/lit/ - Literature

>>21773114
>That is the perfect end to his story. He was a man so beleaguered by this Deimiurgic hellscape we call a world that even DEATH spat on him. That's what awaits all of us.
200% based

>>19513178
The older literature of Japan is steeped in the traditions that existed in the prewar period, this gives rise to themes that many westerners still struggle to understand and is in many ways the "true" Japan...themes of eroticism entwined with extreme violence...however the modern Japanese culture is mostly trivial and does not deal with anything that punctures the mask of the superficial and caters towards those of a childish and American sensibility...it is more palatable to undiscerning people but reflects a Japan spiritually ruined by the war and ensnared by the American dollar...it only only maintains a facade of the once highly unique Japanese culture

>>19460178
Remembered forever.

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>>19187470
Contrary to what you think, he did have sincere political intentions with his literature and actions. He did intend his death to be a message to the Emperor.

>>18947588
I don't have anything else to add, besides these two pages I got awhile back here in /lit/.
They are two very intereresting concepts: Volksgeist and Kokutai. They both show the warrior soul of each ethnic group; no wonder they allied during WW2.
(I have a question: does anyone know a good book which talks about Japanese mythology? I find it very interesting, despite not knowing a single bit about it.)

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https://counter-currents.com/2012/05/marxism-and-the-frankfurt-school/
>In all Marxist groups you get the rather weak, pacifistic, loving, humanistic people. The vicar’s daughter who believes human nature isn’t . . . right. If only we could be nicer to each other, if only we could spread more love. You get these people always in ultra left and communist groups, and next to them on the podium, next to them in the auditorium, [are] your utterly nihilistic, ruthless, virtually criminal types who want to use the structure of power when they get it to crush those underneath them, don’t give a damn about ideology, and are actually amongst the most misanthropic people you could ever meet. And you have these extremes of the innocent lovey and the sort of sadistic amoralist in the same group.
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>All of the classical liberal thinkers from Adam Smith onwards who underpinned capitalism as an idea, Marx doesn’t think up an original theory in relation to them, he critiques them. All Marxism is a shadow; it’s a critique; it’s a sort of feeding on the carcass of something which exists before you. You critique it, you turn it around, you re-engineer it and you come to [unintelligible] on the basis of a negation. So the negation of that which exists before is the key to this type of thinking. And then you negate the negation, and then you negate the negation of the negation and you go on and on.
>The most radical version of state communism is Trotskyism, the idea that you have a regime that renews itself through endless and perpetual struggle. “There is no rest!” “there is no motion!” Trotsky wrote endless sentences like this “no love, no serenity, no stillness, no motion, only the struggle!” And of course Stalin took him at his word, which is why he purged them all from the party after 1928.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EFTe3AXo1o
>>18623574
based posts, love me some Mishima

>>18233422
he had some based quotes

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>>16870474
Contradiction foments self-overcoming and is ubermenschian

What 欧米人 don't seem to realize is that public image vs private self is a huge part of Japanese social dynamic and LARPing is a noble process of representing/becoming an ideal

Condolences, OP.

I recommend Evola unironically. But not a meme reading of him like the typical zoomer has. He was trying to do what your friend was trying to do, in a way that would establish a paradigm and allow others to do it, and give strength to those who were already trying (whether they realised it or not). Start with his Points of Orientation https://www.gornahoor.net/?p=4428 (this is just the first one, keep clicking along). Then read enough shorter essays like those in the Handbook for Youth to see if you want to read his longer books.

This will at least give you a sense. Evola wants to give you the ability to find and cultivate your own backbone, until it is strong enough to make your whole being into a backbone that orients the "body" of your life around you, and then your life will become a backbone for others, and a beacon to others to do the same thing for themselves, like your friend did for you. When enough men like this get together they will create an unspoken order and understanding between one another, and this can then become the foundation for a great culture, a culture that can withstand the disintegrating effects of modernity.

Coming together and disintegrating are both natural forces. Cultures wax and wane and undergo cataclysms. What isn't natural is that the disintegrating forces, intentional or not, have become completely dominant. At every level they are discouraging and torturing people like you and your friend, breaking up associations of men, encouraging weakness hedonism and selfishness, encouraging anything with a backbone (whether individuals groups or countries) to hate itself and disintegrate.

Pic related is Mishima, who did the same thing even though across the world from Evola. Men with backbones are still out there. It's the natural will of the human spirit. You are fighting back every time you try to make something of yourself and to create order in chaos. You will find that you are never creating arbitrary order (arbitrariness is chaos, and the forces of chaos always want you to think exactly that all "creation of order" is just more arbitrariness, therefore why not just do nothing instead?), you are always finding existing orders trying to come into being and joining with them as an equal, as long as you have created the seeds of order within yourself too. Go looking for these deeper currents and you will find them in the world as they awaken in you, in tandem.

>>16446771
I think Mishima was being too deterministic and apocalyptic here, but still interesting.

>>16350779
He has about five or six books you read before his tetralogy.

As far as I can remember, they are:

-The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
-The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
-Confessions of a Mask(remember it's *semi*-biographical)
-The Sound of Waves
-Thirst for Love
-Patriotism(the movie directed and acted in by him)
-Afraid to Die(a movie he acted in which is a good movie but is also just fun to watch him act in as "le cool guy")
-Sun ans Steel

That's pretty much it, but there are a ton of other works of Mishima such as in his native Japanese play form, or more intellectual and philosophical topics.

>>16350910
Indeed, though not the Op, Yukio Mishima's more purely intellectual ideas and content are radically ignored.

This is a favourite pic.

anyone know where this is from?

>>15881391
Some of Mishima's last thoughts, which I count sincere, and think shows his political actions to have been more than egoism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmjXp_AYg0

Yes.

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>>15695810
Seems like Yukio Mishima was somewhat influenced by Hegel then.

I also wonder, how is it that in the philosophies of a Heidegger or Hegel they can exactly position a generally speaking "disconnection" from being? I mean, I can understand it, but speaking of a planning, how do they reason it?

>>15684821
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmjXp_AYg0
I miss him, bros

>>15657001
Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist