/lit/ - Literature

>>15229557
"This aspiration to void politics is obviously a Utopia — and a particularly dangerous Utopia. Man lives in society, and there is no society that can live without politics. As an activity, variable in form but invariable in essence, at the service of practical organization and the cohesion of society, politics is derived from humanity's elementary sociability.

The essence of politics includes three presuppositions: the relationship of command and obedience, which determines order, the relationship of public and private, which determines opinion, and the relationship of friend and enemy, which determines struggle. It is the way it mobilizes these presuppositions, especially the first and third, that the essence of politics prompts the radical hostility of those who refuse to accept that relations of authority — not necessarily despotic! — necessarily derive from human diversity, to the point, moreover, that acts of resistance and refusal can only have meaning with regard to the factual givens of obedience and command. A society without politics would be a society without order (this would be anarchy, the prelude to the overcompensation provided by dictatorship), opinion (this would be the most total absence of liberty imaginable), or struggle (this would be death). Hence the now classic definition provided by Freund: politics is the "social activity that proposes to guarantee by force, generally based on law, the exterior security and interior concord of a particular political unit by ensuring order in the midst of all the struggles that are born from the diversity and divergence of opinions and self-interests.""

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-Alain De Benoist, On Being a Pagan

>>10935612

it's really stupid don't fuck with it

and this is not reverse psychology

I really mean that

some things are meant to be untouched so that you can uphold certain mystique (if this is the path you are interested in)

he's still going to read it.