The intuition of these ideas have operated throughout my life. I have to admit, I have been at times all too infected by the weakness of our times. The collapse of all around me has awakened me to that which transcends myself. Better late than never...I hope.
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It is very sad to learn that Evola's thoughts in 1950 largely correspond to the world we live in right now - but absolutely excellently explained by MM.
@@roberto6536 The world's most important challenge is not the topic of anti-Semitism - although some people believe that it is the most important issue for all other people in the world.
@@tommyandersson5878 Evola supported and justified the deportation and extermination of Jews operated by nazist and fascist regimes and their wars of aggression, and he was an enthusiast teorician of race and racism. It's important to remember evrything about an ideologist as Evola or you have only an agiography and that is not intellectually correct. (you could see online the photos of Evola with Hitler and Mussolini).
@@roberto6536 You at least get acquainted with his theories of the race ... Evola was not a supporter of biological racism, and did not say anything against the Jews and did not write anything. (I am familiar with many of his works) He even refused to become the editor of the fascist newspaper, and he refused directly to Mussolini's face with the words "I'm not a fascist duche." The fact that he was denied because of the right -wing views this does not make a person a fascist and anti -Semite. P.S. I apologize in advance if it is written with errors, I write through the translator)
These vids are awesome, thanks for your impartial exploration of a fascinating thinker. Do you have plans to survey authors on the far-left as well? It would be very interesting to see these two ends of the spectrum come into contact
Thanks for your comment. Yes, I'd like to. I have done a video on Agamben's reading of Derrida but otherwise not many on leftist thinkers. In my book Beginning with Heidegger, I have chapters on Rorty and Derrida. Currently I'm reading Cornel West's book on American pragmatism, etc.
thanks bro. I wish you had been one of my professors, or even HS teachers 50 years ago when this might have done me some good. You are doing the Lord's work.
@HalideHelix If my comments deserve "shade" by all means cast it. Few people from my era are in the comments threads, and I tend to adopt (to adapt) the speech mannerisms of my group. I use the argot "ironically," making myself seem clever in my own eyes. Peace.
I'm 52, so probably just a decade or so behind you, but I wish to God Almighty I'd had a teacher like Mr. Millerman back when I was a high-schooler/college undergraduate in the late 80s and early 90s. My whole life would've been spent very differently, for sure.
@@personanongrata7976I respect the hell out of older people that are into these topics. You have some wisdom to draw on, a lot of us younger guys are just angry and that's why we started reading obscure fringe ideas to find answers. At least I did and I look to older people to keep me in check, if that makes sense.
Great video, as a layman who has actually read Revolt Against Modern World and Ride the Tiger the philosophy required reading was a little much for me, this was a great way to approach it for...let's say..."lowest common denominator" type thinking to be polite lol
Once at an alt right gathering, a guy who was a student majoring in Philosophy told me it took him up to 15 mins. per page to read Heidegger, taking notes in the process. Definitely not for everybody. Evola is much more accessible to the average mind.
@@Frennemydistinction If the average schlub spent just half the time he wastes watching sportsball on real self-improvement, well perhaps the prognosis for the West wouldn't look so bad.
I've read modern philosophy so I understood Ride the Tiger. Revolt Against the Modern World referenced so much ancient mythsand symbolism it was difficult for me to follow since I'm not as familiar with it
One thing I like about Michael's presentations besides his clarity is that he does not impose prejudices in his deliveries from either the Right or the Left.
I find that too. I don't sense an axe to grind. HIs thinking and the people he's bringing to the fore are good at separating the wheat from the chaff so it may seem as if he's imposing prejudices, but he's just bringing clarity.
Before I moved to writing on my website, I used to also make videos on Evola, and I am very glad you continue to produce such high-quality summaries of his work. Seeing a scholarly RUclips video is a rare, but welcomed sight.
Evola basically described the actual history of Taliban freedom fighters. they have put honor and dignity above slavery and comfort, spiritual Truth (Islam) over falsehood (hedonistic liberalism and corrupted democracy), rule of the religious warrior class instead of bureaucratic church-like clergy. today we know, no empire, no matter how powerful it may seem, cannot break the spirit of strong Men with strong faith in Truth
The timing was perfect for me to put this up as a comment on Stephen J Delaney substack on his article calling on Christians and Pagans in Ireland to come together in resisting against the government and it's destruction of the country and it's people. Thanks I think this talk will help.
For whatever reason, Evola has been coming up in my feed again. I got a cursory explanation awhile ago but I came away not seeing much value in his viewpoint or ideas. This was certainly a clearer explanation than I got before but even with that, his philosophy still seems pretty simplistic. In a nutshell, I feel like he's playing make-a-wish. "Let's all be heroic and united under the guidance of an honest elite leadership then everything would be better!" I mean ... sure ... but after that does he just throw up his hands and says "ok, go do it everyone!". I can almost feel the disorganized murmuring of the assembled crowd puzzling over such vagaries until someone asks if there will be cake and coffee, then people start to go home. His thoughts don't seem to be based on any evidence, just a nebulous feeling about how something "ought to be". (A good example of this is his coming out against Darwinism of all things which almost seems to me apropos of nothing. Does he actually seriously challenge it's findings anywhere? I'd be somewhat curious to know if he actually does.) Anyway, as a beginner maybe I'll learn more about him with time but so far, I'm less than impressed. Very good video on explaining him to the uninitiated, though, keep it up Michael!
