/lit/ - Literature

>Here one should also blame the surrender and acquiescence of most men, who ought to have ridiculed this new jargon, along with many other recent 'achievements'. As for those women who, evidently ashamed of being women, encourage the application of this linguistic distortion, they should in a normal society be entrusted to specialists in diabolical hormonal manipulations, so that through adequate treatment they could be transformed into exponents of the 'third sex', thus fulfilling their aspirations on every level. However, to be fair, one wonders whether such treatment would not be appropriate also for men whenever the aforementioned acquiescence is due not so much to the subtle influences of the environment and to the unconscious processes that operate on the sub-intellectual part of the psyche of the ordinary man, but rather to an inability to react and to demonstrate true virility through moral courage and licid, resolute judgement.
You hear that, chuds? Even Evola says trannies masculine women should transition and beta boys should be injected with estrogen and turned into sissy gurls. And no, this is not a bunker meme. He flat out says it in pages 223-224 of The Bow and the Club. You can look it up yourselves if you don't believe me.

I got into Evola less for the meme of "le fascist intellectual" and more because I was interested in Perennialism, and I read Guenon before I read Evola. He most certainly had views of race that would be considered "non egalitarian" but he isn't some 1488 groyper tard, and most of his work isn't that race focused. Even his use of the term "Aryan" is more nuanced than le master race fantasy.

He is bad on Christianity as >>18796936 said, but not so bad that his work is unreadable for me. I think >>18797066 summarizes my feelings -- fucking on point about many things,, clearly wrong on others. Definitely takes a lot of things as given instead of proving them, but so did Guenon.

Back when alt right guys were starting to find Evola I was wondered what that was about -- then after reading him I'm convinced that many of them either didn't actually read him or didn't understand him (not that I really do either I guess). I think he's good for an interesting perspective on history, and for getting you into the space of mind of non modern people (similar to reading Eliade). Definitely worth reading I think.

>gay prot whining he can't push gay protestantism to muslims

Only Islam as Tradition can destroy these demonic and depraved mentally ill freak hylics. Only the masculine principle of determination can impose the divine order of the forms and renew a society against time. ahem, ting ting ting

FUCK modernity and post-modernist sophists

I’ve shared this on lit before and you spergs couldn’t help but namedrop this board. This guy’s got a ton of cool unique shit; lots of Muslim stuff but also the full set of Guenon and basically everything Evola has in English.

https://youtu.be/s0SqYVBIJ4g

>>16493123
Reminder that a westerner can call themselves a Buddhist without any hint of larp or memery since Buddhism is not caste based.
Reminder that if you aren’t born in the Indian caste system calling yourself a Hindu is pure larp and you will never be a real Hindu. You can follow Advaita Vedanta or study Kashmir Shaivism but to refer to yourself as a Hindu when your white or black or any non Indian ethnicity is mega mega cringe.

>>16446285
If it isn’t a dumb bait thread I agree with >>16446413, it’s too hard for a novice reader. Bk shouldn’t be your first dosto, the Tolstoy and Ulysses will make you detest reading. Nietzsche is fun but you need an understanding of mythology (and maybe Schopenhauer ) to understand The Birth of Tragedy.

Keep the Homer, and pick up some of the following
>Siddharta
>The Hobbit or LOTR
>Plato’s Apology, Symposium, and Euthyphro
>The Hero with a Thousand faces
>A sci fi novel of your choice (could go dune since it’ll be culturally relevant in the next year, or Neuromancer if you like drugs or cyberpunk aesthetic)

Read these and get a feel for your taste. Don’t fall for lit memes

>>16417448
>Conserv-a-shits

>Not Reactionary

Because his spiteful peabrained anti-spiritual anti-strength anti-hierarchal anti-culture anti-nature anti-science anti-magic anti-esoteric anti-discussion anti-thinking followers have convinced me not to.

We know about things by way of the distinctions amongst those things. Basing our perceived existence and destiny on an abstraction that forcefully denies all other routes and explanations to the truth is the ultimate thing which separates us from God, and thereby the Grandfather of Marxism and destructive ideology.

You don't go around to all the various distinct cultures on earth and angrily destroy their unique ladders to the divine and then claim you helped them find God. You've thereby severed religion and state and fractured the sacred and ancient cultural foundations they worked upon since they first dawned as a people. The collective is now by default governed by more atheistic principles than the ones they had developed before because they could never fully adopt "Christian culture" even if it made sense which it doesn't. The other horrible side effect of this is that as the sciences progress naturally and healthily they challenge your retarded dogmatic abstraction which you call a truth and you make yourself and other religious people seem retarded. You then get ostracized and actively diminished in a world where science and states are centuries or even millennia detached from any notions of God or Religiosity that could have made sense. Then you are left with your Godless world, your uncharitable, spiritually decadent mulatto tranny hellscape devoid of meaning.

