Gornahoor has been emphasizing the ancient ideal of polis over against the modern cosmopolitanism and egalitarianism. One might note that democracy is a code word; it certainly doesn’t stand for government of the people for the people – just ask the patriotic, conservative British Jew Glasman what happens when you … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2011
A Pest in a Street full of Men
The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost. You are mediocre. Continue reading
Further Misunderstandings of the Pagan Worldview
Evola continues his critique by pointing out that the goal should be to transcend Christianity by integrating it into something more comprehensive that incorporates the essential elements of the genuine antique paganism. This is actually analogous to the Catholic position as described by Fr. Heinrich Denifle: The Catholic Church is … Continue reading
What is a Nation
The existence of a nation is a daily plebiscite. ~ Ernest Renan In 1882, the one-time seminarian turned positivist historian, Ernest Renan, delivered his influential lecture “What is a nation”. That the question even arises is a sign of modernity and Renan’s ultimate answer seems far from the answer of … Continue reading
Creative and Heroic Action
I have recently been asked why we are so “one-sided”. Such a thought can arise only in a mind conditioned to think on a single plane, thus interpreting everything polemically, in the manner of a teeter-totter. The Traditional mind, on the other hand, thinks in terms of “transcendence”, which Evola … Continue reading
The Russian Turn
Alexander Dugin has pointed out that Russia has had no Enlightenment. In the context of this survival & ancient adversarial relationship towards the West, Nicholas Berdyaev is worth quoting in full (he is analyzing the Westernizer Trubetskoi): In this world there is no mystical translucency. But after his devastating of … Continue reading
Bonfire of the Vanities
One cannot possess the virtues, while remaining obsessed with lusts and the “satisfaction of life”. And where there is lawlessness, someone must lay down the law. Continue reading
Call to Empire
As for the “pagan” unity of the two powers, spiritual and temporal, far from signifying their confusion, it implied the supreme right that, in conformity to the tradition of the “solar race”, the spiritual authority has and must have at the center of every normal State. Continue reading
Neopaganism and Naturalism
⇐ Previous section Next section ⇒ Keeping all this in mind, we come today to discover a peculiar paradox: to wit, such a paganism never even existed but was constructed by Christian apologetics. Yet some “pagan” and anti-Christian movements of racism and extreme nationalism very frequently accept it, thus threatening to … Continue reading
The Misunderstanding of Paganism
Next section ⇒ In order to illustrate some of the points made recently, we have invited an old friend, Tony Ciapo, to provide translations, with commentary, of some of Evola’s works from Sintesi di dottrina della razza,Defesa della razza, and Evola’s commentary on the Fascist movements of the first half of the … Continue reading