic system. They assume that misery is greater among the disinherited or the proletariat than among those living ίη prosperous or privileged economic conditions, and that it will consequently diminish with the "freedom from want" and the general advance οf the material conditions οί existence. The truth οf the matter is that the meaning οf existence can be lacking as much in one group as ίn the other, and that there is no correlation between material and spiritual misery."
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On depression in the West
>"the most acute forms οί the modern existential crisis are appearing today at the margin of a civilization of prosperity, as witness the currents in the new generation that have been described. One sees there rebellion, disgust, and anger manifesting not in a wretched and oppressed subproletariat but often ίη young people who lack nothing, even in millionaires' children. And among other things it is a significant fact, statistically proven, that suicide is much rarer in poor countries than in rich ones, showing that the problematic life is felt more in the latter than in the former. Blank despair can occur right up to the finishing-post οί socioeconomic messianism, as in the musical comedy about a utopian island where they have everything, "fun, women, and whiskey," but also the ever-recurrent sense οf the emptiness οf existence, the sense that something is still missing"
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On sexual "liberation"
>"Ι must emphasize above all that the direction οί the processes at work is toward a freeing of sex, but in nο way a freeing from sex. Sex and women are instead becoming dominant forces in present society, an evident fact that is also part οf the general phenomenology οf every terminal phase οf a civilization's cycle. One might speak οf a chronic sexual intoxication that is profusely manifested in public life, conduct, and art. Its counterpart is a gynocratic tendency, a sexually oriented preeminence οf the woman that relates to the materialistic and practical involvement οί the masculine sex: a phenomenon that is clearest in those countries, like the United States, where that involvement is more excessive. Furthermore, by adding the products of commercialized mass pornography, the polarity between the sexes is diluted, as seen in the conduct οf "modern" life where the youth οf both sexes are everywhere intermingled, promiscuously and "unaffectedly," with almost nο tension, as if they were turnips and cabbages in a vegetable garden."
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On excessive sexual displays leading to asexual indifference
>"Beside the cases in which almost full female nudity feeds the atmosphere of abstract, collective sexuality, we should consider those cases in which nudity has lost every serious "functional" character cases which by their habitual, public character almost engender an involuntarily chaste glance that is capable of considering a fully undressed girl with the same aesthetic disinterest as observing a fish or a cat."
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On female "liberation" and the emancipated woman
>"Ιn an inauthentic existence, the regime οf diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's "distractions" and "amusements" does not yet allow the modern woman to foresee the crisis that awaits her when she recognizes how meaningless are those male occupations for which she has fought, when the illusions and the euphoria οf her conquests vanish, and when she realizes that, given the climate οf dissolution, family and children can no longer give her a sense οf satisfaction in life. Meanwhile, as a result οf diminished tension even man and sex can nο longer mean a great deal to her; they cannot be her natural center οf existence as they were for the traditional absolute woman, but can only be οf value as one ingredient οf a diffused and externalized existence, ηο more important than fashion, sport, a narcissistic cult οf the body, practical interests, and so on. The destructive effects so often produced ίη modern women by a mistaken vocation or warped ambitions, and also the force οf circumstances, enter into the equation."
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>Do you have it prepared or to you intend to type every post out?
No, we are obviously talking to Evola directly and he's typing it out as the thread goes on.
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he could type it from the book
Op I'm an edgy teenager (18) who loves writing notes on books like this. Want to trade notes? can you give me some recommendations as well? please email me at [email protected] if it's not a bother.
On the decline of the family
>"We have to face the consequences οf the fact that the family has since ceased to have any higher meaning, or been cemented by living factors that go beyond the merely individual. The organic and, to a certain degree, "heroic" character that its unity presented ίη the past has been lost ίη the modern world, just as the institution's residual veneer οf "sacrality" bestowed by religious marriage has disappeared, or nearly so. Ιn reality, in the great majority οf cases the modern family is presented as a petit bourgeois institution determined almost exclusively by conformist, utilitarian, primitive, or at best sentimental factors. Above all, its essential fulcrum has disappeared, which was constituted by the primarily spiritual authority οf its head, the father: that is shown by the etymological meaning οf the word pater as "lord," or "sovereign." At this rate one οf the principal goals οf the family, procreation, is reduced to the mere mindless propagation οf one's bloodline: propagation, moreover, that is promiscuous, given that with modern individualism any limitation of conjugal unions by stock, caste, and race has collapsed, and given that, in any case, it in longer has as counterpart the most essential continuity, that is, the transmission of a spiritual influence, a tradition, and an ideal heritage from generation to generation. "
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What book would you recommend to start reading of Evola?
