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   You Will (Not) Escape ☸️ (ubernigga@wizard.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 12:23:45 JST You Will (Not) Escape ☸️

   My deep dive into Julius Evola has been disappointing. I knew him from short articles before but his long form books are full of schizophrenic revisionism.

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     Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 12:23:44 JST Forest of Enchantment

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     @ubernigga You have to keep in mind that his books were written in the 30s and that he's coming from a traditionalist (ancient era) viewpoint.
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     You Will (Not) Escape ☸️ (ubernigga@wizard.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 12:36:43 JST You Will (Not) Escape ☸️

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     @Forestofenchantment Traditionalist (making shit up as he goes) viewpoint.

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     You Will (Not) Escape ☸️ (ubernigga@wizard.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 12:37:14 JST You Will (Not) Escape ☸️

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     @Forestofenchantment The ways he's wrong isn't really excusable by the era he's writing in., whether it's the 30's or the 70's.

     Eastern scholarship wasn't great but he's often going against the grain in ways that don't make sense.

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     Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 12:41:12 JST Forest of Enchantment

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     @ubernigga Have to agree with you on the later statement. His writings in Revolt on the Varna and all castes being spiritually equal seem puzzling...
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     Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 12:45:12 JST Forest of Enchantment

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     @wertimer @ubernigga Evola seriously says that in Revolt. Specifically that all castes in the Varna serve different functions determined by the spiritual purity of their actions in the spiritual plane, but from a top-down perspective of the Gods, the Brahmin and the untouchables are both performing spiritually equal acts, as they're both doing what traditional society asks of them.
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     wertimer (wertimer@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 12:45:13 JST wertimer

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     @Forestofenchantment @ubernigga
     >all castes being spiritually equal
     What is this doing in my esoteric racism
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     You Will (Not) Escape ☸️ (ubernigga@wizard.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 12:47:08 JST You Will (Not) Escape ☸️

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     @Forestofenchantment His method is a dime a dozen in Christian scholarship. He has his own ideal that isn't particularly rooted in a tradition at all, but he's a huge dork and likes reading old books that no one else does, which makes it easy to repurpose ancient language for his own internal idealism.

     Guenon fits the label "traditionalist" more aptly. His methods weren't perfect either but his project is based in solving real tangible defect that developed in the Western tradition.

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     of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 12:47:50 JST of nothing

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     @Forestofenchantment @wertimer @ubernigga
     >tell untouchables that they're fucking up and wrong for living as untouchables
     >untouchables quit and become brahmins
     >brahmin house prices skyrocket
     >brahmins are priced out of the brahmin quality of life
     >everyone drops a caste level
     IGNORE THIS GUY UNTOUCHABLES
     YOU ARE ALL DOING FINE
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     You Will (Not) Escape ☸️ (ubernigga@wizard.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 12:48:49 JST You Will (Not) Escape ☸️

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     @Forestofenchantment Evola's best works are either short, where he briefly informs readers at a superficial level, or internal critiques of alternative positions. He falls apart when he interprets his own view of tradition.

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     You Will (Not) Escape ☸️ (ubernigga@wizard.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 12:52:02 JST You Will (Not) Escape ☸️

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     @Forestofenchantment @wertimer If he believed in rebirth, this would actually be a defensible position, but as far as I can tell he explicitly writes it off as an accretion.

     The point he's trying to make is that everyone is served best by fulfilling the role they're born to do, no shoving square pegs in round holes, which is a fine idea, but the way he's using tradition to justify that is wrong.

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     Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 13:01:16 JST Forest of Enchantment

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     @ubernigga @wertimer He considers instances of reincarnation as different manifestations of transcendence, dismissing the notion that anybody could reincarnate or something like that.
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     You Will (Not) Escape ☸️ (ubernigga@wizard.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 13:48:40 JST You Will (Not) Escape ☸️

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     @Forestofenchantment @wertimer While dismissing psychological methods out of the other side of his mouth 😂

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