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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?

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Sun Jan 1, 2006 5:38 pm

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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...
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Jan 1, 2006
6:58 pm

Since both 'Il cammino del cinabro' and 'Le chemin du cinabre' are no longer available, and it has not been published in English yet, this is how that excerpt...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Jan 1, 2006
11:46 pm

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...
vandermok
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Jan 2, 2006
1:39 pm

Vandermok: Hoping that 'darkiexx' do not be shocked at the fact my eyes are not 'ice blue' but only green/grey. Snap!! Sir, I also have green eyes and grey...
darkiexx Offline Send Email Jan 2, 2006
5:35 pm

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...
zenon_noir Offline Send Email Jan 2, 2006
6:00 pm

If your hair is really yellow.. Say it loud and proud…Or get it darkened.. Curiously, the so called metaphysics of subjectivity, has been equated with...
darkiexx Offline Send Email Jan 3, 2006
9:44 am

What about a superior individualism? That's precisely what Evola's work is all about : superior individualism is another word for personality. ... rights. ... ...
evola_as_he_is Offline Send Email Jan 4, 2006
1:38 pm

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