Nietzsche was right, God is dead, and the Christians killed him. And now their "greatest ally" the Jews are delivering the final and ugliest blows of spiritual decay.

>hurr durr but the Jews hate Christianity

Jews can hate Christianity all they want but what they fear more than people becoming Christian is if half of the planet were to rediscover their (direct or indirect)Pagan roots and to see the spark of true divine inspiration rise up and return mankind to his natural state of great power, piercing consciousness and boldly meaningful endeavors and existence that firmly erase human anguish from existence.

Christianity is objectively a low hanging fruit end times religion. If you're so retarded that the only spiritual path you can manage is that God ultimately loves everything and placeboing yourself into thinking he'll coddle you for eternity then fine but don't expect any higher ways of life or solutions to emerge from such selfish idiocy and defeatist cowardice.

>>16393723
Democratic "knowledge"

You asked for it. I can be as dumb as I want and still cast my post

>>16391264
I'm reposting my Barnes and Noble story, this happened two weeks ago:

>be me get recs for interesting authors and books here, download PDFs and listen to audio books and even get some from Amazon
>get fairy well versed in Philosophy and am generally now able to enjoy reading since government schooling ruined that for me by forcefeeding me horribly uninteresting garbage.
>decide to drop my barnes & noble, haven't been there since I was a kid
>as I'm driving up to to the parking lot for a place to park see "BLACK LIVES MATTER!" in writing on the back of some shitty SUV takes my attention and disgust
>slam on my breaks
>almost hit an old woman cause I was distracted
>roll down my window and apologize
>park
>get out of my car
>halfway to the entrance and I realize I forgot my mask and they'll freak out and call the cops if I don't have it
>get mask
>lets try this again
>see some disgusting faggot with a scarf, glasses and a latte walking up to the entrance
>enter
>it's all women
>not a single male
>look at books surrounding me
>all complete trash
>expecting some sort of Philosophy or history section
>nothing but poppy garbage from the last five years
>quickly stroll through the aisles looking for a decent section
>literally all garbage
>find "religion"
>"living under jihad"
>"the diary of anne frank"
>"how Judaism built america"
>"st Augustine's life lessons"
>"anne of green gables"
>"Hitler's religion: twisted beliefs of the third reich"
>"pride and prejudice"
>nope out and try again
>get to the back
>are you fucking kidding me
>an entire kids toy section decked out with legos and everything
>start backing away
>turn around
>AN ENTIRE FUCKING WALL OF FUNKO POP DOLLS THIRTY FEET LONG
>AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
>make straight for the exit
>apparently they have some cafe where faggots can drink their lattes
>get to my car
>open /lit/ to calm myself, browse for 10 minutes
>go get some bacon and fill up gas
>go home.

Holy shit, I thought reading was supposed to make people smart and appeal to smart people. Is this really the best our society can do in the name of books and literature?

>>16374596
GOOD

>>16128445
I read three Nietzsche books and as far as critiquing modernity and it's lifelessness it all made sense until I read some Evola and recognized that Higher values are the single most profound and powerful ideas in all ontology and that life would be shit for everyone and everything without them be it dunce or genius. Abstract Ideas and computing itself being so incomprehensibly profound in the animal kingdom that it gives us a very special place. Nietzsche had his higher values in the superman ideal. You're gonna need them one way or another. If you wanna critique the current system or any system go ahead but life will be meaningless barren torture without some sort of value attributed to something. Nietzsche even has value in his "overcoming". Imagine if someone confronted Nietzsche after he felt great for overcoming something and told him he needed to reassess his values and that his accomplishment wasn't actually an accomplishment it was a completely valueless experience. So ya know what, sticking to nature isn't actually such a fucking bad idea cause it just makes the most raw and tangible sense out of any idea.

Also Stoicism never meant denial of suffering, and stoic philosophy would work the same whether you pretended there was no suffering after you accomplished something or said yes there was suffering but it was worth it. It basically boils down to "life is shit and hurts just get over it" which everyone is going to have a different way of managing and the stoics had various methods of approaching.

Nietzsche has no decent critique of stoicism and I don't think critiquing stoicism was even a notable thought in his head. The videos that introduced this Nietzsche vs Stoicism thing are completely retarded.

