/lit/ - Literature

Damn /lit/ bros, I finally get all the Guenonposting now. This was probably the most insightful book I’ve read in the past 5 years.
The Degeneration of Coinage (Chapter 16), was straight up prophetic. Guenon talks about the trajectory of Western society through money. He begins with the origin of the coin as a sacred object made of a valuable material and covered with transcendent symbols. He follows the transformation of the coin – its loss of religious significance, its change from metal to paper, the idea of “inflation” – and then he predicts that eventually money will disappear altogether to be replaced by lists of numbers. Guenon was writing in the 1930’s and could not have known of electronic currency.

Also.. Fissures in the Great Wall chapter… ayyyyy