I totally agree with you on the "throwing up of hands" part. I'm 2/3rd of the way thru the video and still waiting for concrete organisational directions. On the rejection of Darwinism, Psychoanalysis and Existentialism, I understood it differently (I don't know Evola, this is just my view). I thought he was saying "Get back in lane / in your compartment". I can't believe that a Evola would reject fossils going back 3.5 billion years, and Hominin fossils going back 2 million years. I'm guessing that what he meant was that you can have your biological evolution, but it stays as biology. There's no reason for us being a product of evolution, changing our life philosophy. That's like saying an AI computer should have a certain view of itself because it was made by humans. These 2 fields need to be disconnected. We are where we are with a conscious mind and a powerful conceptual intelligence. We use that to define our life philosophy. How we got those intellectual tools is not relevant! Similar comments apply to psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is a tool which can be used to treat different emotional problems, and it's efficacy can be kind of tested. But it stays in that box. Evola is rejecting the idea of getting your car fixed in the garage, then asking the mechanic to come home and advise you how to live your life.
If a master class has ever been presented on the essence of Evolas work, this is it. Transcendence indeed! ---------- " Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me, with mind intent on Me, and without desire for gain and free from egoism and lethargy - fight" Bhagavad-Gita
Evola's critique of Catholicism was written nearly two decades before the restructure of the Church under Vatican 2. He saw then what it has taken us quite some time to recognize with regard to the degradation & diffusion of the Church. Oddly enough, I stumbled into Evola's work after reading a Mr. T Kaczynski.
27:11 As much as I admire Evola and humble myself before his cultured erudition, I insist that he fails to appreciate the first doctrine of the Catholic faith: the sin of Adam. Men cannot achieve Evola's vision without this appreciation, i.e. without being Catholic. And as history now plainly shows, not even then.
I never read Evola, but the introduction you gave, while I can agree with most of it, presents a notion that frightens me (it was Hitler's motto and was now refurbished by the totalitarian EU): "The common good, above the individual good" - it reduces humans to bees in a hive and, somehow, contradicts other points presented. I would need time to dig further into this.
@LittleDolfie They have more than you think. The Brussels midwife is a nazi, from a nazi family and NATO's main puppet is also from a distinct nazi family. There's a long nazi tradition in European "values".
The problem with the EU is that it looks for uniformity based on economics instead of a unity based on spiritual values. Evola is talking about something like Christendom, the Caliphate, and Imperial Japan.
I was just thinking that Evola's ideas for a good society look like warrior-monk Templar-like order + Valhalla when you read it. He's a lot like Nietzsche if I understood correctly. The only problem with his ideas is that we're long past the stage when our most effective weapons were swords and spears.
That was really great. Explained well, flowed from start to finish. Intertwined quotes well with expository. Solid A, gold star, what have you. Evola is smart; you too. I am less. The second best main bad guy in the Final Fantasy series is Kefka from #3/6j. It was popular, you may have played it. When you read the quote about Reactionary not being a strong enough word, I imagined Kefka pushing the statues apart; just to shatter the world. And I imagined a funny scene with post-modern philosophers generating word salad the whole time.
Heard of Cameron MacGregor (Men in the City)? Venn Diagram overlapping going on. What you’re presenting seems like floorboard material for some of his output . Terrific!
Thank you for bringing Evola to my attention. I, regrettably, never heard of him prior to this video, yet his words describe perfectly the modern societal devastation we are all witness to. I look forward to reading his works.
Much of this remains abstract for me. I see the philosophical side of this, but I don't see a political or social action plan here. IOW where does the rubber hit the road? Is this to be just a personal philosohical approach to the world that I carry in my head? What am I to DO with this?
I already though of most of the things he said, i feel like what he says is the logical conclusion of a traditionalist worlview. I find myself in complete agreement with him from theese videos.
I like this Evola and think I understand what he was trying to do, but what a task, essentially resurrecting God (mainly the Christian one). I'm not a Christian but do like the communities they build and can happily live there. I think it's possible to keep the Christianity culture and dogma for the sake of preserving a working society even without the faith in God. The Japanese largely succeeded in doing this with Shinto. But here in the West, if our rules don't tie to a deity, we just cant seem to figure out what to do next.
I prefer books but sometimes PDF is all you have, and some people prefer the convenience of an ebook (not me). Whatever works for you, whatever you have available.
A neglectedly discussed aspect of information processing is eye movement. The eyes when reading a book scan from left to right, which aids attention and information retention; while on a screen the eyes "zoom out" and stare at a block with very little scanning at all. The long term consequences of this more recent development are not yet known, but it is safe to say at the least that there is a physical difference between the two.
