/lit/ - Literature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jkp_A6udso

Is this the fascism thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jkp_A6udso

>>22999393

Books alone can't save you. You will just end up turning books into another zoomer hobby and whiling away the rest of your life. You need to make sincere commitments to things bigger than yourself and then experience the pain and happiness of suffering for those things and eventually mastering them. It's still the beginning of a new year. Get your GED or finish high school via correspondence credits by the end of the year, learn to drive by the end of the year, quit all merely hedonistic drugs (weed/alcohol), and read one literary fiction and one canonical nonfiction book per week (or every two weeks if you're a fag), and start dressing and acting right and taking care of yourself.

If you don't the first two by the end of the year, you are hopeless and will never succeed at anything and might as well accept that you're one of the background characters of life, just trying to work the bare minimum to get a little fast food and junk media to consume. If you haven't managed to stay on the wagon of the other tasks by summer, same thing, you are hopeless. These are all easy tasks. Now that you've had this realization, you will basically decide this year who you're going to be for the rest of your life.

Do something to make it real, swear an oath that you will eat shit and get FAG tattooed on your forehead if you don't succeed. If you want to be a pussy, you can also add in a reward factor, like you're allowed to make some significant vanity purchase if you manage to succeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vow1qFOTmEw

https://counter-currents.com/2012/11/two-volumes-by-gottfried-feder/

https://counter-currents.com/2011/08/breaking-the-bondage-of-interesta-right-answer-to-usury-part-4/

>>22870200
>>22865993
based kant

>>22585445
Is this copypasta/satire?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vow1qFOTmEw

>>22446281
Read Payot, Education of the Will and Eliade on Yoga

Start doing transcendental meditation immediately, just do the method and pick a neutral mantra instead of trying to be epic. Use Acem which is literally TM that doesn't charge the stupid fee, or Benson's Relaxation Response which is an even more neutral version of it. Do it for 90 days to see results. It teaches you how to meditate.

If you want a long slow task make it a useful one. Write out Greek, Latin, or Sanskrit morphology until you memorize it.

Fascism is good

The biggest problem with BAPfags is that most of them end up "apolitical" gymcel zoomer faggots. You have to supplement BAP with "self-improvement literature" of a different sort (pic related) and avoid being depoliticized at all costs. There are a lot of thinktanks out there that want you to read things like this, Peter Thiel, and that dumb NRx shit, and think you're superior to flyover plebs. Instead, learn how to speak to the flyover plebs and survive the "great politics" (the part of Nietzsche completely missed by these witting or unwitting depoliticizers) to come. Individualism is a disease, and all mere individuals will be absorbed or crushed by the great political organisms that are coming. Those organisms can be headless Chinese or techno-finance mercenary armies or they can be ethnostates grounded in wisdom traditions. Which one of these outcomes comes to fruition will depend on the demographic presently being attracted to BAP type literature. That's why it is so important not to read it one-sidedly and not to become a mere faggot gymcel living in a dying world.

>>21608162
see >>21597314

>It is annoying to see the degeneration suffered in today's speech by a word so inspiring as "nobility." For, by coming to mean for many people hereditary "noble blood," it is changed into something similar to common rights, into a static, passive quality which is received and transmitted, something inert. But the strict sense, the etymon of the word nobility, is essentially dynamic.

>>21372932
Based

>>20447036
Next you're going to start telling me about how I shouldn't listen to that commercial rap, I should listen to the GOOD rap that YOU know about.

>>20446562
>Spengler asserts that democracy is simply the political weapon of money, and the media are the means through which money operates a democratic political system. The thorough penetration of money's power throughout a society is yet another marker of the shift from Culture to Civilization.

>Democracy and plutocracy are equivalent in Spengler's argument. The "tragic comedy of the world-improvers and freedom-teachers" is that they are simply assisting money to be more effective. The principles of equality, natural rights, universal suffrage, and freedom of the press are all disguises for class war (the bourgeois against the aristocracy). Freedom, to Spengler, is a negative concept, simply entailing the repudiation of any tradition. In reality, freedom of the press requires money, and entails ownership, thus serving money at the end. Suffrage involves electioneering, in which the donations rule the day. The ideologies espoused by candidates, whether Socialism or Liberalism, are set in motion by, and ultimately serve, only money. "Free" press does not spread free opinion—it generates opinion, Spengler maintains.

>Spengler admits that in his era money has already won, in the form of democracy. But in destroying the old elements of the Culture, it prepares the way for the rise of a new and overpowering figure: the Caesar. Before such a leader, money collapses, and in the Imperial Age the politics of money fades away.

>As soon as the election process becomes organized by political leaders, to the extent that money allows, the vote ceases to be truly significant. It is no more than a recorded opinion of the masses on the organizations of government over which they possess no positive influence whatsoever.

>Spengler notes that the greater the concentration of wealth in individuals, the more the fight for political power revolves around questions of money. One cannot even call this corruption or degeneracy, because this is in fact the necessary end of mature democratic systems.

>On the subject of the press, Spengler is equally contemptuous. Instead of conversations between men, the press and the "electrical news-service keep the waking-consciousness of whole people and continents under a deafening drum-fire of theses, catchwords, standpoints, scenes, feelings, day by day and year by year." Through the media, money is turned into force—the more spent, the more intense its influence.

>The only force which can counter money, in Spengler's estimation, is blood.

