What about a superior individualism? That's precisely what Evola's
work is all about : superior individualism is another word for
personality.
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "darkiexx" <tristanarpe@h...>
wrote:
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> If your hair is really yellow.. Say it loud and proud…Or get it
> darkened..
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> Curiously, the so called metaphysics of subjectivity, has been
> equated with technology and the individualist call for human
rights.
>
> With out sounding like one of those Po-Mo imbeciles, I can refer to
> M. Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology (1977), he
writes:
> the world is transformed into picture and man into subiectum-throws
> light at the same time on the grounding of modern history, an event
> at first glance seems almost absurd. Namely, the more extensively
> and the more effectually the world stands at man's disposal as
> conquered, and the more objectively the object appears, all the
more
> subjectively, i.e., the more importunately, does the subiectum rise
> up, and all the more impetuously, too, do observation of and
> teaching about the world change into a doctrine of man, into
> anthropology (p.133).
>
> Heidegger then further discusses this idea of anthropology as a
> moral humanism. An impossibility during the great age of the Greeks
> as it would have been to even of had a world picture. The world
> picture today subsequently equates with humanism. Ironically, this
> may tie in with the other thread about charity and feminism.
>
> Nevertheless, and this is a shot in the dark, but what about a
> different superior individualism; one that reaches it own optimal
> point to become its own absolute transcendence…
>
> Is not total mobilisation a redundant point, considering your enemy
> lives next door, not on some romantic's battlefield.
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> Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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> Main Entry: importunate
> 1 : troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand
> 2 : TROUBLESOME
> - im·por·tu·nate·ly adverb
> - im·por·tu·nate·ness noun
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> Main Entry: impetuous
> Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French impetueux, from Late
> Latin impetuosus, from Latin impetus
> 1 : marked by impulsive vehemence or passion <an impetuous
> temperament>
> 2 : marked by force and violence of movement or action <an
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "zenon_noir" <slugg3r@h...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I am sure that 'darkiexx' will excuse your impurity, as he will
> mine
> > not only for the eyes, but for the double-sin of having yellow
> hair:
> > yellow which, after all, is the color of urine and of the asian
> > invader!
> >
> > The question in my initial post concerns the political aspect of a
> > military engagement, which cannot be ignored. "Se sacrifier, pour
> > l'homme, est un bonheur: et l'art suprême du commandement
consiste
> à
> > lui désigner des buts dignes de ce sacrifice (p.108)." Can we
today
> > still speak of political objectives worth any sacrifice? I doubt
> > it. The first question can thus be reforumlated: can the
sacrifice
> in
> > case of a "total mobilization" be carried out as an end in itself?
> >
> > While the sacrificial death can no longer today be made in the
> name of
> > the State or the Imperium, it can, I am inclined to think, for
the
> new
> > type of man, be carried out as an end in itself. It must be
> recalled
> > that for 'the worker', all of existence must be sacrificed: it is
> not,
> > however, the romantic 'mors triumphalis' that is meant by
sacrifice
> > here, but the sacrifice of one's petty individuality for absolute
> > impersonality:
> >
> > "C'est à ce type qu'appartient l'impersonnalité. Il n'est pas
> > irremplaçable: chaque tué peut être immédiatement remplacé par un
> > autre "travailleur", dans l'esprit d'une même tradition ou d'une
> même
> > fonction (pp.190-196). De même que l'individu disparaît, ainsi la
> > masse comme pure quantité disparaît - on va au contraire vers de
> > nouvelles formations organiques, et même qualitatives."
> >
> > "Le monde du "travail" engage tout l'être, toute la vie. Et il
> aime,
> > il veut cet engagement total, jusqu'au bout, jusqu'à la
> destruction."
> >
> > Thus, the 'furor belli' you referred to is activated as an end in
> > itself. One must seek out the elementary and dominate it ("ride
the
> > tiger"):
> >
> > "Il en résulte la nécessité d'un nouvel ordre, d'un ordre fondé,
> non
> > pas sur l'exclusion du danger, mais sur une nouvelle union de la
> vie
> > et du danger. Pour l'individu, le nouveau monde du "travailleur"
> > signifiera, non pas une diminution, mais une augmentation du
> travail:
> > mais il disposera de forces nouvelles pour maîtriser ces nouveaux
> > fardeaux (p.91)."
