![]() ![]() They were axioms and convictions of an earlier age, left unformulated and unspoken for centuries. His every argument seemed to depend on axioms and convictions which, not only did I not share, I didn’t even understand. My first foray into reading Evola utterly failed. Those in the know warned me that Evola was going to be very difficult for me to understand, but I dove headlong into Men Among the Ruins anyway. He was also said to be one of the most challenging to read. Evola was said to be one of the most anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, and anti-democratic thinkers of the 20th century. When a number of Evola-related memes and debates began to filter up into my noosphere, I decided to see what the fuss was all about. Trump’s ex-consigliere, Steve Bannon, claimed to be an avid reader of the Italian occultist-turned-political-philosopher. The writings of Julius Evola first came to my attention in the aftermath of the 2016 election. ![]()
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