I mean, I don’t put much weight behind the opinions of riders of the intellectual short bus. Opinions don’t matter. Arguments do. And in argument, moralistic, rationalistic, and pseudoscientific don’t matter. Either a critic can make a testimonial (ratio-operational-scientific) argument or one can’t. Most likely a critic can’t make even a trivial one. That’s before we even get to whether he can make one that’s meaningful. We are creatures of habits, and our arguments consist largely of a string of habits. And our impression or pretense of understanding is a false reward to keep us thinking and acting under an illusion of competence despite the evidence to the contrary. There are many dehmanizing truths in intellectual history and the degree to which few humans possess material (marginally different) agency is terrifyingly small. We are well trained apes and while sentience and consciousness exist in almost all of us, agency is still a rarity.
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The Number of Worthless Opinions Has No Bearing
I mean, I don’t put much weight behind the opinions of riders of the intellectual short bus. Opinions don’t matter. Arguments do. And in argument, moralistic, rationalistic, and pseudoscientific don’t matter. Either a critic can make a testimonial (ratio-operational-scientific) argument or one can’t. Most likely a critic can’t make even a trivial one. That’s before we even get to whether he can make one that’s meaningful. We are creatures of habits, and our arguments consist largely of a string of habits. And our impression or pretense of understanding is a false reward to keep us thinking and acting under an illusion of competence despite the evidence to the contrary. There are many dehmanizing truths in intellectual history and the degree to which few humans possess material (marginally different) agency is terrifyingly small. We are well trained apes and while sentience and consciousness exist in almost all of us, agency is still a rarity.
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Switzerland = Templars
—“Friendly reminder that the Swiss Confederacy was founded on August 1st 1291, just two months after the fall of the last Templar stronghold of Acres in the last crusade in the Holy Land… Coincidence? I think not.”—Alexander Nikolaos Arvanitis
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Switzerland = Templars
—“Friendly reminder that the Swiss Confederacy was founded on August 1st 1291, just two months after the fall of the last Templar stronghold of Acres in the last crusade in the Holy Land… Coincidence? I think not.”—Alexander Nikolaos Arvanitis
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Verility Creates a Market for Femininity
—“The best and most authentic reaction against feminism and against every other female aberration should not be aimed at women as such, but at men instead. It should not be expected of women that they return to what they really are and thus reestablish the necessary inner and outer conditions for a reintegration of a superior race, when men themselves retain only the semblance of true virility.”— Julius Evola
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Verility Creates a Market for Femininity
—“The best and most authentic reaction against feminism and against every other female aberration should not be aimed at women as such, but at men instead. It should not be expected of women that they return to what they really are and thus reestablish the necessary inner and outer conditions for a reintegration of a superior race, when men themselves retain only the semblance of true virility.”— Julius Evola
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The Poverty of Evolas Sophisms and Moralisms
Trying to find Evola quotes that contain any material content is searching for needles in haystacks. I can find some. But not many. Why? He cannot define the words he uses. So he is relying upon suggestion and demand for substitution by the reader. The reader, providing that substitution, is therefore is firmly convinced that Evola evokes the reader’s agreement, when instead, Evola evokes only the act of agreement with one’s self, and the illusion that Evola shares that sentiment.
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The Poverty of Evolas Sophisms and Moralisms
Trying to find Evola quotes that contain any material content is searching for needles in haystacks. I can find some. But not many. Why? He cannot define the words he uses. So he is relying upon suggestion and demand for substitution by the reader. The reader, providing that substitution, is therefore is firmly convinced that Evola evokes the reader’s agreement, when instead, Evola evokes only the act of agreement with one’s self, and the illusion that Evola shares that sentiment.
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Silly old men try to restore the past.
—“A doctrine of the state can only propose values to test the elective affinities and the dominant or latent vocations of a nation. If a people cannot or does not want to acknowledge the values that we have called ‘traditional’, and which define a true Right, it deserves to be left to itself. At most, we can point out to it the illusions and suggestions of which it has been or is the victim, which are due to a general action which has often been systematically organised, and to regressive processes. If not even this leads to a sensible result, this people will suffer the fate that it has created, by making use of its ‘liberty’.” ― Julius Evola I mean, this is a great example. Define “true right”, Tradition and Traditional. And do so in a way that does not require men of knowledge of the universe to repeat sophisms or submit to fairy stories. We cannot uninvent knowledge of the world that gives us our dominion over it and return to prior states of ignorance. We must create prior VALUE SYSTEMS out of new language, not old. Silly old men try to restore the past. Those of us with some teaspoon of wisdom merely take lessons of past and present and propose solutions to old problems in the framing of the present.
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Silly old men try to restore the past.
—“A doctrine of the state can only propose values to test the elective affinities and the dominant or latent vocations of a nation. If a people cannot or does not want to acknowledge the values that we have called ‘traditional’, and which define a true Right, it deserves to be left to itself. At most, we can point out to it the illusions and suggestions of which it has been or is the victim, which are due to a general action which has often been systematically organised, and to regressive processes. If not even this leads to a sensible result, this people will suffer the fate that it has created, by making use of its ‘liberty’.” ― Julius Evola I mean, this is a great example. Define “true right”, Tradition and Traditional. And do so in a way that does not require men of knowledge of the universe to repeat sophisms or submit to fairy stories. We cannot uninvent knowledge of the world that gives us our dominion over it and return to prior states of ignorance. We must create prior VALUE SYSTEMS out of new language, not old. Silly old men try to restore the past. Those of us with some teaspoon of wisdom merely take lessons of past and present and propose solutions to old problems in the framing of the present.