/lit/ - Literature

>>10403800
It’s a good book if you have traditionalist beliefs. He gets a bit weird and esoteric at times, but it’s Evola, so what else docyou expect? He wrote a book about sex magic.

>>10403800
Give it a read, you'll probably like it if you're an EthNat. Evola's not a stormweenie faggot, debatable if you could even call him a fascist. The book is about how to live with a traditionalist ethos in this modern world. Not a long read and probably the best introduction to Evola's work. Some psueds on /lit/ will hate on it because they think it's le poltard boogieman meme.

>>10403800
>philosophical
haven't read that one, but i don't think Evola wrote a lot of philosophy beyond some essays when he was young, according to traditionalists "traditional wisdom" or whatever you want to call it predates philosophy and is superior to philosophy as it uses supra-rational methods while philosophy can't see beyond the realm of the rational

whether you fall for this meme or not is your decision, but that's the standpoint of most traditionalist writers, so be careful and don't confuse them with modern "le IQ" right wingers

Traditionalists would do better to read Fr. Seraphim Rose daysue

Why was he so quickly and fervently chosen as the quintessential neoreactionary author?

>>10403868
>Afterward, Rose studied under Alan Watts at the American Academy of Asian Studies
is he some kind of normie meme like Watts?

>>10403869
because memes aside, it's a pleasure to read Evola, even if you don't take him seriously

>>10403868
>Seraphim Rose

>>10403870
Definitely not for normies. He has a nice lecture on living an orthodox life on YT though
Later in life he repudiated eastern philosophy

>>10403865
Great book (Guenon)

>>10403855
I read it recently and still don't know how I'm supposed to be a traditionalist other than believing in some vague idea of the sacred and trying to die in battle somehow

>>10403874
>memeposters

>>10403887
most people are just supposed to go with the times and follow normie degeneration, riding the tiger even if taken seriously is only supposed to be for an elite, that would shield themselves from modern degeneration to keep a connection with the traditional world, and would take command at the end of the kali yuga after collapse occurs and when the next cycle begins

that's if you take the cyclic view of time meme seriously, otherwise there's not much to take from Evola from a mainstream point of view

even then Evola in most of his books sort of seems to point to a possibility of regeneration through some sort of personal will, while other traditionalists like Guenon were more clear in that there's not anything to do or to solve, the cycle must end when it reaches the maximum evil and decadence and only from there regeneration is possible when the next cycle begins

>>10403800
If you start with this book, you'll have a hard time to understand everything.
I'd start with the Hermetic Tradition, then Revolt against the Modern World, then Men among Ruins and finally Ride the Tiger.
You can't ride the tiger if you don't understand why. And if you characterise yourself as an "ethno-nationalist" you probably don't.

>>10403800
It actually has an extremely good part about pro-adoption issues.

Basically it's trad to adopt children and raise them to be tiger riders.

Of course raising your wife's child from another man, does not count into this. Only children of friends or people you do not know.

>>10404001
why are adopted kids more powerful?

>>10404001
now that's a hot reading

>>10404003
Because they have to prove themselfs, like spartans. Also the kid and you both transcending biological reality is Trad, at least in the Kali Yuga. In the previous eras, there would be not kids left behind.