Saturday 29 March 2008
In Ride the Tiger, Evola contends that in the modern world, man lacks the ability to become fully realized. The traditions and transcendent values that upheld the nation in ancient times are either gone, decayed, or have become corrupted. The traditional man must project himself into something that is greater than himself—but in our age, there exists nothing but the abyss of existentialism, the delirium of narcotics, and the decadence of materialism. In former decades we could add collectivism to the above, but Marxism continues its rightful decline into obscurity, kept on life-support only by nostalgic college professors.
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Wednesday 19 March 2008
Ethics is seldom reducible to complex mathematical formulations or empirical axioms. The most obvious effort to base ethics on such formulations is utilitarianism, which seeks the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number—or the least amount of misery. Happiness here can mean pleasure as well, and it is in this way that Mill’s philosophy is hedonistic, not eudaimonistic.
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Wednesday 12 March 2008
The staff at Corrupt.org are organizing an Evola hiking trip--in the Swiss Alps!
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Wednesday 05 March 2008
We see unfolding in the first few months of 2008 a crisis in what Evola calls the “Judeo-Protestant plutocracy.” Asset deflation in the residential housing market, a credit “crunch,” and the dollar crisis, have made our cadre of plutocrats and technocrats nervous.
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