The pick and choose approach to history of Evola, Guenon and alikes has the opposite effect of what they think they do: Instead of returning to a traditional reality or instating a truly heroic life they accelerate into post-modernist uncertainty. They try to obscure the contradiction between tradition and new order with vague spirituality or mysticism. That's why the supposedly eternal transcendent truths they carve out always differ. They nominally reject LARPers but actually produce them via their post-modern view on history. Because of theese kind of writings people skip between all kinds of religions, combine and mix ideas and in the course of that loose themselves in (mostly consumerist) estranged self-expression. If you have been on social media, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Evolas argument talks traditionalist but acts liberal.
Evola's utilitarian endorsement of religion, which seems it might even favor it as a necessary fiction, would not please most any Christian today, what with their highly specific doctrinal arguments and the logically important nature of said specificity with relation to the function of religion as civilization's only hope, through objective morality. Atheists have forced them to become more sophisticated, and so now they arrive at a point where Evola's religion, completely uninterested in theology, eschatology, and the particulars of salvation, seems like it would insult them.
No, that is more like what would Guenon and Schuon think, Evola saw everything ready to decline. Some religions and nations may took longer but they will fall. Also Sufism is just about barely Islam, like Nizari.
At 8:00 - christ drew the clear paradigm of individual epiphany and redemption, free of pharasee/tribal interference and corruption. Evola loves the Roman church at the expense of Christ's universal promise. Facists and communists hate an individual's personal communion with God equally - there's no earthly power to take advantage of in it.
Perhaps ironically, Evola was the most influential non-Catholic author in me beginning to practise the Catholic Faith. I know in his earlier writings he took issue with the Church in much deeper ways, but his criticism here can be answered by the internal logic of the Catholic worldview, which holds that the three-fold unity of the Church in Faith, Sacraments, and Government is hierarchical: the latter two exist for the sake of the former, which means to exercise authority in the Church you must adhere to the entirety of Catholic dogma. I also see his criticisms of the Axis as pretty armchair-y. Nonetheless this piece is a great criticism of our world, its myths, and narratives.
@WhiteBaronn I'm not clear on what you're asking. Are you asking 'why is the Church not solving anything,' or 'why did you join the Church when it's not solving anything'?
Yes, it reminds me of how Father Seraphim Rose began his journey toward Orthodoxy when he discovered Rene Guenon, who he ended up strongly disagreeing with theologically, but deeply respected for his insightful critique of modernity.
In regards to point 11, wouldn't an athiest (who does not believe an afterlife) be considered more heroic than the religious if they put their life at risk in the same manner that religious people do? The athiest has no hope for a heaven to drive him, unlike the religious, and they would be putting at risk the only thing that they consider to be valuable, which is being alive in this life.
Nietzsche journey went through abyss and tragedy - but beyond all of that; its the human physiological-psychological-psychic-spiritual-cultural mode - tragedy/comedy, suffering and moments of glory. The monotheistic abrahamism attempts to subvert (project and scapegoat) and avoid tragedy.
I wonder how Evola would have responded to Bowlby and attachment theory, which for me synthesizes Darwinism, psychoanalysis and existentialism within a framework that is illuminating for personal development. Such a framework was nascent in 1950 but would soon be given its classic articulation in Bowlby’s great trilogy (Attachment, Separation, Loss). I can certainly imagine being fed up c.1950 with a parochial Darwinism that cynically bestializes human striving, with a psychosexual Freudianism privileging the basal instincts, and a postwar literary existentialism devoid of human affirmation. But an evolutionary-behavioral theory of the instincts, together with object relations and Heidegger’s phenomenology of Dasein might constitute a less malign troika - at least allowing us to more fully comprehend how man actually is alongside how we want him to be.
You have to start with the fact that by “tradition” Evola means his crazy idea that all culture comes from an ancient and unknown civilization in the extreme north, near the arctic circle. He doesn’t mean anything like “how we’ve been living in the Levant for thousands of years.” It’s a completely hopeless notion.
Evola says in revolt, if something is true it’s always been true, it can’t be new. The tradition he’s talking about is the tradition of true virtue, it’s very Platonic. I don’t agree with the ancient north aspect of his work either but his idea of tradition isn’t specific to that, at least the way I read it.
@@ccmetalhead It’s exactly what I just said. When Evola says “tradition,” he doesn’t mean what de Maistre or Chesterton mean. He means his speculative reconstruction of the ancient origins of civilization.
If you want to live in a world that is not a democracy, you can try Afghanistan. There they worry about "higher issues" and no lowly issues like having a good life and not dying at 30.
@MaryC-co8fm It's very tempting to believe that, but I think it would be confusing cause and effect. We are in the last phase of Western civilization. That's the cause. Feminism/materialism/collectivism/atheism/feminization are the effect.
The myth of the noble spirit, the great myth of aristocratic rule by self assumed betters. One size does NOT fit all - those who wear the shoes know where they pinch.
If the objective is to become heroic in the true sense of the word then that heroic struggle extends to all walks of life including the ecclesiastical. Evola wasn’t a Christian - he was an esoteric - yet his observations, insofar as they apply to a means of restoring manful tradition in the West, must apply to the Church as well. Want to save society? You need to save the church - it’s spiritual basis - as well. The reason it is in dire straits is the same reason everything else is - the mass of men has been funnelled into a small sector of the professions, where excellence is still possible - an imitation of heroic struggle - in pursuit of wealth and as such the life blood of every other part of the body politic is absent.
