RE: [evola_as_he_is] Elements of Racial Education -- Chap 3
In Chapter 3, Evola develops the consequences of the feeling of race.
First of all, racial consciousness is accompanied by a "deep reaction
against the democratic and egalitarian marsh". Opposed to this is what he
calls the "demo-Masonic myth", according to which "the supreme value is
'humanity' in the singular, and within which all beings must become
essentially equal".
NOTE: This may remind us of Joseph de Maistre's comment: "There is no such
thing in this world as man; I have seen in my life French, Italians, and
Russians . . . but as for man, I declare that I have never met one in my
life; if he exists, it is entirely without my knowledge."
(Confusingly, de Maistre was a Mason -- perhaps someone with more knowledge
of the inner workings of this organization can explain this contradiction.)
Evola clarifies that he does not deny the existence of common aspects in
human beings; yet he insists that the differences are also equally real.
Racism -- according to his definition -- aligns itself with the classical
spirit, which opposes everything that has form, face, and individuation to
what is formless, vague, and undifferentiated. The classical ideal is that
of the "cosmos": "an ensemble of well individuated natures and substances,
organically and hierarchically connected in a whole."
Evola rejects the ideal humanity of the demo-Masonic myth in favor of the
living, concrete, well defined forms in which [humanity] articulates itself
-- these forms are the races. Keep in mind that by "race", Evola understands
a "unity either of language, of instinct, or of spirit."
An undifferentiated 'humanity' exists when "we go back to a chaotic,
collectivist, promiscuous world", the end result of a process of social and
spiritual leveling.
In Evola's view, any difference (including the corporeal) is symbolic: the
"inside manifests itself in the outside."
Evola concludes by emphasizing that "fidelity to one's own nature" (i.e.,
blood and race) is the "inner, ethical, and spiritual counterpart" to the
scientific formulation of race.
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