/lit/ - Literature

>>15982487
That book was written 60 years ago by a journalist and has no merit at all by contemporary historians so I don't know why the fuck you would read Shirer, the swastika on the cover?

Read Guenon(pbuh) and you will have a clearer understanding

>>14653259
Those interested in Julius Evola, I highly recommend Guénon(pbuh)

Rene Guénon - The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times

>This book analyses the metaphysical roots of the crisis of this age, explaining the causes of the present condition to lie in modern civilization's rebellion against tradition -- not just one tradition, but the recurring and perennial tradition of every premodern civilization. The author's penetrating insight into modern science and the results of its monopoly over our age is fascinating. His critique of modernity is grounded in the traditional religious view which views human temporal existence not as an evolution, but a degression culminating in the "signs of the hour" and the emergence of the dajjal or the anti-christ (not necessarily understood in religious sense).

Rene Guénon - The Crisis of the Modern World
>Guenon begins by noting that the modern world has brought about a crisis, conceived by many in terms of apocalypse and the "end times" (the coming dark age of the Kali Yuga in terms of Hindu cyclical cosmology), which can only be resolved by a return of the West to the traditional outlook. Taking off from what he had written earlier in a book entitled _East and West_, Guenon notes that the worldviews of West and East are profoundly different from each other, the East maintaining its traditions, while the West creeps towards degeneracy in the form of modernism and materialism

Recommended reads for the Evola fanboys.