At 12:30 - never in the history of the world have we had a system based on rank and command, from Claudius to hitler, that didnt amount to meuling neurotics and subpar intelligences, and never has "spirtual racism" not amounted to simple racism among cultures. The dream of human hierarchy as "good" is a more sulfurous wind egg than an acceptance of multi-dimensional human potential.
if people think things are bad right now they should have tried being in the Eastern areas of England in the times of the Saxon and Danish invasions and wars etc... we have so many good ipportunities and freedoms and protections these days.. yes it's not perfect but we can fine tune that
Julius Evola is such a postmodern new ager pretending to be traditional. He didn’t get married, no children, no community, no hierarchical obedience to a liturgical order, no understanding of humility and service to one’s community, and most importantly no wisdom concerning love. He is entertaining though!
He was wrong about psychoanalysis. No one goes to analysis to become more disturbed, more disorganized, and if it is the case, it’s only transitory. Only by investigating the internal antagonism can it be transformed into a sense of destiny.
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The intuition of these ideas have operated throughout my life. I have to admit, I have been at times all too infected by the weakness of our times. The collapse of all around me has awakened me to that which transcends myself. Better late than never...I hope.
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Something that helps me: "every saint had a past and every sinner has a future"
@@northstar92 Yes indeed!
Seek the grail brother.
Hierarchy, quality, eugenism
Fascinating!
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I see what you did there
Fascis-naiting
Jesus Christ is the son of god.
@@FranceIsPropertyofEngland no he's not!
10/10 Evola is one of the most misunderstood philosophers. You're doing God's work. Keep it up !
If Evola is 10, where is Codreanu?
@@drummersagainstitk What did you think of his book? Any thoughts in general about it?
Comparatively few are going to know much about Codreanu. He’s a very uniquely Romanian right winger.
@@adriantepesut a martyr
Explaining Evola is doing God's work? 👌
You don't condemn or romanticize. But you are straightforward, clear and articulate. This was really good!
Brilliant, thank you for giving voice to this most important contemporary thinker.
It is very sad to learn that Evola's thoughts in 1950 largely correspond to the world we live in right now - but absolutely excellently explained by MM.
Included antisemitism...
@@roberto6536 The world's most important challenge is not the topic of anti-Semitism - although some people believe that it is the most important issue for all other people in the world.
@@tommyandersson5878 Evola supported and justified the deportation and extermination of Jews operated by nazist and fascist regimes and their wars of aggression, and he was an enthusiast teorician of race and racism. It's important to remember evrything about an ideologist as Evola or you have only an agiography and that is not intellectually correct. (you could see online the photos of
Evola with Hitler and Mussolini).
@@roberto6536 shalom rabbi
@@roberto6536 You at least get acquainted with his theories of the race ... Evola was not a supporter of biological racism, and did not say anything against the Jews and did not write anything. (I am familiar with many of his works) He even refused to become the editor of the fascist newspaper, and he refused directly to Mussolini's face with the words "I'm not a fascist duche." The fact that he was denied because of the right -wing views this does not make a person a fascist and anti -Semite.
P.S. I apologize in advance if it is written with errors, I write through the translator)
You have a real knack for making complex/esoteric political philosophy accessible to the layperson!
These vids are awesome, thanks for your impartial exploration of a fascinating thinker. Do you have plans to survey authors on the far-left as well? It would be very interesting to see these two ends of the spectrum come into contact
Thanks for your comment. Yes, I'd like to. I have done a video on Agamben's reading of Derrida but otherwise not many on leftist thinkers. In my book Beginning with Heidegger, I have chapters on Rorty and Derrida. Currently I'm reading Cornel West's book on American pragmatism, etc.
Love your videos on Evola and Dugin!
thanks bro. I wish you had been one of my professors, or even HS teachers 50 years ago when this might have done me some good. You are doing the Lord's work.
@HalideHelix If my comments deserve "shade" by all means cast it. Few people from my era are in the comments threads, and I tend to adopt (to adapt) the speech mannerisms of my group. I use the argot "ironically," making myself seem clever in my own eyes. Peace.
I'm 52, so probably just a decade or so behind you, but I wish to God Almighty I'd had a teacher like Mr. Millerman back when I was a high-schooler/college undergraduate in the late 80s and early 90s. My whole life would've been spent very differently, for sure.
@@personanongrata7976I respect the hell out of older people that are into these topics. You have some wisdom to draw on, a lot of us younger guys are just angry and that's why we started reading obscure fringe ideas to find answers. At least I did and I look to older people to keep me in check, if that makes sense.
Great video, as a layman who has actually read Revolt Against Modern World and Ride the Tiger the philosophy required reading was a little much for me, this was a great way to approach it for...let's say..."lowest common denominator" type thinking to be polite lol
Books like that require multiple reads.
