Editor’s Note: I decided to reprint the following commentary by Mark Richardson because it makes some valuable points about the limits of modern liberalism. After I had formatted it, I followed a link to the original story upon which Richardson is commenting. There I discovered that his article also illustrates the fatal limit of [...]
Author’s Note: The following excerpt is from a longer, footnoted article titled “Freedom’s Racial Imperative: A Heideggerian Argument for the Self-Assertion of Peoples of European Descent” that appeared in the fall 2006 issue of The Occidental Quarterly. Minor changes have been made for the sake of this format. Thanks to Dave Cooper for the idea.
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Ordinarily the study of human evolution focuses on the species as a whole and its supposed descent from prehominid species. But race is preeminently a subspecies phenomenon. Race (as opposed to species) formation and destruction can occur with great rapidity on the microevolutionary as opposed to the macroevolutionary time scale.
The microevolution/macroevolution distinction is important [...]
One of the most serious obstacles to a purely biological formulation of the doctrine of race is the fact that cross-breeding and contamination of the blood are not the only cause of the decline and decay of races. Races may equally degenerate and come to their end because of a process – so to speak [...]
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January 6, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged degeneration, Julius Evola, Traditionalism, war |
“Islamophobia” has made the news again. Thanks to Fitna—the anti-Islam film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders—the usual suspects are wringing their hands about “intolerance,” “xenophobia,” and “racism” directed at Muslim immigrants. Wilders is not alone in his disdain for the unimpeded Muslim migration into Europe and North America—from columnist Mark Steyn’s run-in with Ontario’s “Human [...]
When members of our pro-white community hear the word “culture,” many are wont to react in the way Hermann Göring allegedly did — by reaching for their revolver.
There is good reason for this. No concept in the twentieth century has so often been used to deny racial difference and relativize the white man’s values as [...]
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October 16, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged Arnold Gehlen, culture, Franz Boas, Michael O'Meara |
Anyone who has come to reject the rationalist myth of “progress” and the interpretation of history as an unbroken positive development of mankind will find himself gradually drawn towards the world-view that was common to all the great traditional cultures, and which had at its center the memory of a process of degeneration, slow obscuration, [...]
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October 12, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged aristocracy, decadence, degeneration, hierarchy, Julius Evola, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, religion, Traditionalism, warrior ethics |
From The Brussels Journal, August27, 2009
Contemporary popular culture is as jejune as contemporary politics: strangled by political correctness and by contempt for form and etiquette, it eats away like acid at what remains of courtesy and memory. But the past of popular culture – in literature and the movies – has much nourishment to offer. [...]
Men Among the Ruins:
Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist
by Julius Evola
Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2002
Baron Julius Evola (1899-1974) was an important Italian intellectual, although he despised the term. As poet and painter, he was the major Italian representative of Dadaism (1916-1922). Later he became the leading Italian exponent of the intellectually rigorous esotericism of [...]
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July 16, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged Benito Mussolini, book reviews, Christian Kopff, Christianity, decadence, egalitarianism, esotericism, fascism, Julius Evola, Men Among the Ruins, National Socialism, philosophy of history, René Guénon, Traditionalism |
Race, as has been shown, is not a unit of existence, but is an aspect of existence. Specifically it is the aspect of existence in which the relation of the human being to the great cosmic rhythms is revealed. It is thus the non-individual aspect of Life, whether it be the life of a plant, [...]
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July 1, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged decadence, egalitarianism, Francis Parker Yockey, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jews, life philosophy, mediocrity, Oswald Spengler, pacifism, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, sexuality, Zionism |
