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"“America ... has created a ‘civilization’ that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of praxis and productivity; it has put the quest for profit, great industrial production, and mechanical, visible, and quantitative achievements over any other interest. It has generated a soulless greatness of a purely technological and collective nature, lacking any background of transcendence, inner light, and true spirituality. America has [built a society where] man becomes a mere instrument of production and material productivity...". Anyone have books that go over this?

>> No.16695011

well, what's the fucking quote from in any case? Why not read that?
Either way, America's transition from barbarism into decadence without ever really reaching civilization is well-known. Sort of a nil subject.

>> No.16695016

>>16695011
It's well known but what do we do about it is the question.

>> No.16695037

>>16695011
It's Evola, newfriend.

>> No.16695064

>>16695037
Didn't ask, new friend.

>> No.16695065
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>>16695016

What we do is to accept and embrace it for the correct attitude toward the world that it is.

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>>16695065
No thanks

>> No.16695074

>transcendence, inner light, and true spirituality
These are all figments of the imagination historically used for political purposes by leaders to maintain power and influence. See how civilizations guided by such figments were ripped apart so easily by events like the Reformation or the French Revolution.

>> No.16695086

>>16695074
The latter is not evidence for the former.

>> No.16695956

bump

>> No.16695969

>>16694970
>true spirituality
*sigh*
The faith in money and law is the same faith we place in religion. All the above words are doing is the same socialist gripe but finding the scapegoat in the US
>>16695037
>It’s Evola,
Typical.

>> No.16695975

OP you're better off just reading more spiritual/occult literature and making observations yourself. /lit/ is either too hylic or fraught with impotent intellectualism.

>> No.16696006

>>16695969
I know where you live

>> No.16696014

>>16695969
>The faith in money and law is the same faith we place in religion.
This isn't spirituality but I'm curious what your evidence for your claim would be anyways.

>All the above words are doing is the same socialist gripe
It sounds like it but every socialist society has done the exact opposite

>> No.16696041

>>16696014
It is the same blind faith even if their temples have slightly different objectives
Every “actually existing socialist” *Nation* has used Leninist ideals of scientific socialism and made a vanguard state. They think their needs to be such a period, so yeah, the exact opposite on purpose

>> No.16696045

>>16694970
>purely collective nature
is he referring to the composition of people as collective?
Americans are no more a collective than the beach is a collective of sand

>> No.16696046

>>16696041
>their
*there

>> No.16696065

>>16696041
>It is the same blind faith even if their temples have slightly different objectives
Spirituality is an idea. A way of being. Not anything more and it's not even the central idea of the paragraph.

>Every “actually existing socialist” *Nation* has used Leninist ideals of scientific socialism and made a vanguard state. They think their needs to be such a period, so yeah, the exact opposite on purpose
Catalonia? Rojava? Free Ukraine? Paris Commune?

>*Nation*
I said society

>> No.16696071

>>16695969
faith in all ideology is the same thing period, anarchy, capitalism and otherwise. we are animals trying to use logic to guide our lives, it will continue to fail

>> No.16696101

>>16696041
>>16695969
Sounds like you are just talking about abstractions in general butterfly. I think Hume has a great way of stating it in Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, the more easily read and less stiflingly academic of his work.

>> No.16696122

>>16695074
>french revolution ripped anything apart easily

>> No.16696155

>>16696065
Pardon. Surface-y reading. What he’s getting at is that the US is to blame for what capitalism has done. Soulless technology instead of church and aristocrat. Is that the opposite you mean?
Republican Spain hardly had the century it could have had to prove its “soul” of regular people’s solidarity. Something I’m sure he would have hated if he were to see it.
>I said society
I was just quoting the oft repeated “actually existing socialism” thing, sorry.

>>16696071
Not quite. The belief that the Constitution of the United States is some holy writ will often come before quite a lot of other beliefs for people

>>16696101
I’m just identifying his scapegoating.

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>>16696155
>Is that the opposite you mean?
Yes kinda
>Republican Spain hardly had the century it could have had to prove its “soul” of regular people’s solidarity.
No but we know they started off by burning churches and killing nuns.

>> No.16696352

>>16696318
>Picture of Catholics playing with their holy corpses
Nothing unusual there
There’s also a long history of church officials abusing the lower classes

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>>16696352
>There’s also a long history of church officials abusing the lower classes
What is this abuse and does this justify killing tens if not hundreds of thousands of priests, nuns, and monks? You just posting is the reason why I said socialists will never be on my side.

>> No.16696367

>>16696365
Fake

>> No.16696369

>>16696367
funny

>> No.16696386

>>16694970
According to Jung, the first half of the last Aion (platonic cycle) was ruled by the first fish of Pisces, Christ;
The second half would be ruled by Antichrist, coming to power in somewhere around the Renaissance.
This would be when the Europeans, after 1000 years of Christianity began to be fully empowered by the Antichrist and sent their Leviathan of ships out to conquer the world.
We have finally reached the peak of the Aion, and are looking for the Synthesis.
Interesting times.

>> No.16696460

scapegoating?

>> No.16696573

>>16694970
link? I'm a stickler for context.

>> No.16696581

Tell me what place this pieta currently occupies in our society.

>> No.16696634

>>16696581
Beauty

>> No.16696649

>>16694970
>bro America is like carthage bro
where's my writing award?

>> No.16696694

>>16695969
Shut the fuck up, trannyfly.