Once at an alt right gathering, a guy who was a student majoring in Philosophy told me it took him up to 15 mins. per page to read Heidegger, taking notes in the process. Definitely not for everybody. Evola is much more accessible to the average mind.
@@Frennemydistinction If the average schlub spent just half the time he wastes watching sportsball on real self-improvement, well perhaps the prognosis for the West wouldn't look so bad.
@LittleDolfie dont worry bro i own most his stuff physically
I've read modern philosophy so I understood Ride the Tiger.
Revolt Against the Modern World referenced so much ancient mythsand symbolism it was difficult for me to follow since I'm not as familiar with it
One thing I like about Michael's presentations besides his clarity is that he does not impose prejudices in his deliveries from either the Right or the Left.
It seems he has a very big prejudice in favor of the extreme Right. Actually he removed all the 'dark' aspect of Evola's ideas.
I find that too. I don't sense an axe to grind. HIs thinking and the people he's bringing to the fore are good at separating the wheat from the chaff so it may seem as if he's imposing prejudices, but he's just bringing clarity.
3 in and I already love this!!! The world is suffering from weak men!!!
Before I moved to writing on my website, I used to also make videos on Evola, and I am very glad you continue to produce such high-quality summaries of his work. Seeing a scholarly RUclips video is a rare, but welcomed sight.
Evola basically described the actual history of Taliban freedom fighters. they have put honor and dignity above slavery and comfort, spiritual Truth (Islam) over falsehood (hedonistic liberalism and corrupted democracy), rule of the religious warrior class instead of bureaucratic church-like clergy.
today we know, no empire, no matter how powerful it may seem, cannot break the spirit of strong Men with strong faith in Truth
The timing was perfect for me to put this up as a comment on Stephen J Delaney substack on his article calling on Christians and Pagans in Ireland to come together in resisting against the government and it's destruction of the country and it's people. Thanks I think this talk will help.
Evola really sounds like Platos 'lion' if it had become trancesendant. Really captivating.
What's Plato's lion?
@@diegomunoz-ml5yu yes, what is it ?
For whatever reason, Evola has been coming up in my feed again. I got a cursory explanation awhile ago but I came away not seeing much value in his viewpoint or ideas. This was certainly a clearer explanation than I got before but even with that, his philosophy still seems pretty simplistic. In a nutshell, I feel like he's playing make-a-wish. "Let's all be heroic and united under the guidance of an honest elite leadership then everything would be better!" I mean ... sure ... but after that does he just throw up his hands and says "ok, go do it everyone!". I can almost feel the disorganized murmuring of the assembled crowd puzzling over such vagaries until someone asks if there will be cake and coffee, then people start to go home. His thoughts don't seem to be based on any evidence, just a nebulous feeling about how something "ought to be". (A good example of this is his coming out against Darwinism of all things which almost seems to me apropos of nothing. Does he actually seriously challenge it's findings anywhere? I'd be somewhat curious to know if he actually does.) Anyway, as a beginner maybe I'll learn more about him with time but so far, I'm less than impressed. Very good video on explaining him to the uninitiated, though, keep it up Michael!
I totally agree with you on the "throwing up of hands" part. I'm 2/3rd of the way thru the video and still waiting for concrete organisational directions.
On the rejection of Darwinism, Psychoanalysis and Existentialism, I understood it differently (I don't know Evola, this is just my view).
I thought he was saying "Get back in lane / in your compartment". I can't believe that a Evola would reject fossils going back 3.5 billion years, and Hominin fossils going back 2 million years. I'm guessing that what he meant was that you can have your biological evolution, but it stays as biology. There's no reason for us being a product of evolution, changing our life philosophy. That's like saying an AI computer should have a certain view of itself because it was made by humans. These 2 fields need to be disconnected. We are where we are with a conscious mind and a powerful conceptual intelligence. We use that to define our life philosophy. How we got those intellectual tools is not relevant!
Similar comments apply to psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is a tool which can be used to treat different emotional problems, and it's efficacy can be kind of tested. But it stays in that box. Evola is rejecting the idea of getting your car fixed in the garage, then asking the mechanic to come home and advise you how to live your life.
I like his thoughts distinguishing the spirit from religion. Thank you for the summary
In today's backward world, we need Evola more than ever.
If a master class has ever been presented on the essence of Evolas work, this is it. Transcendence indeed!
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" Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me, with mind intent on Me, and without desire for gain and free from egoism and lethargy - fight"
Bhagavad-Gita
Enjoyed your presentation of Evola. I never heard of him before. Great man!. Thank you😊
Evola's critique of Catholicism was written nearly two decades before the restructure of the Church under Vatican 2. He saw then what it has taken us quite some time to recognize with regard to the degradation & diffusion of the Church.
Oddly enough, I stumbled into Evola's work after reading a Mr. T Kaczynski.
Very inspiring work. Lucidly presented. I look forward to consuming more of your work.
Spectacularly good ,clear teaching. Authoritative and integrity, objectivity shine through.
Excellent
Glad you liked it!
27:11 As much as I admire Evola and humble myself before his cultured erudition, I insist that he fails to appreciate the first doctrine of the Catholic faith: the sin of Adam.
