“There is no point in indulging in wishful thinking with the illusions of any kind of optimism: today we find ourselves at the end of a cycle. Already for centuries, at first insensibly, then with the momentum of a landslide, multiple processes have destroyed every normal and legitimate human order in the West and falsified every higher conception of living, acting, knowing, and fighting.
The momentum of this fall, its velocity, its giddiness, has been called ‘progress’. We have raised hymns to ‘progress’ and deluded ourselves that this civilisation—a civilisation of matter and machines—was civilisation par excellence, the one for which the entire history of the world was preordained. The final consequences of this entire process have been such as to cause some people, at least, to wake up.”
—Julius Evola, Orientations, Point 1.
Image: Gothic Church Ruins by Carl Blechen
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