Julius Evola Against the Modern World 

10/10 Evola is one of the most misunderstood philosophers. You're doing God's work. Keep it up !

It is very sad to learn that Evola's thoughts in 1950 largely correspond to the world we live in right now - but absolutely excellently explained by MM.

The intuition of these ideas have operated throughout my life. I have to admit, I have been at times all too infected by the weakness of our times. The collapse of all around me has awakened me to that which transcends myself. Better late than never...I hope.

You don't condemn or romanticize. But you are straightforward, clear and articulate. This was really good!

You have a real knack for making complex/esoteric political philosophy accessible to the layperson!

One thing I like about Michael's presentations besides his clarity is that he does not impose prejudices in his deliveries from either the Right or the Left.

Brilliant, thank you for giving voice to this most important contemporary thinker.

Fascinating!

Great to see you covering this fascinating anti-liberal author

Before I moved to writing on my website, I used to also make videos on Evola, and I am very glad you continue to produce such high-quality summaries of his work. Seeing a scholarly RU-vid video is a rare, but welcomed sight.

Great video, as a layman who has actually read Revolt Against Modern World and Ride the Tiger the philosophy required reading was a little much for me, this was a great way to approach it for...let's say..."lowest common denominator" type thinking to be polite lol

Very inspiring work. Lucidly presented. I look forward to consuming more of your work.

Thank you for your wonderful presentation of his 11 Points! I look forward to more Evola videos in the future!

Thank you for bringing Evola to my attention. I, regrettably, never heard of him prior to this video, yet his words describe perfectly the modern societal devastation we are all witness to. I look forward to reading his works.

Incredible content. Wonderfully precise.

Instant thumbs up. I'll listen tomorrow.

thanks bro. I wish you had been one of my professors, or even HS teachers 50 years ago when this might have done me some good. You are doing the Lord's work.

Love your videos on Evola and Dugin!

Enjoyed your presentation of Evola. I never heard of him before. Great man!. Thank you😊

These vids are awesome, thanks for your impartial exploration of a fascinating thinker. Do you have plans to survey authors on the far-left as well? It would be very interesting to see these two ends of the spectrum come into contact

Thank you! You explain things very clearly.

Heard of Cameron MacGregor (Men in the City)? Venn Diagram overlapping going on. What you’re presenting seems like floorboard material for some of his output . Terrific!

The timing was perfect for me to put this up as a comment on Stephen J Delaney substack on his article calling on Christians and Pagans in Ireland to come together in resisting against the government and it's destruction of the country and it's people. Thanks I think this talk will help.

Awesome job , as usual Mr MM . ty

Fantastic video Michael. You always have a way of making these ideas more digestible.

Excellent. Thank you

I like his thoughts distinguishing the spirit from religion. Thank you for the summary

Evola, a man on a razors edge. You work out what I mean by that.

Evola was an aristocrat.

I agree with all the positive comments. The presentation aligns very well with my own thinking.

I would appreciate Michael Millerman analyzing a counterpoint to Evola's book -- The Rules of St Benedict, which discusses the principles of living in a religious community.

That was really great. Explained well, flowed from start to finish. Intertwined quotes well with expository. Solid A, gold star, what have you. Evola is smart; you too. I am less. The second best main bad guy in the Final Fantasy series is Kefka from #3/6j. It was popular, you may have played it. When you read the quote about Reactionary not being a strong enough word, I imagined Kefka pushing the statues apart; just to shatter the world. And I imagined a funny scene with post-modern philosophers generating word salad the whole time.

Millerman is indispensable. 🙌

Platonism for modern times.Refreshing.

3 in and I already love this!!! The world is suffering from weak men!!!

Thoughts on reading books in print vs pdf format through a screen? Thanks.

If a master class has ever been presented on the essence of Evolas work, this is it. Transcendence indeed! ---------- " Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all your works unto Me, with mind intent on Me, and without desire for gain and free from egoism and lethargy - fight" Bhagavad-Gita

Oh this is going to be great

Excellent! Ty

“A complex unity in the process of decline.” Powerful

Does Evola say how one goes about acquiring a belief in transcendent reality?

Please do a video about Uncle Ted.