Men cannot achieve Evola's vision without this appreciation, i.e. without being Catholic. And as history now plainly shows, not even then.
Thanks!
Oh this is going to be great
I never read Evola, but the introduction you gave, while I can agree with most of it, presents a notion that frightens me (it was Hitler's motto and was now refurbished by the totalitarian EU): "The common good, above the individual good" - it reduces humans to bees in a hive and, somehow, contradicts other points presented. I would need time to dig further into this.
Okay, but where has prioritizing "the individual good" for at least the last 80 years gotten the West?
@@thadtuiol1717 Not prioritizing - just let the individuals alone.
@LittleDolfie They have more than you think. The Brussels midwife is a nazi, from a nazi family and NATO's main puppet is also from a distinct nazi family. There's a long nazi tradition in European "values".
The problem with the EU is that it looks for uniformity based on economics instead of a unity based on spiritual values. Evola is talking about something like Christendom, the Caliphate, and Imperial Japan.
Listening to his Revolt Against The Modern World right now. Super good.
It saddens me I’m just discovering this guy at 40.
It refers to you, then, a young person. As someone from my country once said: "The one, who believes in a idea, is forever 20 years old"
Thank you for your wonderful presentation of his 11 Points! I look forward to more Evola videos in the future!
Fantastic video Michael. You always have a way of making these ideas more digestible.
Instant thumbs up. I'll listen tomorrow.
Incredible content. Wonderfully precise.
I was just thinking that Evola's ideas for a good society look like warrior-monk Templar-like order + Valhalla when you read it. He's a lot like Nietzsche if I understood correctly. The only problem with his ideas is that we're long past the stage when our most effective weapons were swords and spears.
I would love to hear you do Yukio Mishima's philosophy!
Love from Greece!
Evola seems like one of those philosophers that wrote to convert rather than convince. I can't say I'm converted but I can certainly see the appeal.
Great to see you covering this fascinating anti-liberal author
Awesome job , as usual Mr MM . ty
Excellent work as ever sir
Thank you
That was really great. Explained well, flowed from start to finish. Intertwined quotes well with expository. Solid A, gold star, what have you. Evola is smart; you too. I am less. The second best main bad guy in the Final Fantasy series is Kefka from #3/6j. It was popular, you may have played it. When you read the quote about Reactionary not being a strong enough word, I imagined Kefka pushing the statues apart; just to shatter the world. And I imagined a funny scene with post-modern philosophers generating word salad the whole time.
Thank you! You explain things very clearly.
Please do a video about Uncle Ted.
Ted nugget?I agree
I agree with all the positive comments. The presentation aligns very well with my own thinking.
Heard of Cameron MacGregor (Men in the City)?
Venn Diagram overlapping going on. What you’re presenting seems like floorboard material for some of his output .
Terrific!
Thank you for bringing Evola to my attention. I, regrettably, never heard of him prior to this video, yet his words describe perfectly the modern societal devastation we are all witness to. I look forward to reading his works.
Much of this remains abstract for me. I see the philosophical side of this, but I don't see a political or social action plan here. IOW where does the rubber hit the road? Is this to be just a personal philosohical approach to the world that I carry in my head? What am I to DO with this?
Coco Chanel instantly popped into my mind as a female model of Evola’s traditional man. Read her biography, you will see.
This is just an excerpt but I think you can see there is an analogy to be made
johnshaplin.blogspot.com/2020/11/chanel-and-reverdy-by-edmonde.html
It was born male lol
Excellent. Thank you
I already though of most of the things he said, i feel like what he says is the logical conclusion of a traditionalist worlview. I find myself in complete agreement with him from theese videos.
Michael consider adding subtitles for us not native speakers
I like this Evola and think I understand what he was trying to do, but what a task, essentially resurrecting God (mainly the Christian one). I'm not a Christian but do like the communities they build and can happily live there. I think it's possible to keep the Christianity culture and dogma for the sake of preserving a working society even without the faith in God. The Japanese largely succeeded in doing this with Shinto. But here in the West, if our rules don't tie to a deity, we just cant seem to figure out what to do next.
Lots of gold here
Fascinating. Nietzsche without the skepticism. Don't be too quick to write off blood and soil.
Who is John Galt?
Thank you for introducing me to this philosopher. Very interesting concepts. Some similarities to Ayn Rand.
A character in Ayn Rand's writings.
Thoughts on reading books in print vs pdf format through a screen? Thanks.
I prefer books but sometimes PDF is all you have, and some people prefer the convenience of an ebook (not me). Whatever works for you, whatever you have available.
A neglectedly discussed aspect of information processing is eye movement. The eyes when reading a book scan from left to right, which aids attention and information retention; while on a screen the eyes "zoom out" and stare at a block with very little scanning at all. The long term consequences of this more recent development are not yet known, but it is safe to say at the least that there is a physical difference between the two.
The pick and choose approach to history of Evola, Guenon and alikes has the opposite effect of what they think they do: Instead of returning to a traditional reality or instating a truly heroic life they accelerate into post-modernist uncertainty. They try to obscure the contradiction between tradition and new order with vague spirituality or mysticism. That's why the supposedly eternal transcendent truths they carve out always differ.
