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>>22648658
RIP o/

>Far Cry 5 Presents: When the World Falls (Original Game Soundtrack) | The Hope County Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW2tLhmkOII

>>22478089
After the great Neinsagen comes the great Jasagen

Evola

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>>22012825
Hitler was all of us

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>>21863929
Spengler:
“The coming of Caesarism breaks the dictature of money and its political weapon, democracy. After a long triumph of world-city economy and its interests over political creative force, the political side of life manifests itself after all as the stronger of the two. The sword is victorious over the money, the master-will subdues again the plunderer-will. If we call these money-powers 'Capitalism,' then we may designate as Socialism the will to call into life a mighty politico-economic order that transcends all class interests, a system of lofty thoughtfulness and duty-sense that keeps the whole in fine condition for the decisive battle of its history, and this battle is also the battle of money and law. The private powers of the economy want free paths for their acquisition of great resources. No legislation must stand in their way. They want to make the laws themselves, in their interests, and to that end they make use of the tool they have made for themselves, democracy, the subsidized party. Law needs, in order to resist this onslaught, a high tradition and an ambition of strong families that finds its satisfaction not in the heaping-up of riches, but in the tasks of true rulership, above and beyond all money-advantage. A power can be overthrown only by another power, not by a principle, and no power that can confront money is left but this one. Money is overthrown and abolished only by blood.”

Yockey:
“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the Rule of Money; Order to Social Chaos, Hierarchy to Equality, socio-economico-political Stability to constant Flux; glad assumption of Duties to whining for Rights; Socialism to Capitalism, ethically, economically, politically; the Rebirth of Religion to Materialism; Fertility to Sterility; the spirit of Heroism to the spirit of Trade; the principle of Responsibility to Parliamentarism; the idea of Polarity of Man and Woman to Feminism; the idea of the individual task to the ideal of ‘happiness’; Discipline to Propaganda-compulsion; the higher unities of family, society, State to social atomism; Marriage to the Communistic ideal of free love; economic self-sufficiency to senseless trade as an end in itself; the inner imperative to Rationalism.”

>>21724606
>Spengler asserts that democracy is simply the political weapon of money, and the media are the means through which money operates a democratic political system. The thorough penetration of money's power throughout a society is yet another marker of the shift from Culture to Civilization.

>Democracy and plutocracy are equivalent in Spengler's argument. The "tragic comedy of the world-improvers and freedom-teachers" is that they are simply assisting money to be more effective. The principles of equality, natural rights, universal suffrage, and freedom of the press are all disguises for class war (the bourgeois against the aristocracy). Freedom, to Spengler, is a negative concept, simply entailing the repudiation of any tradition. In reality, freedom of the press requires money, and entails ownership, thus serving money at the end. Suffrage involves electioneering, in which the donations rule the day. The ideologies espoused by candidates, whether Socialism or Liberalism, are set in motion by, and ultimately serve, only money. "Free" press does not spread free opinion—it generates opinion, Spengler maintains.

>Spengler admits that in his era money has already won, in the form of democracy. But in destroying the old elements of the Culture, it prepares the way for the rise of a new and overpowering figure: the Caesar. Before such a leader, money collapses, and in the Imperial Age the politics of money fades away.

>As soon as the election process becomes organized by political leaders, to the extent that money allows, the vote ceases to be truly significant. It is no more than a recorded opinion of the masses on the organizations of government over which they possess no positive influence whatsoever.

>Spengler notes that the greater the concentration of wealth in individuals, the more the fight for political power revolves around questions of money. One cannot even call this corruption or degeneracy, because this is in fact the necessary end of mature democratic systems.

>On the subject of the press, Spengler is equally contemptuous. Instead of conversations between men, the press and the "electrical news-service keep the waking-consciousness of whole people and continents under a deafening drum-fire of theses, catchwords, standpoints, scenes, feelings, day by day and year by year." Through the media, money is turned into force—the more spent, the more intense its influence.

>The only force which can counter money, in Spengler's estimation, is blood.