>>16121029
Nice try schlomo,

That can all be true and it doesn't remove
-The Talmud (Sneaky evil money race handguide)
-Jewish Ritual Murder
-Revelations (sneaky satanic money race causing the end times)
-The Vedas (sneaky evil money race causing the end times)
-The Mahabharata (sneaky evil money race causing the end times)
-Global conspiratorial behaviour in and around WWII
-Fabricating WWII in such a way that sneaky evil money race would control the narrative and make humanities next battle a battle of economics (muh capitalism vs muh communism) rather than systems of hierarchal governance, traditional ideology and religiosity, Racial brotherhood, and spirituality.
-Making it illegal to question anything about WWII or the period
-CLEAR JEWISH OVERREPRESENTATION IN MEDIA FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT
-CLEAR conspiracy and promotion of the terrorist Zionist state of israel
-CLEAR accordance in the EU and western countries to follow the Kalergi plan and racial and cultural marxism to make Westerners into a slave mudrace to serve the antichrist in jizzrael

>>16102522
Anything Marxist since Marxists and Republicans and Libertarians are all the same satanic scum who undermine the divine hierarchal nature of man.

>read Evola
>realize there’s no modern movements worth fighting for
So what now?

>>15944333
>recover
It can’t be helped. Just sit back and enjoy the show.

Threadly reminder that the world ended in 1789.

You can cope by reading Guénonshit all you want, but modernity won, Tradition is dead and there's absolutely no escape.

>>15928513
The world ended in 1789.

>"The significance of all the crises of recent times can be summarized as follows: A man wanted to be free, for whom a life of freedom could spell only ruin. To say "God is dead" is only an emotional way of stating the basic fact of the epoch. But Nietzsche himself remarks that having "kiilled God, wasn't that perhaps rather too grand of us? Shouldn't we become gods in order to be worthy of it?" After recognizing that "nothing exists, all is permitted," and the "freeedom of the spirit," the inevitable consequence is the challenge: "Now prove the nobility of your nature.""

>"A famous passage of Zarathustra gives the most pregnant formulation to the essence of the crisis, " You call yourself free? Let me hear your ruling thoughts, and not that you have escaped bondage. Are you one who deserved to escape from it? There are many who threw away their only worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? Why should Zarathustra care? Your eyes should answer plainly: free for what?"

>"And Zarathustra warns that it will be terrible to be alone, without any laws from above oneself, alone with one's own freedom in a desert place and an icy air, judge and avenger of one's own law. For him who only acquires any worth by serving, for him who had in his bonds not a cause of paralysis but of support, solitude appears as a curse; he loses courage and his initial pride deflates. These are the sentiments, continues Zarathustra, that then assail the free man,and that will not fail to kill him if he does not kill them first. In precise terms, and from a higher point of view, this is the essential ground of modern man's unhappiness."

>"This impulse has now been realized, inasmuch as the working class has entered the consumer system, being assured of a lifestyle that is no longer proletarian but bourgeois: the very thing whos absence was the incentive for revolution. But alongside this convergence there has become visible the conditioning power of one and the same "system," manifesting as the tendency to destroy all the higher values of life and personality. At the level more or less corresponding to the "last man" foreseen by Nietzsche, the individual in contemporary consumer society reckons that it would be too expensive, indeed absurd, to do without the comfort and well-being that this evolved society offers him, merely for the sake of an abstract freedom. Thus he accepts with a good grace all the leveling conditionings of the system, This realization has caused a bypassing of revolutionary Marxism, now deprived of its original motive force, in favor of a "global protest" against the system. This movement, however, also lacks any higher peinciple: it is irrational, anarchic, and instinctive in character. For want of anything else, it calls on the abject minorities of outsiders, on the excluded and rejected, sometimes even on the Third World (in which case Marxist fantasies reappear) and on the blacks, as being the only revolutionary potential. But it stands under the sign of nothingness: it is a hysterical "revolution of the void and the underground", of "maddened wasps trapped in a glass jar, who throw themselves frenetically against the walls." In all of this it confirms in another way the general nihilistic character of the epoch, and indeed on a much larger scale, for the current protest is no longer that of the individuals and small groups mentioned earlier, whose intellectual level was indubitably higher."

>"We shall now examine the principle of "riding the tiger" as applied to the external world and the total environment. Its significance can be stated as follows: When a cycle of civlization is reaching its end, it is difficult to achieve anything by resisting it and by directly opposing the forces in motion. The current is too strong; one would be overwhelmed. The essential thing is not to let oneself be impressed by the omnipotence and apparent triumph of the forces of the epoch. These forces, devoid of connection with any higher principle, are in fact on a short chain. One should not become fixated on the present and on things at hand, but keep in view the conditions that may come about in the future. Thus the principle to follow could be that of letting the forces and processes of this epoch take their own course, while keeping oneself firm and ready to intervene when "the tiger, which cannot leap on the person riding it, is tired of running." The Christian injunction "Resist not evil" may have a similar meaning, if taken in a very particular way. One abandons direct action and retreats to a more internal position."