Hello,
Your review of the fourth chapter of 'The Elements of Racial
Education' is most accurate. Besides, just like Evola and a few
other writers, you don't have to make an effort to write in an
impersonal manner. However, as much your style is impersonal, as
much, by using the name 'Evola' six times in 16 lines, you may
convey the wrong impression that the views set out by him on race
are merely his, and not, to a large extent, traditional Aryan
teachings applied by him to the conditions peculiar to our times.
This is the only reservation which we would make on your review.
Thompkins&Cariou
Thompkins&Cariou--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Ciopa"
<hyperborean@b...> wrote:
> In Chapter 4 - "Racial Heredity and Tradition" - Evola provides
an answer
> to his own question:
>
>
>
> "What is the inner, experiential meaning of the racial law of
heredity?"
>
>
>
> The meaning is twofold:
>
> 1) It means the overcoming of the liberal, individualistic,
and
> rationalistic conception of the self
>
> 2) It means to be explicitly aware and to know concretely
that it is
> forces rooted inside of us, and not the mechanical and impersonal
influences
> of the environment.
>
>
>
> Regarding (1) Evola's racism considers the individual in space (as
part of a
> race of living individuals) and in time (a unity of stock,
tradition, blood)
>
> And by tradition, Evola does not simply mean connecting with the
works of
> our ancestors, but rather to be animated by the same forces that
animated
> our ancestors.
>
>
>
> Regarding (2), Evola wants to disassociate his view from any taint
of
> Lamarckianism or that environmental factors (e.g., geography,
climate,
> economy, etc) are determinative of civilizations.
>
>
>
> Evola makes the point that "if the individual does not exist
outside race,
> race, in its turn, in a certain sense, does not exist outside the
> individual, or, better, the personality."
>
>
>
> In particular, race really exists only in the "throughbred", at
least most
> fully. Racial consciousness, according to Evola, is not
determinative, since
> the inner meaning of racial heredity must be freely chosen by each
new
> generation.