> >
> > As you recalled me saying, there is really one way of getting a
> true
> > answer to my inquiry, and that is by trying and seeing for
> oneself. I
> > must admit, though, that I was hoping I would get more insights
> into
> > the matter before I try and see if being turned into fragments on
> the
> > battefield is an effective method for transcendence...
> >
> >
> > --- In
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok"
> <vandermok@l...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hoping that 'darkiexx' do not be shocked at the fact my eyes
are
> not
> > 'ice blue' but only green/grey, I confirm that the warrior
> > civilisation of the ancient Rome had nothing to do with
the 'Papist
> > Latin'.
> > >
> > > Today the 'war of machines' can teach mostly the sense of
> discipline
> > and hierarchy but hardly could involve the sacred 'furor belli'
> (war
> > fury). The 'furor' drove some warrior till to sacrifice himself
to
> the
> > underworld's gods for achieving the collective victory (see for
> > instance the episode of the consul Decius in Titus Livy, Historiae
> > VIII, 9,1).
> > > Evola wrote about, but on the light of the alchemical process,
> here
> > and there in 'La Tradizione Ermetica'.
> > > Anyway, the 'furor' of the warrior, after the victory, was
> ritually
> > 'closed' into the temple of Janus (Mars, Hercules, Quirinus and
> Janus
> > being hypostasis of the same 'force') to avoid every backstroke
to
> the
> > fatherland, because after the possibility of a 'mors triumphalis'
> > (triumphal death) during the battle, there was also a
> temporary 'pax
> > triumphalis' (triumphal peace).
> > >
> > > Since the only existing god or force is the one we can
experience
> > inside, it seems to me not being indiscreet to remember you (H.
F.)
> > already answered in part by yourself the interrogative on the
Army
> and
> > the today's approach to the 'war of machines' when time ago you
> said
> > me personally: "I might have to try and see for myself".
> > >
> > >
> > > In <
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com>
> > > frederick_of_hohenstaufen <slugg3r@h...>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > In 'Le Chemin du Cinabre', Evola writes:
> > >
> > > "Dans la guerre moderne se déchaîne l'élémentaire (le terme est
à
> > > prendre comme lorsqu'on parle des forces élémentaires de la
> nature),
> > > l'élémentaire lié au matériel c'est-à-dire à un ensemble de
> moyens
> > > techniques d'une extrême puissance destructrice (les "batailles
> de
> > > matériel"). C'est comme une force non-humaine éveillé et mise en
> > > muovement par l'homme, à laquelle l'individu-soldar ne peut
> échapper:
> > > il doit se mesurer à elle, il doit devenir l'instrument de la
> > > mécanique et lui tenuir tête en même temps: spirituellement, et
> non
> > > pas seulement physiquement. Cela n'est possible que si l'on se
> forge
> > > soi-même en tant que type humain nouveau qui, précisément au
> milieu de
> > > situations destructices pour tout autre, sache saisir un sens
> absolu
> > > de la vie." (p.191)
> > >
> > > The same analysis can be found in "Le "Travailleur" et les
> falaises de
> > > marbre" at
http://thompkins_cariou.tripod.com/id59.html.
English-
> only
> > > speakers can refer to Jünger's 'The Worker' ('Der Arbeiter').
> Briefly,
> > > the main idea from the quotation above is that the destructive,
> > > elementary discharges of modern war may be used for the man
with
> the
> > > right spiritual qualification for a transcendent -- or mehr-als-
> leben,
> > > to use an expression Evola borrowed from Simmel -- experience.
> > >
> > > Those considerations become truer as the years go by and as
every
> > > aspect of existence increasingly depend on technology and
> > > mechanization, to the extent that today, in the field of war,
we
> may
> > > objectively and non-figuratively speak of a "war of machines."
> > >
> > > Considering the above, the following questions might not be out
> of
> > > place: is the military today still a legitimate direction for
> the man
> > > seeking an opening to transcendence, and if so, to what extent?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> >
>