Might want to try one after finishing thus spoke zarathustra
Wow. This man was a prophet
It had been a while since I read Evola. I forgot this feeling. Nearly time for a walk in the rain.
revolt against the modern world
just finished MatR. Should I stick to the trilogy or get into some of his more esoteric works?
On self-discipline in a Nihilistic society
>"For now we must set aside such allusions to a higher dimension οf experience οf a liberated world in order to define more precisely what such a vision οf existence offers us ίη realistic terms. It is, in fact, the principle of purely being oneself. This is what remains after the elimination οf what philosophy calls "heteronomous morality," or morality based οn an external law or command." [...] there emerges a valid attitude for the man who must stay standing as a free being, even ίn the epoch of dissolution: to assume his own being into a willing, making it his own law, a law as absolute and autonomous as Kant's categorical imperative, but affirmed without regard for received values, for "good" or "evil," nor for happiness, pleasure, or pain. (Nietzsche too -regarded hedonism and eudaemonism, the abstract, inorganic search for pleasure and happiness, as symptoms οf weakening and decadence.) The man in question affirms and actualizes his own being without considering rewards or punishments, either here or in an afterlife, saying: "The way does not exist: this is my will, neither good nor bad, but my own."
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On the value of asceticism
>"Α lifelong discipline and an asceticism pursued inexorably for better or worse, through extreme trials, regardless οf oneself and others, may have the mere value of an increased and exasperated sensation οf "life," οf an ''Ι" whose sense οf itself comes οnly from this savage and embittered sensation. "
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Thanks. I'll buy it as soon as possible.
>The only true and patrician way
On the outsiders of modern society
>"The differentiated man cannot feel part οf a "society" like the present one, which is formless and has sunk to the level οf purely material, economic, "physical" values, and moreover lives at this level and follows its insane course under the sign οί the absurd. [...] The differentiated man feels absolutely outside οf society, he recognizes no moral claim that requires his inclusion in an absurd system; he can understand not only those who are outside, but even those who are against "society" - meaning against this society. Putting aside everything that does not directly concern him (because his way does not match that οf his contemporaries), he would be the last to endorse efforts to normalize and rehabilitate within "society" those who have had enough οf the game and are stigmatized as "unsuitable" and "asocial"- the anathema οf democratic societies. The ultimate intention οf such efforts is to narcotize those who can see through the absurd and nihilistic character οf today's collective life, behind all the "social" masks."
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On organizing one's Will
>"Once one has discovered through experiment which οf one's manifold tendencies is the central one, one sets about identifying it with one's will, stabilizing it, and organizing all one's secondary or divergent tendencies around it. This is what it means to give oneself a law, one's own law. As we have seen, the incapacity to do this, "the many discordant souls enclosed ίη my own breast," and the refusal to obey even before one is capable οf commanding oneself are causes οf the disaster." [...] There is a relevant saying: ''He who cannot command himself must obey.""
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Why do you post all these images of destroyed Germany??
for the mood I assume
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On courage and personal transcendence
>"we can indicate the terms in which to deal with the existential challenge ίη relation to life's negativity, tragedy, pain, problems, and absurdities. Seneca said that ηο spectacle is more pleasing to the gods than that of the superior man grappling with adversity. Οnly thus can he know his own strength- and Seneca adds that it is the men of valor who are sent to the riskiest positions or οn difficult missions, while the spineless and feeble are left behind. [...] Ιn our case, the basis for this courage refers to the dimension of transcendence in oneself: it is attested and confirmed in all situations of chaos and dissolution, thus turning them to our own advantage. It is the antithesis of an arrogant hardening of the physical individuality in all its forms, whether unilaterally Stoic or Nietzschean. Instead, it is the conscious activation in oneself of the other principle and of its strength, in experiences, moreover, that are not merely undergone but also sought."