They nominally reject LARPers but actually produce them via their post-modern view on history. Because of theese kind of writings people skip between all kinds of religions, combine and mix ideas and in the course of that loose themselves in (mostly consumerist) estranged self-expression. If you have been on social media, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.
Evolas argument talks traditionalist but acts liberal.
finally, an accurate criticism! i always say Evola is a postmodern new-ager pretending to be traditional. thanks for your insightful comment
“A complex unity in the process of decline.” Powerful
I also wrote another one called I AM THE SPIRIT, also most of my songs are formed from reading EVOLAS works.
Evola's utilitarian endorsement of religion, which seems it might even favor it as a necessary fiction, would not please most any Christian today, what with their highly specific doctrinal arguments and the logically important nature of said specificity with relation to the function of religion as civilization's only hope, through objective morality. Atheists have forced them to become more sophisticated, and so now they arrive at a point where Evola's religion, completely uninterested in theology, eschatology, and the particulars of salvation, seems like it would insult them.
Who is to conceptualise THE grand idea?
Would it be fair to say Evola wants the imperium of man from Warhammer 40k?
Yes
Did Evola ever comment on Orthodox Christianity?
Evola had high regard for al-Islam, seeing it as a complete religion, with a legal framework, AND, an inner dimension of transcendence (Sufism).
No, that is more like what would Guenon and Schuon think, Evola saw everything ready to decline. Some religions and nations may took longer but they will fall.
Also Sufism is just about barely Islam, like Nizari.
That shows how much Evola was wrong.
Millerman is indispensable. 🙌
Does Evola say how one goes about acquiring a belief in transcendent reality?
Platonism for modern times.Refreshing.
Talk about yukio mishima
Can you do Mein Kampf next? Why beat around the bush?
@@Steampeek But you do.
Mien kampf is lame gitler was a idiot
27:25 this is where/how Quietism started the emasculation of the Faith described, the Faith of St John of the Cross
How do you spell the name of that conservative thinker Vandenbrouck? Van den broek?
Van den Bruck millermanschool.com/p/van-den-bruck-course
At 8:00 - christ drew the clear paradigm of individual epiphany and redemption, free of pharasee/tribal interference and corruption. Evola loves the Roman church at the expense of Christ's universal promise. Facists and communists hate an individual's personal communion with God equally - there's no earthly power to take advantage of in it.
Perhaps ironically, Evola was the most influential non-Catholic author in me beginning to practise the Catholic Faith. I know in his earlier writings he took issue with the Church in much deeper ways, but his criticism here can be answered by the internal logic of the Catholic worldview, which holds that the three-fold unity of the Church in Faith, Sacraments, and Government is hierarchical: the latter two exist for the sake of the former, which means to exercise authority in the Church you must adhere to the entirety of Catholic dogma.
I also see his criticisms of the Axis as pretty armchair-y.
Nonetheless this piece is a great criticism of our world, its myths, and narratives.
@WhiteBaronn I'm not clear on what you're asking. Are you asking 'why is the Church not solving anything,' or 'why did you join the Church when it's not solving anything'?
Yes, it reminds me of how Father Seraphim Rose began his journey toward Orthodoxy when he discovered Rene Guenon, who he ended up strongly disagreeing with theologically, but deeply respected for his insightful critique of modernity.
In regards to point 11, wouldn't an athiest (who does not believe an afterlife) be considered more heroic than the religious if they put their life at risk in the same manner that religious people do? The athiest has no hope for a heaven to drive him, unlike the religious, and they would be putting at risk the only thing that they consider to be valuable, which is being alive in this life.
Athiest
Camus' existentialism is not inconsistent with Nietzsche and Evola after the moment of the Myth of Sisyphus
Nietzsche journey went through abyss and tragedy - but beyond all of that; its the human physiological-psychological-psychic-spiritual-cultural mode - tragedy/comedy, suffering and moments of glory. The monotheistic abrahamism attempts to subvert (project and scapegoat) and avoid tragedy.
I’m gonna order his books
Spiritual Eugenics.
I wonder how Evola would have responded to Bowlby and attachment theory, which for me synthesizes Darwinism, psychoanalysis and existentialism within a framework that is illuminating for personal development. Such a framework was nascent in 1950 but would soon be given its classic articulation in Bowlby’s great trilogy (Attachment, Separation, Loss). I can certainly imagine being fed up c.1950 with a parochial Darwinism that cynically bestializes human striving, with a psychosexual Freudianism privileging the basal instincts, and a postwar literary existentialism devoid of human affirmation. But an evolutionary-behavioral theory of the instincts, together with object relations and Heidegger’s phenomenology of Dasein might constitute a less malign troika - at least allowing us to more fully comprehend how man actually is alongside how we want him to be.
You have to start with the fact that by “tradition” Evola means his crazy idea that all culture comes from an ancient and unknown civilization in the extreme north, near the arctic circle. He doesn’t mean anything like “how we’ve been living in the Levant for thousands of years.” It’s a completely hopeless notion.
