1/ Instead of the traditional unification through particular bodies, orders, functional castes or classes, guilds—frameworks to which the individual felt an attachment, based on a supra-individual principle that informed his entire life, giving it a specific meaning & orientation
2/ —today’s associations are determined only by the material interests of individuals, united only on this basis, such as trade unions, professional organisations, parties. The formless state of the people, turned into mere masses, ensures that any possible order will necessarily
3/ have a centralistic and coercive character. The inevitable, centralising, overgrown structures of modern states, which increase their interventions and restrictions even when “democratic freedoms” are proclaimed,
4/ if on the one hand they hold off complete disorder, on the other they destroy whatever might still remain of organic bonds and unity. And this social standardization reaches its limit when openly totalitarian forms take over. #Evola
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