{"id":4794,"date":"2012-09-02T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2020-07-01T21:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T01:47:17","slug":"orientations-point-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"Orientations: Point 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

⇐ Point 9<\/a>   Point 11 ⇒<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nJulius Evola points out the three possible reactions to the modern world, which he regards as fundamentally “bourgeois”. We may dispute that today in that proletarian values seem to predominate in our time.<\/p>\n

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  1. Oppose the bourgeoisie with a “collectivized and materialized humanity,” to which we may add an “undifferentiated” humanity.<\/li>\n
  2. Maintain the bourgeois status quo through focusing on the economic life, solely.<\/li>\n
  3. Oppose the bourgeoisie with a “higher heroic and aristocratic conception of existence”, which is both “anterior and superior” to the current state of affairs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    The position that lies in the zone between culture and custom will finally be made clear. From communism came the rallying cry of the anti-bourgeois that was also picked up in the cultural groups of certain \u201ccommitted\u201d intellectual circles. As bourgeois society is something intermediate, so there exists a double possibility of surpassing the bourgeois, of saying \u201cno\u201d to the bourgeois type, to bourgeois civilization, to the bourgeois spirit and bourgeois values. One corresponds to the direction that leads even lower than all that, toward a collectivized and materialized humanity with its Marxist \u201crealism\u201d: social and proletarian values against bourgeois and capitalist decadence. But the other is the direction of those who oppose the bourgeoisie in order to actually rise up beyond it. The men of the new arrangement will still be anti-bourgeois, but by way of the aforesaid higher heroic and aristocratic conception of existence; they will be anti-bourgeois because they disdain the comfortable life; anti-bourgeois because they will follow not those who promise material advantages, but those who demand everything from themselves; anti-bourgeois, finally, because they are not preoccupied with security but love the essential union between life and risk, on all planes, making the inexorability of the bare idea and precise action his own. Yet another aspect, through which the new man, cellular substance for the motion of awakening, will be anti-bourgeois and will differentiate himself from the preceding generation, is through his intolerance of every form of rhetoric and false idealism, of all those great words that are written in capital letters, of everyone who is merely a gesture, words intended for effect, scenography. Essentiality, instead, a new realism in pitting itself exactly against the problems that will be imposed, in doing so the value is not appearing, but rather being, not prattling, but rather realizing, in a silent and exact way, in sync with similar forces and in adherence to the command that comes from above.<\/p>\n

    Those who are able to react against the forces of the left only in the name of idols, of lifestyle and the mediocre conformist morality of the bourgeois world, have already lost the battle beforehand. This is not the case for the man who stands on his feet, having already passed through the purifying fire of internal and external destruction. This man, in the same way that politically he is not the instrument of a false bourgeois reaction, so, in general, he regains forces and ideals anterior and superior to the bourgeois world and the economic era, and it is with them that he creates the lines of defense and consolidates positions when, at the opportune moment, he will strike out with the action of reconstruction.<\/p>\n

    Even in such regard, we intend to reclaim a delivery not followed: because we know how in the Fascist era there was an anti-bourgeois tendency that had tried to explicate itself in a not dissimilar sense. Unfortunately even there the human element was not up to the task. And they knew how to make rhetoric even out of anti-rhetoric.<\/p>\n

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    ⇐ Point 9<\/a>   Point 11 ⇒<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    ⇐ Point 9   Point 11 ⇒ Julius Evola points out the three possible reactions to the modern world, which he regards as fundamentally “bourgeois”. We may dispute that today in that proletarian values seem to predominate in our time. Oppose the bourgeoisie with a “collectivized and materialized humanity,” to which we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[710],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evola","tag-orientations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12372,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/12372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}