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On the one hand we have the Traditionalists and Evolaites who wish to return to an imaginary past, or emphasize the importance of what they call the Western Tradition, but is actually oriental mysticism and Steppe tribalism. Discontent with the modern world of welfare democracy and interventionism, they instead call for a return to these anti-Western and anti-civilization values. Economically they are usually producerist (i.e., welfare interventionists) and populists (i.e., democratic). Sometimes they advocate a return to a ruralist lifestyle, without seeming to realize that this would be suicide for the vast populations of the Earth. Not only are they not in the western tradition, they’re not even able to separate themselves from the ‘people’s state’ of the 20th century. On top of this they usually glorify some half-dead religion, or worse yet, some cranky Wiccan/Asatru bullshit that no one with a bit of sanity could take seriously.
Evola’s point is that society is in the Kali Yuga, we are submerged into materialist culture with no spirituality and no values. That we must turn away from this.
“Half-dead religion”, as if it no longer exist?
[POINTLESS BARB DELETED] Wiccan is some new age right-hand path religion that has NO CONNECTION to actual pagan religions. Evola was more interested in Greco-Roman paganism than Odinism/Asatru since he was Italian. He wanted to go back to the values and the spirituality of past religions. If you have any more ill-informed attacks on paganism keep them to yourself.
Also, a lot of people who are into Asatru or read Evola, from what I’ve seen, have well paying careers and aren’t involved with a bunch of new age nonsense, if you think they want to return to a ruralist world with no technology you are wrong.
- The beloved Scandinavian and Germanic peoples only have an acquired tradition of Greco-Roman Christian culture, and very little survives of their older culture. It’s pointless to glorify people who practiced human sacrifice. The only Latin-speaking scholar to say they had any superior culture was R. A. Lafferty - a science fiction author specializing in historical fiction.
A lot survives. Human sacrifice? Where? Again, ill-informed about the culture.
- There was no such thing as a Germanic peoples to begin with. Asatru,.etc really is a Conan the Barbarian comic book fantasy. There were just Franks, Visigoths, Slavs,.etc spread out around the areas of modern day Germany, and Alpine dwelling peoples have been there who were not Germanic. It’s a mixed race borne from other peoples. Apparently, many people thought that identity (itself a vague concept) is not something you are born into, but something you can choose, through a fake history of your supposed peoples and claiming some pure racial ancestry that was never there.
Asatru is some made up religion? Do you know anything about Asatru? What is known as Asatru/Odinism was as wide spread as Scotland and England through Scandinavia and Germany, and surrounding peoples. Are you also saying Germanic peoples never existed?
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