>>19544849
Thanks for the reminder of how these people, who live among us and want us to submit to their de facto cultural and political control through de jure "equality," really see us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqbUqW_V70Y

Hahaha that rules, just used the search function on twitter to find trannies crying about it

Guenon's Crisis of the Modern World and others, anything by Evola, Gasset, Eliade

>As today his surroundings do not so force him, the eternal mass-man, true to his character, ceases to appeal to any authority other than himself, and feels himself lord of his own existence. Conversely the select man, the excellent man is urged by interior necessity to appeal to some standard beyond himself, superior to himself, into whose service he freely enters. ... Contrary to what is usually thought, it is the man of excellence, not the common man who lives in essential servitude. Life has no savour for him unless he makes it consist in service to something transcendent. Hence he does not look upon the necessity of serving as an oppression. When, by chance, such necessity is lacking, he grows restless and invents some new standard, more difficult, more exigent, with which to coerce himself. This is life lived as a discipline — the noble life.

>Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us — by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. "To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law" (Goethe). The privileges of nobility are not in their origin concessions or favours; on the contrary, they are conquests. And their maintenance supposes, in principle, that the privileged individual is capable of reconquering them, at any moment, if it were necessary, and if anyone were to dispute them. ... It is annoying to see the degeneration suffered in today's speech by a word so inspiring as "nobility." For, by coming to mean for many people hereditary "noble blood," it is changed into something similar to common rights, into a static, passive quality which is received and transmitted, something inert. But the strict sense, the etymon of the word nobility, is essentially dynamic. Noble means the "well known," that is, known by everyone, famous, he who has made himself known by excelling the anonymous mass.

>As one advances in life, one realises more and more that the majority of men — and of women — are incapable of any other effort than that strictly imposed on them as a reaction to external compulsion. And for that reason, those few individuals we come across who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out isolated, monumentalised, so to speak, in our experience. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training. Training = askesis. These are the ascetics.

>>17875989
Also Gasset's Revolt of the Masses (the English translation is not great so forgive its Engrish-y feel sometimes)

Or Tuttle's The Crowd is Untruth

Order begins within you. If you want to help the world to discover its internal order again, discover order within yourself through work.

Oppose disorder in yourself, promote order. Excuses are the most dangerous thing of all, because the only person you're cheating is yourself. You are accustoming yourself to being cheated. You are lowering your own expectations for yourself.

Don't start tomorrow, start today. Why? Because of some mathematical calculation of the utility of the extra day? No, just because you don't want to. The disorder in you doesn't want you to start today. It wants you to always find an easy road, to always settle to the bottom of any crisis or situation by remaining mushy and fluid. "Be radical, have principles, be absolute, be that which the bourgeoisie calls an extremist: give yourself without counting or calculating, don't accept what they call 'the reality of life' but act in such a way that you won't be accepted by that kind of 'life', never abandon the principle of struggle."

The more you work on yourself, the more of yourself will emerge. The more of yourself emerges, the more other people can use you as a beacon to orient themselves in a confused and decayed world. When well-ordered people get together, order is created.

Just as the more you work, the more you will know how to discover and implement order, bad people are experts in disorder. They know how to use subtle, simple principles of disorder to introduce rot and decay into existing systems, to corrupt people and countries. Nothing is accidental, not debt slavery, not the chemical neutering of the pharmaceutical industry, not consumerism and hedonism, not the promotion of "free love." Your instincts are right: it isn't this bad by accident. Your instincts are right: evil exists. You're allowed to resist evil.

Gottfried's The Conservative Movement is good and short. It will introduce you to the postwar "traditionalist" and libertarian right that coalesced around Buckley's National Review, and the eventual death of this movement when it was replaced by scheming neo-liberal neo-conservatives. Read either Gottfried or Buchanan on the Buchanan presidential campaign and last hurrah of the paleo-conservative movement in the late '80s and early '90s. From there read Samuel T. Francis, another colleague of Gottfried and Buchanan and often called the leading intellectual of American conservatism (not counting neo-conservatism, which is a business front aligned with the same shit in the Democrat party too). "Beautiful Losers" is a good book, then read his posthumously published magnum opus, Leviathan and Its Enemies. The latter is basically the blueprint for the Trump movement and conservative attempts to use populism to overthrow the managerial technocracy that disguises itself as neo-liberalism and progressivism.

For the European right, read Armin Mohler's Conservative Revolution in Germany, and for a representative of this movement, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's Germany's Third Empire, recently published by Arktos with a foreword by Alain de Benoist. Any writings of Benoist on the Nouvelle Droite will also be good. He recently had a published debate with Tamir Bar-On, author of "Where Have All the Fascists Gone?"

Read this:
https://www.counter-currents.com/2011/08/breaking-the-bondage-of-interest-a-right-answer-to-usury-part-1/
https://www.counter-currents.com/2011/08/breaking-the-bondage-of-interesta-right-answer-to-usury-part-2/
https://www.counter-currents.com/2011/08/breaking-the-bondage-of-interest-a-right-answer-to-usury-part/
https://www.counter-currents.com/2011/08/breaking-the-bondage-of-interesta-right-answer-to-usury-part-4/

And these:
https://www.counter-currents.com/2012/11/two-volumes-by-gottfried-feder/
https://www.counter-currents.com/2016/04/understanding-hitler-and-the-third-reich/

Read Evola's 11 Points of Orientation:
http://gornahoor.net/?p=4428
and
https://www.counter-currents.com/2013/03/the-tools-of-the-occult-war/

Unironically Evola and fascism.