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On summoning strength during societal collapse
>"Ιη some cases nowadays, the shock of reality and the consequent trauma may serve not to validate and increase a strength that is already present, but to reawaken it [...] Situations of depression, emptiness, or tragedy whose negative solution is the return to religion may through a positive reaction lead to this awakening. [...] this is [...] an injunction to face each experience and everything in one's existence that is uncertain, ambiguous, and dangerous with the feeling that one will never do anything other than follow one's own path. The essential thing in this attitude is a kind of transcendent confidence that gives security and intrepidity, and it can be included among the positive elements in the line of conduct that is gradually being delineated."
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Alright lads, I've read Revolt, I've read 'Ruins, I've read the Metaphysics of War. Am I ready for Ride the Tiger or should I read something else first?
Not an answer. Millions of my people died there.
Evola's Ride the Tiger is very defeatist. Pictures of Berlin turned to rubble compliment it
On supporting yourself in an age of Nihilistic
>"After the whole superstructure has been rejected or destroyed, and having for one's sole support one's own being, the ultimate meaning οf existing and living can spring only from α direct and absolute relationship between that being (between what one is in a limiting sense) and transcendence (transcendence in itself). This meaning is not given by anything extrinsic or external, anything added to the being when the latter turns to some other principle. [...] we repeat: Ιn a meaningless world, the absolute sense οf being depends almost exclusively οn this experience. If it has a positive outcome, the last limit falls away; transcendence and existence, freedom and necessity, possibility and reality coincide. Α centrality and invulnerability are realized without restriction in any situation, be it dark or light, detached or apparently open to every impulse or passion οf life. Above all, the essential conditions are thereby created for adapting, without losing oneself, to a world that has become free but left to its own devices, seized by irrationality and meaninglessness."
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On resilience and consistency
>"Whereas the Dionysian attitude mainly concerns the receptive side οf the testing and confirmation οί oneself while in the midst οf becoming, and perhaps when facing the unexpected, the irrational, and the problematic, the orientation οf which Ι have been speaking concerns the active side, in the specific and, in a way, external sense οf personal behavior and expression. [...] [It is] the action that arises from the deep and in a way supra-individual core οf being, in the form οf "being inasmuch as one acts." Whatever their object, one is involved in these actions. Their quality never varies, divides, οr multiplies: they are a pure expression οf the self"
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Very good list, better than suggesting people go headfirst into Revolt, good as that book may be.
Two remarks about Heathen Imperialism; the book sitting on my desk is called Pagan Imperialism, that might be a translation thing. The other more important remark is that Evola wrote it when he was younger. Later on in his life he admitted that he regretted writing this book, in the light of the advent neo-pagan and biological racist theory. The book is vehemently anti Christian in its outlook and may therefor appeal to a kind of reader. Evola himself had to recognize later on that Christianity was the Tradition of the West, in agreement with Guenon and other 'Traditionalists'.
Another addition to the reading list is "The Ancient City" by Fustel de Coulanges, since Evola refers to it often. It's an easy read, but it prepares you for the radical different outlook on life a Traditional man has. After having seen in it a good example of the ancient Roman Tradition, Evola's description of Tradition doesn't strike as fantastical anymore.
And yet another good addition is reading at least one of Guenon's major works. Evola held Guenon in very high regard and Guenon is a different 'type' than Evola, which is good for perspective.
what is heroism and self sacrifice.
also whole europe died in the streets of berlin
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On the interior state of the transcendent man
>"The state in question is that οf the man who is self-confident through having as the essential center of his personality not life, but Being. He can encounter everything, abandon himself to everything, and open himself to everything without losing himself. He accepts every experience, no longer in order to prove and know himself, but to unfold all his possibilities in view οf the transformations that they can work in him, and οf the new contents that offer and reveal themselves οn this path. [...] Ιn this state, outside events that might affect or upset his being can become the stimulus that activates an ever greater freedom and potential. The transcendent dimension, which holds firm through all turns of the tide, all ups and downs, will also play the part here of a transformer. Detachment coexists with a fully lived experience; a calm "being" is constantly wedded to the substance of life. The consequence of this union, existentially speaking, is a most particular kind of lucid inebriation, one might almost say intellectualized and magnetic [...] the perspective that interests us here is one οf clarity and presence οf mind in every encounter and evocation, and a calm that coexists with movement and transformations. It imparts stability to every step οί the way, and a continuity that is also that οf invulnerability and an invisible sovereignty."
