/lit/ - Literature

>I'm not a fascist, I'm a super fascist.
How did he get away?

Why are all right wing philosophers just massive memes?

>The tyrannical man is the mirror image of the philosopher: he is not the ruler of his aspirations and desires, he is a man possessed by love madness, the slave of its aspirations and desires, rather than their ruler.
>Some tyrannical souls become rules of cities and nations, and when they do entire peoples are subjugated by the rulers’ erotic madness. But such tyrants are rare and their grip on power is weak. There is another, more common class of tyrannical soul that Socrates considers, those who enter public life not as rulers, but as teachers, orators, poets—what today we would call intellectuals. […] Like Dionysius, this kind of intellectual is passionate about the life of the mind, but unlike the philosopher he cannot master that passion; he dives headlong into political discussion, writing books, giving speeches, offering advice in a frenzy of activity that barely masks his incompetence and irresponsibility. Such men consider themselves to be independent minds, when the truth is that they are a herd driven by their inner demons and thirsty for the approval of a fickle public.
>As we read their works today and struggle to comprehend their actions, we need to get beyond our inner revulsion and confront the deeper internal forces at work in the philotyrannical mind—and, potentially, our own. The ideologies of the twentieth century appealed to the vanity and raw ambition of certain intellectuals, but they also appealed, slyly and dishonestly, to the sense of justice and hatred of despotism that thinking itself seems to instil in us, and which, unmastered, can literally possess us. To those possessed, appeals to moderation and scepticism will appear cowardly and weak […]

How old were you when you realised you had a tyrannical soul and your reading and writing habits were solely an expression of that raging restlessness?

Was he white?

Hey y’all,
I’ve had Revolt Against the Modern World for a while now, and never got around to reading it until today. I find it somewhat hard to follow in places, is there a specific way I should read this, or is my brain just too smooth?

Bump

What do I need to read before diving into this guy? I've read some of "The Mystery of the Grail", and it has me intrigued a lot, but I want to know if there's anything I need to read beforehand - whether it be essential or non-essential.

>>14995266
The only way to be productive for me is to daydream about my writing during work
It's fulfilling in 3 ways
It makes work more fun and less tedious
It makes me feel like I'm taking full advantage of my time
It makes me more focused on my free time afterwards because I already have a headstart and don't start from scratch because I'm already building on my mental (and phone) notes

>>14944132
Citrine for the main god ala Zeus/Odin, to symbolize his solar/olympian qualities. Amethyst for his wife, symbolizing her lunar/priestly qualities.

>tfw addicted to audiobooks because I don't have an ebook reader and it's comfy to go on long walks while listening to stuff

On a semi related note, which books of Julius Evola should I read and in what order?

How much of traditionalism is in essence an idealization of a time from the past that really didn't exist?
What are some books to get started on traditionalism?

Is it because he is superior in every way?

>Evola's books are published by a Zionist Jew named Ehud Sperling

What is their endgame here, to spur divisiveness and ignite a war?

>>14603110
evola but only let her in on the spiritual stuff and convert her later on.

So did Evola have any headmates? I know he actually was really interested in the hinduist traditions. A similarity between leftist idententarians (hippies, sjws), and right identtentarians ( fascists) is their emphasis on the subjective. So with this in mind in specific, so did Evola ever write anything about Tulpas/headmates?

Could someone explain what "Aryan" means? I'm having a difficult time understanding the concept beyond the idea of a genetic race of people. Clearly the term as Evola uses it has a spiritual/metaphysical meaning, but I'm too much of a brainlet to understand.

Why did he put the warrior castes above the priestly castes? Was he fucking retarded?

>>14366525
here is a picture of evola

>eats own sperm

Holy shit. Has anyone who recommends him actually read him? He's fucking retarded

Has anyone else come close to him?