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The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetites. Those who remember alone have a sense of relatedness, but whoever has a sense of relatedness is in at least the first grade of philosophy. Henry Ford’s statement that history is bunk is a perfectly proper observation for a bourgeois industrialist, and it was followed with equal propriety by another: “Creeds must go.” Technology emancipates not only from memory but also from faith.

Because the political authority of the current ruling classes is based on the dismantling of medieval power structures such as feudal nobility, Church and guilds.

See: Dissolution of the Monasteries, Revolt in the Vendee, Carlist Wars.

>no Carlism

Why do you always forget the only strain of traditionalist/Reactionary thought that actually had real-life relevance?