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Julius Evola

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Jan 8

1/ Just as there is a physical and biological heredity, there is also a psychic and spiritual one, which in traditional societies justified the principle of exclusion and caste that seems so intolerable to the demagogy and individualism of our day.

2/ Just as an animal does not become domesticated at a stroke, thus aristocratic tradition only won its effective and objective value through the slow and steady acquisition, conservation, and preservation of subtle dispositions on the basis of an influence from above,

3/ passed down from one generation to another. Hence bearing an illustrious name and its heraldic arms also meant possessing, as a psychophysical and subtle preformation, the virtual heredity of special forms of interest, sensibility, and instinct.

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Julius Evola

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Oct 25, 2021

1/ For thousands of years racism has been active in the gentile nobility of every people, and even in its highest form, insofar as it has maintained its adherence to the idea of tradition and avoided materializing in the form of a kind of zoology.

2/ Before the concept of race was generalized, as it has been in current times, having race was always synonymous with aristocracy. The qualities of race always signified the qualities of the elite, and referred not to gifts of genius, of culture or of intellect,

3/ but essentially to character and to style of life. They stood in opposition to the quality of the common man because they appeared, to a large degree, innate: either one has the qualities of race or one does not have them. They cannot be created, built, improvised or learned.

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Julius Evola

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Oct 25, 2021

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,

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Julius Evola

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Jul 20, 2021

1/ Totalitarianism merely represents the counterfeited image of the organic ideal. It is a system in which unity is imposed from the outside, not on the basis of the intrinsic force of a common idea and an authority that is naturally acknowledged, but rather through direct forms

2/ of intervention and control, exercised by a power that is exclusively and materially political, imposing itself as the ultimate reason for the system. Moreover, in totalitarianism we usually find a tendency toward uniformity and intolerance for any partial form of autonomy

3/ and any degree of freedom, for any intermediate body between the center & the periphery, between the peak & the bottom of the social pyramid. More specifically, totalitarianism engenders a kind of sclerosis, or a monstrous hypertrophy of the entire bureaucratic-administrative

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Julius Evola

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Jul 8, 2021

1/ Such hierarchy may decay and be ruined only in one case: when the individual decays, when he uses his fundamental liberty to say no to the spirit, to deprive his life of any higher point of reference and set himself up as a stump. Contacts are then fatally interrupted,

2/ the metaphysical tension which united the traditional organism and made of the political process the counterpart of a process of elevation and of integration of the individual loosens, any force becomes unsteady in its orbit, and, finally, after the vain attempt to substitute

3/ the lost tradition for rationalist interpretations and utilitarian processes, frees itself from it: the heights remain pure and intact, but the rest, which was beforehand as it were suspended from them,

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Julius Evola

@Daily_Evola

May 14, 2021

1/ Metternich saw all the most essential points: that revolutions are not spontaneous outbursts or mass phenomena, but rather artificial phenomena that are provoked by forces that have the same function in the healthy body of people & states that bacteria have in the generation

2/ of diseases in the human body; that nationalism, as it emerged in his own day & age, was only the mask of revolution; that revolution was essentially an international event & that the individual revolutionary phenomena are only localized and partial manifestations of the same

3/ subversive current of global proportions. Metternich also saw very clearly the concatenation of the various degrees of revolution; liberalism and constitutionalism unavoidably pave the way for democracy, which in turn paves the way for socialism,

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