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>>15263757
>"western values" of family units, parenthood, monogamy, gender codes, alliances
That's sounds like the values of all societies that have ever existed in any part of the world.

It really is troubling how well this post-60s social Marxist neo-liberalism has lent itself so well to creating more exploitable workers and drones by separating them from the ways we would normally congregate and socialize.

This coupled with the tech overlords that stand for nothing, who have segregated all of our normal social physical interactions into apps based on algorithms and even more severe popularity contests, allow capitalism to completely decimate any sort of threat to its own machinations.

How can one hope to have a revolution when the millennials and gen z kids have been made essentially autistic in their brainwashed thirst for literality and anti-social tendencies.

>>15263757
>>Ah yes all these "western values" of family units, parenthood, monogamy, gender codes, alliances and filliations are bourgeoisie and only exist to repress and support the capitalist machine, we most be done with them if we want "emancipation" from the desires capitalism make us want to. Anyone else disagreeing with me is a neurotic oedipal monster that cant save himself and must be stopped.
How times have changed! Now degeneracy is there to support the capitalist machine and Western values are considered reactionary.

>>15263757
>family units,
Not in America where parents kick their children out at 18 and kids put their parents in retirement homes as soon as possible

It is not at all real justice — the distributive justice of suum cuique based on a principle of
inequality, as already defended by writers beginning with Aristotle and Cicero. Rather, it is a
partisan pseudo-justice, exclusively serving the interests of the lowest strata, the so-called
‘working class’, to the detriment of other classes, in the name of myths whose only purpose is to
gradually pave the way for the rise to power of Leftist forces.

This extremely organised, systematic, and almost unrestrainable action from below is often
associated with the Rousseauesque he that the natural, healthy, generous man is only to be found
among the lower classes, and hence that the ultimate aim of the subversive movement is a new
and effective ‘humanism’. There is almost no one capable of countering this action with a
vigorous reaction. Besides, the principle of reaction ought to consist of this: the possibility to
denounce the fallacies, defects, and degeneration of a system — for instance, the possibility of
taking a hard stance against the bourgeoisie and a certain kind of capitalism — starting from a
level that is situated above rather than below it, in the name not of petty socialist or proletarian
values, but of qualitative, aristocratic, and spiritual ones.

…

An even more significant case, which reveals the vast field of action of this tendency, is
constituted by psychoanalysis and modern irrationalism. The starting point has been the (in itself
legitimate) criticism of blind devotion to ‘reason’ and abstract intelligence, of the superstructures
of the conscious Ego. But this has then led to a downward rather than upward opening of man.
Against ‘rationalism’, mere irrationality and ‘life’ have been upheld; against the conscious, the
unconscious, which has come to be regarded as the only real driving force of the psyche. Here
too, then, the result has been a regression, a downward shift of man’s centre of gravity. The
cause is much the same as that which has been described in relation to the sociopolitical field: the
assumption that beyond the ‘rational’ and its possible abuses one only finds the sub-rational (the
unconscious, vital, instinctual, etc.) — and not the super-rational as well, as witnessed by
anything that has ever been associated with true human greatness in the history of civilisation.

The age we find ourselves living in clearly suggest what our primary watchword should be:
to rise again, to be inwardly reborn, to create a new order and uprightness within ourselves.
Those who harbour illusions about the possibility of a purely political struggle and the power of
this or that formula or system, with no new human quality as its exact counterpart, have learned
no lessons from the past.

We find ourselves in a world of ruins — we should not forget this. And just how much may
still be saved depends only on the existence or lack of men who are still capable of standing
among these ruins, not in order to dictate any formulas, but to serve as exemplars; not by
pandering to demagogy and the materialism of the masses, but in such a way as to reawaken
different fonns of sensibility and interest.

Not letting oneself go is what is crucial today. In this society gone astray, one must be
capable of the luxury of having a character. One ought to be such that, even before being
recognised as the champion of a political idea, one will display a certain conduct of life, an inner
coherence, and a style consisting of uprightness and intellectual courage in every human
relationship. All this, in a straightforward manner, with no exhibitionism, big words, or
puritanical attitudes. To the impudent ‘why bother?’ of others, let us clearly and staunchly reply:
‘ We cannot act otherwise — this is our life.’ If anything truly positive, like a new order, is ever
to be attained, it will not be through the craftiness of democratic agitators and petty politicians,
but through the natural prestige and recognition of men — of yesterday and even more so of the
new generation — who are capable of as much and can vouch for their ideal.

Uprightness, however, implies adequate knowledge. Young people in particular must become
aware of the intoxication which has spread across a whole generation through the many
concurrent fonns of a false view of life, and which has disintegrated this generation and deprived
it of the inner strength to defend itself at the very moment it needed it the most. In one form or
another, these poisons continue to operate within contemporary culture, science, sociology, and
literature: these breeding grounds of infection must be identified and vanquished. Most
prominent among them are Darwinism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and existentialism. These
ideologies convey the same degrading influence, the same attack against true man.

>>15263798
>How can one hope to have a revolution
You cant, and even if one happens in a global scale and we switch into a collectivist local commune style socities i would argue that you'd see a throwback to some sort of old social coding like it happened with the kibbutz

Against Marxism and socialism, let us affirm that the economy and economic interests in all
their forms have always exercised — and always will exercise — a subordinate function in
nonnal humanity; that history and every healthy sociopolitical structure are determined by forces
of a different sort; and that the fundamental fallacy is to believe that material, environmental factors and conditions of affluence, wealth, or poverty play a decisive role for real human progress.

Against psychoanalysis, let us uphold the ideal of a personality which does not relinquish its
role; an aware and autonomous personality which retains its sovereignty over the nocturnal and
subterranean part of its soul and the demon of sexuality — a personality that is neither
‘repressed’ nor psychotically split, but which attains a healthy balance of all its faculties by
subordinating them to a higher meaning of life and action.

Finally, at the basis of existentialism, one must only acknowledge the truth of a fragmented
human being, who has come to identity existence itself with its lowest and most irrational levels,
with its darkest and most senseless expressions, wallowing in a sort of self-sadism. Against all
this, let us clearly perceive that ‘existence’ is not the last resort, that existence actually only
reaches fulfilment in those who cast their gaze beyond it, those who are capable of subordinating
mere living to something more than living.

Such are the lines of overcoming, which ought not to be intellectual and dialectic, but
experienced first-hand, and realised in their direct significance for one’s inner life and conduct. It
is impossible to rise as long as we remain under the influence of such false and deviant ways of
thinking. Once free from the poison, we can attain clarity, uprightness, and real strength. Let us
repeat this: inner action must precede all other action. Let this especially be perceived by those
youths who retain a spark within themselves, so that they may pick up the torch from those who
have not yet fallen.

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