Read August Kubizek's "The Young Hitler I Knew," and make sure you stick with it and finish it. Anger and hate are ambivalent forces. They are neither necessarily good nor necessarily bad. You are living in a deeply, horrifically sick society of sloppy selfish monsters who don't even know where they are or who they are, yet feel entitled to demand everything of every stranger they meet, in a kind of Hobbesian "bellum omnium contra omnes," but not in a cool sociopath way, more in the pig-headed way described by Gasset:
>As today his surroundings do not so force him, the eternal mass-man, true to his character, ceases to appeal to any authority other than himself, and feels himself lord of his own existence. Conversely the select man, the excellent man is urged by interior necessity to appeal to some standard beyond himself, superior to himself, into whose service he freely enters. ... Contrary to what is usually thought, it is the man of excellence, not the common man who lives in essential servitude. Life has no savour for him unless he makes it consist in service to something transcendent. Hence he does not look upon the necessity of serving as an oppression. When, by chance, such necessity is lacking, he grows restless and invents some new standard, more difficult, more exigent, with which to coerce himself. This is life lived as a discipline — the noble life.

Everyone will tell you that the only answer to "I'm angry" is to stop being angry. But that isn't necessarily true. The world needs its prophets and its remonstrators. It DOESN'T need seething babbies who explode on some random piece of shit in an airport line or shoot a bunch of old ladies at the grocery store. All I'm saying is that entirely focusing on repressing these feelings, rather than channeling them into some kind of productive and even ultimately peaceful and socially acceptable firebrand activity, may lead to greater problems in the long run (even if it's only crushing your soul and your uniqueness invisibly), if the "exploding/repressing" dichotomy is a false one to begin with.

I'm not a huge Peterson fan but unironically look up some of his videos or articles or whatever on disgust vs. fear, how it's a big mistake to think that the "great despisers" (Nietzsche) are necessarily motivated by "fear" of sloppy, awful, invasive, undifferentiated people who spread like weeds and choke out all true human growth. You may just have a heightened sensitivity to degeneracy. Nietzsche:
>I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.

Read Evola on "evasive man," a so-so translation of "uomo sfuggente": shrinking, receding man, similar to Nietzsche's "last men." It is NORMAL to be disgusted by filth, degeneration, decay, sloppiness, piggishness. "Wrong life cannot be lived rightly" (Adorno). It's NOT normal to want to kill some fat pig in line at Denny's for being a symptom of a disease. Focus your anger, cure the disease.

Grandpa Evola seems so nice and sincere in that video. Wish I could have met him.

>>20421547
>Nobody is replacing anyone,
>accept that birth rates decline in civilized societies and counteract that with immigration programs
Ten years ago it gave me genuine anxiety that people as dishonest as you controlled everything, and people as stupid as you allowed them to. Now I am just looking forward to the next ten years as your entire "reasonable" bourgeois worldview implodes before your eyes.

>>20360225
Create a world where magical moments like that are possible. Don't do it for you, do it for those who are being deprived of such moments right now, but don't even have the one benefit you at least have, being conscious of it.

Sometimes you have to shelf The Magic Mountain and read some Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen and Gedanke im Krieg.

>>20287303
>It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

>It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.
J.S. Mill

>As one advances in life, one realises more and more that the majority of men — and of women — are incapable of any other effort than that strictly imposed on them as a reaction to external compulsion. And for that reason, those few individuals we come across who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out isolated, monumentalised, so to speak, in our experience. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training. Training = askesis. These are the ascetics.
Ortega y Gasset

>>20273672
Fascism is cool

>Spengler asserts that democracy is simply the political weapon of money, and the media are the means through which money operates a democratic political system. The thorough penetration of money's power throughout a society is yet another marker of the shift from Culture to Civilization.

>Democracy and plutocracy are equivalent in Spengler's argument. The "tragic comedy of the world-improvers and freedom-teachers" is that they are simply assisting money to be more effective. The principles of equality, natural rights, universal suffrage, and freedom of the press are all disguises for class war (the bourgeois against the aristocracy). Freedom, to Spengler, is a negative concept, simply entailing the repudiation of any tradition. In reality, freedom of the press requires money, and entails ownership, thus serving money at the end. Suffrage involves electioneering, in which the donations rule the day. The ideologies espoused by candidates, whether Socialism or Liberalism, are set in motion by, and ultimately serve, only money. "Free" press does not spread free opinion—it generates opinion, Spengler maintains.

>Spengler admits that in his era money has already won, in the form of democracy. But in destroying the old elements of the Culture, it prepares the way for the rise of a new and overpowering figure: the Caesar. Before such a leader, money collapses, and in the Imperial Age the politics of money fades away.

>As soon as the election process becomes organized by political leaders, to the extent that money allows, the vote ceases to be truly significant. It is no more than a recorded opinion of the masses on the organizations of government over which they possess no positive influence whatsoever.