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OP is a pretty cool guy.
Here are his biography threads.
>Adolf Hitler
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>Ted Kaczynski
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>Timothy McVeigh
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>Anders Breivik
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>Joseph Goebbels
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>William Cottrell
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>Adam Lanza
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>Christopher Knight
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>Christopher McCandless
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>Christopher Harper-Mercer
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>Bill Hicks
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Can someone further explain this Quote for me. Thanks in advance.
Also great thread in general. Reminded me to Order ride the Tiger.
The darkest time of my nation is not a fetish nor art decor.
On the maxim of the transcendent man
>"The character of the human type Ι have been describing must result in a certain orientation whose essence was defined in the traditional world by two basic maxims. The first of these is to act without regard to the fruits, without being affected by the chances of success or failure, victory or defeat, winning or losing, any more than by pleasure or pain, or by the approval or disapproval of others. This form of action has also been called "action without desire." The higher dimension, which is presumed to be present in oneself, manifests through the capacity to act not with less, but with more application than a normal type of man could bring to the ordinary forms of conditioned action. One can also speak here of "doing what needs to be done," impersonally. [...] the second traditional maxim, which is that of "action without acting." It is a paradoxical, Far Eastern way of describing a form of action that does not involve or stir the higher principle of "being" in itself."
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On overcoming basic pleasure and pain as primary motives
>"Α particular point that deserves to be highlighted concerns the real significance οf the idea that neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done. [...] One can in fact speak of a νital "decadence" when νalues of hedonism and comfort take first place in one's conduct of life. It implies a splitting and a loss of soul that are analogous to the form sexual pleasure takes for depraνed and νicious types. [...] Pure action inνolνes the other kind of pleasure or happiness, which it would be wrong to imagine as inhabiting an arid, abstracted, and soulless climate. There, too, there can be fire and νigor, but of a νery special kind, with the constant presence and transparency of the higher, calm, and detached principle -which, as Ι haνe said, is the true acting principle here."
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you are clearly not in a state to start with evola then, if you don't get it.
I'm not the one posting them. And most people approach "the darkest time of your nation" with utter indifference
also the darkest time of your nation is now, if you are unable to grasp the idea of a reich., the nation is everything you have left and after germania lost her soul, now her mindless body crumbles in pain and you should be at least worried about this if you are a mere nationalist.
>timothy mcveigh
>bill hicks
>christopher harper mercer
what's so special about them to deserve a thread like hitler or goebbels?
You are neither in the position, nor do you have the right to tell me this. And if you represent the outcome of E I pass.
BUMP. I was first in your Goebbels thread and love your work, user
well maybe the new "right" fits you better
On the transcendent man's reaction to imposed guilt
>"If we assume that the being has reached a high grade οί unification, everything resembling an "inner sanction" can be interpreted ίη the same terms-positive feelings will arise in the case οf one line οf action, negative in the case οf an opposite line, thus conforming to "good" or "evil" according to their meanings ίη a certain society, a certain social stratum, a certain civilization, and a certain epoch. Apart from purely external and social reactions, a man may suffer, feel remorse, guilt, or shame when he acts contrary to the tendency that still prevails in his depths (for the ordinary man, nearly always through hereditary and social conditioning active in his subconscious), and which has only apparently been silenced by other tendencies and by the dictate οf the "physical." [...] These emotional reactions are purely psychological ίη character and origin. They may be indifferent to the intrinsic quality οί the actions, and they have no transcendent significance, no character οf "moral sanctions." They are facts that are "natural" in their own way, οη which one should not superimpose a mythology οf moral interpretations if one has arrived at true inner freedom. "
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On existentialism and transcendence
>"Existentialism is a projection οf modern man in crisis, rather than οf modern man beyond crisis. Anyone who already possesses that inner dignity described above, as natural as it is detached, or who "has long wandered ίη a strange land, lost among things and contingencies," finds this philosophy absolutely alien to him. Through crises, tests, errors, destructions, and successes he has rediscovered the Self, and he is reestablished in the Self, in Being, in a calm and unshakable mode."
