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What's /lit/'s opinion on Julius Evola's work? I've just started reading 'revolt against the modern world' and I'm somewhat confused by how the supernatural is taken for granted and a few other things.

I've just started browsing this board, I have only read a few books so far; please don't bully me ;_;

>> No.5107982

This is a leftist board, and there have been an influx of newfags from /pol/, reddit and other hells
Expect to be bullied

As for how the supernatural is taken for granted, understand that the man died in the 70's and grew during the time that Mussolini had to kowtow to the Pope and publicly renounce his atheism just to get anywhere politically in Italy

>> No.5108005

>>5107961
Rand-tier.
Dude was legit gargamel and knew it.
I find his starry eyed innocence kind of appealing in a weird way.

He serves as an excellent warning to liberal parents who let their kids take mushrooms and do yoga and shit.

>> No.5108006

>>5107982

I see, I appreciate your post.

Maybe I'll understand him better when I'm further in the book.

>> No.5108014

>>5107982
>This is a leftist board

This is a fair and balanced board.

>> No.5108027

>>5108014

Or at least it should be; I'd be in favour of it.

>> No.5108031

>>5107982
>As for how the supernatural is taken for granted, understand that the man died in the 70's and grew during the time that Mussolini had to kowtow to the Pope and publicly renounce his atheism just to get anywhere politically in Italy

Did the pope make Evola write a book on how to practice black magic, too?

>> No.5108053

>>5107961
Funny enough, just an hour ago I cancelled an order of Metaphysics of War from amazon. I didnt ordered it; strange business.

>> No.5108067

>>5108053

At last, I truely see. There is a supernatural world and it wants you to read Evola - this was the proof I needed.

>> No.5109316

>>5107961
His practical philosophy is great, but his metaphysics are too Indian to be considered seriously. He at the same time hates christianity(less in his latter period) but takes certain things like an apriori world from Plato who is proto-christianity.

>> No.5109321

>>5108014
>>5108027
It's a leftist board. I'm far-right, but it's rude and disruptive not to acknowledge your hosts and their board culture.
Right-wingers have basically ruined /int/ in the past half year to year

>> No.5109984

>>5107961
Nobody on /lit/ or /pol/ have actually ever read Evola, but they read on Wiki that he was a philosopher who wrote about cool shit like riding alegorical tigers and being a special snowflake in a broken world.

>> No.5110020

>>5109984

God, this.

>> No.5110046

>>5108005
>legit gargamel

I like the phrase, but what exactly do you mean?

>> No.5110048

>>5109321
>far right wanker

>> No.5110056

>>5109984
Yeah, this was me 3 years ago.

>> No.5110091

>>5109321
I bet I'm farther right than you, and I post here all the time. Most of us keep our politics to ourselves. It's a literature board. That's only polite.

>> No.5110103

>>5110091
I agree my far right friend.

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>>5110046

>> No.5110416

Not a big fan of the whole Fascist mysticism thing Julius Evola has going on. It is pretty amusing though.

>> No.5110544

>>5110416
>Fascist mysticism

I feel like this whole mysticism thing was adopted and expanded upon by fascist philos because they wanted to get laid with the equivalent of tumblr girls during their time.

>> No.5110573

>>5109984
I'm a leftist but I've read Evola. I was big into Eastern stuff for a while and went from his books on Hinduism and Buddhism to his books on politics and such. As a metaphysical thinker, he's quite interesting. And as much as I think right-wingers are dumb, Traditionalism does at least make some sort of sense to me.

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5110591

>>5109321
>being right winger
>being this beta

>> No.5110598

>>5110544
You don't think it's because both value inherited knowledge and tradition?

>> No.5110612

>>5110598
I think it's because fascists are dumb

>> No.5110809

>>5110091
you're definitely not farther right than me

>> No.5110933

>>5109316
I take Indian metaphysics seriously. >_>

>> No.5110961

>>5110544
Evola got BTFO from the press my catholic priests early on in his career, also he is a rumored virgin.

>> No.5110967

He's just like Jünger and Spengler, one of those right-wing hopeless romantics. They all proclaim a political program that's nearly identical to teenage Marxists who claim that 'communism works in theory'. Their philosophy is just the other side of the coin, but it's the same coin really.

It can be boiled down to the ridiculous notion that the world is falling apart and that the only thing that can save it is if everyone thought the same way. Their version just has 'tradition' as the solution for everything, whereas Marxists have 'equality' as the solution for everything.

It isn't surprising that it attracts the same crowd of deluded 20-something year olds

>> No.5110971

>>5110967
>'equality' as the solution for everything
>implying this faggot has even read Marx

>> No.5110972

>>5110967
>Jünger
No, fucking retard who I doubt has read any of their works.

>> No.5110974

>>5110967
It should be noted that feudalism and monarchy was tried and did bring good things.