Yeah I own this book. Unfortunately I bought it before I had read it. Evola had some interesting things to say but he was no Christian, let alone a Catholic. The book tends to overly complicate issues (e.g. saying simple things in either complicated ways or speaking about a complicated issue in ways that are unnecessarily complex...that's just how people in academia write; they are called "academic blowhards" for a good reason).
Evola writes like Rene Guenon (whose book The Reign of Quality and The Signs of the Times I also unfortunately bought before I had read it) who also is a non-Christian and non-Catholic. Too much time is wasted trying to read their unnecessarily complicated works. I may post some good Evola quotes later but to completely read either Evola or Guenon books is to waste a lot of time on pseudo - scholarly gobbledygook. Even Spengler's The Decline of the West (a 2 volume work with its large number of unnecessarily complex "Spenglerian terms" to describe common issues) is a much better read than either Evola or Guenon, especially Volume 2.
Just my two cents.
I appreciate your 2 cents, IC.
The value that I see in the summary of Evola's thought is to make one question their own approach to life and a changed/changing society. In fact, as I see it, that is the basic question underlying the vast majority of posts on this forum; individuals attempting to hash out how best to live their own life, become who they are supposed to be.
As you have no doubt noticed, many engage in an awful lot of "if only"; "if only things were this way", "if only so and so would do x", "if I were in charge, I'd do x", etc. (An approach, I might add, which I took in spades when younger.) Maybe there is some value to engaging in that that I am missing but, to me, it seems like wasted energy and effort. A kind of "tilting at windmills" if you will. Whereas, at least superficially, Evola's approach seems closer to engaging real life. An attempt to face things as they are and not so much as how they
should be.
I'd like to hear more of your thought if you would care to share.
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