>Spengler notes that the greater the concentration of wealth in individuals, the more the fight for political power revolves around questions of money. One cannot even call this corruption or degeneracy, because this is in fact the necessary end of mature democratic systems.

>On the subject of the press, Spengler is equally contemptuous. Instead of conversations between men, the press and the "electrical news-service keep the waking-consciousness of whole people and continents under a deafening drum-fire of theses, catchwords, standpoints, scenes, feelings, day by day and year by year." Through the media, money is turned into force—the more spent, the more intense its influence.

>The only force which can counter money, in Spengler's estimation, is blood.

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>>19642722
Leftists = tranny enablers, drug addicted greasy people, trust fund kids slumming as "activists" and antifa because they know political judges will have their charges dropped

Right wingers = anti-capitalist, anti-bourgeois, anti-semitic (all the same thing)

"Conservatives" = tranny enabler enablers, lawyers for big business and finance, crypto-jews

>>19618971
Try reading the collected speeches of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera. It's not a long book and you can read individual speeches quickly so it will give you a sense quickly. Also read Codreanu's For My Legionaries.

Read Zeev Sternhell, A. James Gregor for Italian Fascism and French integralism and national syndicalism.

For the metahistorical and metapolitical aspects of fascism and why the international financial world order (Anglo-American and Jewish) is obsessed with destroying it, read:
https://counter-currents.com/tag/breaking-the-bondage-of-interest/
and be on the lookout for Gottfried Feder and Walther Darre.

Maurice Bardeche is also good:
https://counter-currents.com/2013/10/the-fascist-dream-part-1/
>This new image of man is what is essential. The characteristics of fascism, we have seen, are disputable, and only a small number of those we have examined have been retained in a logical definition of fascism. The single party, police methods, propaganda, Caesarism, the very presence of a Führer are not necessarily attributes of fascism; still less an alliance with reactionary politics, the refusal of control and open membership to the masses, the inevitability of prestige operations and military raids.

>A firm and stable direction of the nation, the primacy of the national interest over private interests, the necessity of a discipline loyally accepted by the country, are the true political foundations of fascism, those that emerge from its very definition. Power may be exercised in a fascist state by a central committee, a council, or a junta as well as by a designated leader; such rule need not be brutal and abusive. It can also be tolerant and supple. The essential political instrument of fascism is the role that it grants to a minority of disinterested and committed militants capable of leading by the example of their own lives and to bear the message of a just, loyal, and honesty polity. The famous fascist methods are thus constantly and ceaselessly reevaluated. What is more important than mechanisms is the idea that fascism has of man and freedom.

This is also similar to Evola's definition of fascism, and why he called himself a "superfascist," a higher ideal fascist and thus above any contingent historical fascism.

>>19589922
If it's new sincerity vs. Jew sincerity, sorry but I'm picking the former.

Evola, Handbook for Right Wing Youth

I was convinced by pic related to read Evola, where do i start with him

Is there anyone on this board who has actually read Evola and has a valid criticism of him?

Every time I see someone saying 'he's racist/fascist' or something along those lines I just can't help but think they've never read anything he wrote, because his views on race are really not that interesting compared to some of his other views which are actually much more extreme.

>D&G’s answer relies heavily on the notion of Microfascism, which is related to the micropolitics mentioned above. It’s related to the way desire produces rules. For instance, when I ride the subway, I follow a rule that tells me to take my MetroCard out before I get to the turnstile. Or, to take another example, I try to walk on the right-hand side of the stairs. But, frequently, I find myself behind someone who doesn’t take their subway card out beforehand, or who meanders around the stairs like it doesn’t matter. In response I think: they should follow the rules!—this is microfascism. It’s fundamentally the desire for the trains to run on time. But, notice, what I want here is for others to follow my rule. Maybe I even have reasons for this—it’s a good rule, after all!—but, regardless, this amounts to imposing my desire on others. Write this large and you get Mussolini or Franco or whatever.

Had to google. Jesus, what stereotypical hippie faggotry. I hope (and have a feeling) it was more subtle in D&G than this, but I assume most self-proclaimed followers of D&G are about as subtle as this. Fags.

>>18784228
That's my favourite Evola quote, and the true answer. The answer is not to be content with mere microfascisms. Identify the suprafascist transcendent and become macrofascist in the immanent. Rules for the sake of rules are meaningless. What matters is rules that are perennially true and thus worth following and defending.

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