{"id":536,"date":"2010-06-17T21:18:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T01:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=536"},"modified":"2022-06-16T22:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T02:40:54","slug":"the-name-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"The Name of the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThe West no longer knows Wisdom: it no longer knows the majestic silence of those who have mastered themselves, the bright calm of the Seers, the superb \u201csolar\u201d reality of those in whom the idea has made itself blood, life, and power. Wisdom has been supplanted by the rhetoric of \u201cphilosophy\u201d and \u201cculture\u201d, the realm of professors, journalists, and sportsmen\u2014the plan, the program, the proclamation. It has succumbed to sentimental, religious, humanitarian contamination, and the race of chatterers who run around madly exalting \u201cbecoming\u201d and \u201cpractice\u201d, because silence and contemplation frighten them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"attrib\">~ Julius Evola, <em>Pagan Imperialism<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"font-size:large\">Which nation honors its philosophers and mathematicians, and which its sportsmen?<\/p>\n<p>The philosopher Auguste Comte gets a major boulevard in Paris, the football coach Don Shula gets an expressway in Miami, but I get an alley in Salemi.\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/ViaSalvo.jpg\" alt=\"Via Salvo Salemi\" title=\"Salemi, Sicily\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/donshulaexpy.jpg\" alt=\"Don Shula Expressway Miami\" title=\"Miami, Florida USA\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/RueAugusteComte.jpg\" alt=\"Rue Auguste Comte Paris\" title=\"Paris, France\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which nation honors its philosophers and mathematicians, and which its sportsmen? <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=536\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/images\/ViaSalvo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16279,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/16279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}