/lit/ - Literature

>tfw can't bear to hear the truth I’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools

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>It is doubtless true that the masses have always been led in one way or another, and it could be said that their part in history consists primarily in allowing themselves to be led, since they represent a predominantly passive element, a materia in the Aristotelian sense of the word; but in order to lead them today it is sufficient to possess oneself of purely material means, taking the word matter this time in its ordinary sense, and this clearly shows to what depths the present age has sunk; and at the same time these same masses are made to believe that they are not being led, but that they are acting spontaneously and governing themselves, and the fact that they believe this to be true gives an idea of the extent of their unintelligence.
>We have entered indeed the final phase of Kali-yuga, the darkest period of this «dark age», this state of dissolution from which we cannot escape but through a cataclysm, since it is not about a simple straightening that would be necessary, but about a total renovation. Disorder and confusion [the Great Disarray] reign in all the areas; they have reached a point which surpasses by far all that we have seen until now, and … threaten to invade the entire world … it seems to be the sign of the most serious crisis encountered by humanity in the present cycle.
What are we supposed to do individually according to Guénon and Evola?