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OP is doing it out of the goodness of his heart so gets to make threads on whatever he likes?
Reminder that Evola would be a Sup Forumslack if he were still alive
yeah good point
you think he would be a weeb with a waifu too.
raising the ideal in a woman over the materialistic aspects of the modern woman.
so would Nietzsche and Spengler
On the man undefeated by Nihilism
>"Το sum up, the man for whom the new freedom does not spell ruin, whether because, given his special structure, he already has a firm base in himself, or because he is in the process of conquering it through an existential rupture of levels that reestablishes contact with the higher dimension of "being" - this man will possess a vision of reality stripped of the human and moral element, free from the projections of subjectivity and from conceptual, finalistic, and theistic superstructures. [...] [It] is the return of the person himself to pure being: the freedom of pure existence in the outside world is confirmed in the naked assumption of his own nature, from which he draws his own rule. [...] After everything has collapsed and in a climate of dissolution, there is only one solution to the problem of an unconditioned and intangible meaning to life: the direct assumption of one's own naked being as a function of transcendence. "
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On men who are unprepared
>"Transcendence [...] ought to furnish existence with a foundation of calm and incomparable security [...] and an absolute decisiνeness in action. Instead, it feeds all the emotional complexes of the man in crisis: angst, nausea, disquiet, finding his own being problematical, the feeling of an obscure guilt or fall, deracination, a feeling of the absurd and the irrational, an unadmitted solitude [...]. an inνocation of the "incarnate spirit," the weight of an incomprehensible responsibility -incomprehensible, because he cannot resort to oνertly religious (and hence coherent) positions [...], where angst refers to the sentiment of the soul that is alone, fallen, and abandoned to itself in the presence of God. Ιn all of this, feelings appear like those that Nietzsche warned about in the case of a man who has made himself free without haνing the necessary stature: feelings that kill and shatter a man-modern man-if he is incapable of killing them."
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This hurts to read... I can't believe this is what we've been reduced to.
>raising the ideal in a woman over the materialistic aspects of the modern woman.
So now you understand what a waifu really is. Precious few come to know what it really means to have a waifu so many treat it like some fleeting sexual fantasy. It is nothing of the sort it is divine love that transcends the flesh.
>So now you understand what a waifu really is
I am from Sup Forums my friend
oh boy, the hinduboo sex magician who also praised muslim "traditionalism"
On anonymity and Tradition
>"Traditionality in the higher sense is a type οf confirmation οf [...] anonymity, or an approach to it within a particular field οf action. One could eνen speak οf the uniνersalization and eternalization οf the person; but these expressions haνe deteriorated through rhetorical and abstract usages that haνe concealed any possible concrete or existential meaning. [...] the aforementioned conversion, apparently paradoxical, οf the personal being into an impersonal being, makes itself known [where] the work is more visible than the creator, the objective more than the subjective; where in the human field something is reflected οf that nudity and purity that belongs to the grand forces οf nature"
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On a civilization of anonymous heroes
>"One could speak οf a "civilization οf anonymous heroes"; but the style οf anonymity is also realized in the speculative domain, where it goes without saying that what is thought according to the truth cannot be signed with the name οf an individual. One also recalls the custom οf abandoning one's own name and taking another that no longer refers to the individual, to the man, but to the function or superior vocation, where the personality is summoned to a higher obligation (for instance, royalty and pontificate, monastic orders, and so οn). ΑΙΙ this finds its full significance in a traditional environment."
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>the aforementioned conversion, apparently paradoxical, οf the personal being into an impersonal being, makes itself known [where] the work is more visible than the creator, the objective more than the subjective; where in the human field something is reflected οf that nudity and purity that belongs to the grand forces οf nature"
So Sup Forums is a force of nature where the work outshines the individual. Makes perfect sense actually.
That's pretty much exactly what it is. If society crashes, which it sure looks like it's going to, something will definitely arise from the ashes. At this point it's better to position ourselves to be that thing, rather than attempting to salvage this decayed and perverted experiment in (((democracy))). Democracy only works in ethnically-pure states. That's the missing part of the equation everyone refuses to admit to.