/lit/ - Literature

>>16961559
>what is the historical evidence that there was ever a sacred center
The many, many stone monuments to it, for a start. The motif of the center, associated with the sun, turns up again and again when we do have written records, in parallel with archeological remains which follow on from those that predate them.
>shared, common thoughts of everyday men
The meaning that matters here isn't person X's subjective sense of life satisfaction, it's their alignment with a meaning which exists beyond themselves whether they are conscious of it or not.
>What if - very prosaically - modernity is not better or worst than other society, but simply more vocal concerning its everyday distress?
Our society has more opportunities to express impulses in many areas which those in the past would have tried to master in themselves.
>>16961627
Evola wouldn't have considered being called derivative a criticism but a manifestation of a mistaken lust for novelty. If metaphyscial order is unchanging, there's no need to dazzle you with new interpretations of it.
>easily traceable in Plato
And in other things, like possible Vedic influence on the Greeks, prior influences on the Vedas, subsequent influence of Platonism on Christianity and Islam, etc.
>the fact that many sources agree on a given vision of the world is not proof by any means that that vision is true
Which is possibly why the priestly and aristocratic cultures of past epochs didn't wasnt their time trying to 'prove' it to the common man.
>(see: heliocentrism)
Further proof that Anaximander is corrupting the youth.
>Maybe I fail to see what the point of presenting these arguments is
I think for those taking an interest in them in the present day, the point is often that they form a map for practice and experience. They're not only arguments to be taken intellectually, but taken into the heart which, like the sun, is igneous, central, and perceives beyond words.