Evola says in revolt, if something is true it’s always been true, it can’t be new. The tradition he’s talking about is the tradition of true virtue, it’s very Platonic. I don’t agree with the ancient north aspect of his work either but his idea of tradition isn’t specific to that, at least the way I read it.
Right. Metaphysics. The timeless.
@@scottgodwin I think a lot of people take it that way, but it’s not what Evola means.
@@johnqpublic3766can you elaborate
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@@ccmetalhead It’s exactly what I just said. When Evola says “tradition,” he doesn’t mean what de Maistre or Chesterton mean. He means his speculative reconstruction of the ancient origins of civilization.
This is a wonderful précis
If you want to live in a world that is not a democracy, you can try Afghanistan. There they worry about "higher issues" and no lowly issues like having a good life and not dying at 30.
Or, alternatively, the world's largest economy, China
Excellent! Ty
"Are there still men?"
You just know he isnt referring to 51% of the population or anything so common sensical.
It's very encouraging to see that nowadays feminists are taking up Evola's question and ask "where are all the good men?" 😬
@@goonofhazard2203 They destroyed the good men.
@MaryC-co8fm It's very tempting to believe that, but I think it would be confusing cause and effect. We are in the last phase of Western civilization. That's the cause. Feminism/materialism/collectivism/atheism/feminization are the effect.
@@MaryC-co8fmmen need to take responsibility. Stop blaming women for where men made mistakes.
@ccmetalhead Women are gonna be women. The problem is that men now want to be women too (commies).
great!
The myth of the noble spirit, the great myth of aristocratic rule by self assumed betters. One size does NOT fit all - those who wear the shoes know where they pinch.
Yooooooooooooooooooo LFG
If the objective is to become heroic in the true sense of the word then that heroic struggle extends to all walks of life including the ecclesiastical. Evola wasn’t a Christian - he was an esoteric - yet his observations, insofar as they apply to a means of restoring manful tradition in the West, must apply to the Church as well. Want to save society? You need to save the church - it’s spiritual basis - as well. The reason it is in dire straits is the same reason everything else is - the mass of men has been funnelled into a small sector of the professions, where excellence is still possible - an imitation of heroic struggle - in pursuit of wealth and as such the life blood of every other part of the body politic is absent.
At 12:30 - never in the history of the world have we had a system based on rank and command, from Claudius to hitler, that didnt amount to meuling neurotics and subpar intelligences, and never has "spirtual racism" not amounted to simple racism among cultures. The dream of human hierarchy as "good" is a more sulfurous wind egg than an acceptance of multi-dimensional human potential.
Plato: "Democracy is the worst form of government".
if people think things are bad right now they should have tried being in the Eastern areas of England in the times of the Saxon and Danish invasions and wars etc... we have so many good ipportunities and freedoms and protections these days.. yes it's not perfect but we can fine tune that
You’ve got to give back to get out of here
What remains of your culture now little boy blue
did you give back the treasure you stole
did the demons within set you free from your sin
but deny you the key to your soul
You’ve got to give back to get out of here
there is only one path you must choose
did Marie Antoinette with her last cigarette
declare “give the poor beggar my shoes!”
Are you paying the price for redemption
is there more to be gained than is lost
did you sign your confession not learning your lesson
and end up just counting the cost
You’ve got to give back to get out of here
there is only one path you must find
did the first man in space feel a bit out of place
when he thought that they’d left him behind
Now you’ve got to be blind not to notice
that the worlds not the way that it seems
and if all you can do is just think about you
then you’re too busy living your dreams
You’ve got to give back to get out of here
this is only one moment in time
could Houdini escape without being awake
to the forces by which he was tied
You’ve got to give back to get out of here
there is only one path you will need
take the road straight ahead and don’t ever forget
that you don’t have to win to succeed
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Thanks for sharing this. Is there a recorded version with music?
Is this philosophy equivalent to the DonQuixote-ventriloquizing lyrics of 'The Impossible Dream' !?
good one 😂
The preacher and The poet
Yeah I wrote a song about thus called the God of Nowhere
darwinism, psychoanalysis and existentialism... DAMN RIGHT👌and all three have a T r i b a l common thread...
People forget that Darwin was Jewish
15:45
Julius Evola is such a postmodern new ager pretending to be traditional. He didn’t get married, no children, no community, no hierarchical obedience to a liturgical order, no understanding of humility and service to one’s community, and most importantly no wisdom concerning love. He is entertaining though!
In the 50s?
@@Chris-z1k7x yes.
Theres a full interview of him in France i think and in one part he specifies as to why he did not get married,against monogamy basically.
@@fellowgoyimwhite7630 yes I’ve heard it. he sounds exactly like a ‘polyamorous’ new age person of 2024. exactly my point.
As far as I can tell, Evola confronts fascism and then moves in to embrace it heartily.
He was wrong about psychoanalysis. No one goes to analysis to become more disturbed, more disorganized, and if it is the case, it’s only transitory. Only by investigating the internal antagonism can it be transformed into a sense of destiny.
Most of it is just codependence with the collective Other
Paying for a fake friend