Spiritual Eugenics.

I also wrote another one called I AM THE SPIRIT, also most of my songs are formed from reading EVOLAS works.

Evola really sounds like Platos 'lion' if it had become trancesendant. Really captivating.

This is a wonderful précis

great!

Who is to conceptualise THE grand idea?

I never read Evola, but the introduction you gave, while I can agree with most of it, presents a notion that frightens me (it was Hitler's motto and was now refurbished by the totalitarian EU): "The common good, above the individual good" - it reduces humans to bees in a hive and, somehow, contradicts other points presented. I would need time to dig further into this.

Thanks!

I’m gonna order his books

Thank you

Amazing recomendation papa. Do you think Juluis Evola was an anti semite?

Anybody in the comments section know how I can purchase Alexander Dugins - 4th Political Theory in Australia?

Evola embraced the idea of a hierarchical society governed by a male spiritual elite or male warrior caste. If that's anyone's idea as to what's desirable, then I can only pity them.

"Are there still men?" You just know he isnt referring to 51% of the population or anything so common sensical.

Hi. Can you define the word tradition according to Evola? Just a sentence. Please no chat gpt or anything like AI.

whenever you can't quite make sense of the world, Michael "Millertime" Millerman has a book for you!

Who is John Galt? Thank you for introducing me to this philosopher. Very interesting concepts. Some similarities to Ayn Rand.

The preacher and The poet

Can you do Mein Kampf next? Why beat around the bush?

He is right. Man has fallen. We are just talking endlessly on the problems that we ourselves created.

if people think things are bad right now they should have tried being in the Eastern areas of England in the times of the Saxon and Danish invasions and wars etc... we have so many good ipportunities and freedoms and protections these days.. yes it's not perfect but we can fine tune that

Total Evolian Victory

Coco Chanel instantly popped into my mind as a female model of Evola’s traditional man. Read her biography, you will see.

Yooooooooooooooooooo LFG

The one spirit in it's decline is somewhat nonsensical imo. What gives him the right to reject class analysis and write off socialism as if it were at all similar to liberalism?

Perhaps ironically, Evola was the most influential non-Catholic author in me beginning to practise the Catholic Faith. I know in his earlier writings he took issue with the Church in much deeper ways, but his criticism here can be answered by the internal logic of the Catholic worldview, which holds that the three-fold unity of the Church in Faith, Sacraments, and Government is hierarchical: the latter two exist for the sake of the former, which means to exercise authority in the Church you must adhere to the entirety of Catholic dogma. I also see his criticisms of the Axis as pretty armchair-y. Nonetheless this piece is a great criticism of our world, its myths, and narratives.

If the objective is to become heroic in the true sense of the word then that heroic struggle extends to all walks of life including the ecclesiastical. Evola wasn’t a Christian - he was an esoteric - yet his observations, insofar as they apply to a means of restoring manful tradition in the West, must apply to the Church as well. Want to save society? You need to save the church - it’s spiritual basis - as well. The reason it is in dire straits is the same reason everything else is - the mass of men has been funnelled into a small sector of the professions, where excellence is still possible - an imitation of heroic struggle - in pursuit of wealth and as such the life blood of every other part of the body politic is absent.

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27:11 As much as I admire Evola and humble myself before his cultured erudition, I insist that he fails to appreciate the first doctrine of the Catholic faith: the sin of Adam. Men cannot achieve Evola's vision without this appreciation, i.e. without being Catholic. And as history now plainly shows, not even then.

Plato: "Democracy is the worst form of government".

He was wrong about psychoanalysis. No one goes to analysis to become more disturbed, more disorganized, and if it is the case, it’s only transitory. Only by investigating the internal antagonism can it be transformed into a sense of destiny.

Why do people pronounce Nietzsche as Nicha? It's not like you are trying to pronounce Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz.

Is this philosophy equivalent to the DonQuixote-ventriloquizing lyrics of 'The Impossible Dream' !?

Yeah I wrote a song about thus called the God of Nowhere

I owe Jean Parvulesco's works the introduction to Julius Evola's great mind . They were both wise men living in the world of cave dwelling Darwinians . "L' esprit de coer " should sum it up . But how many men today know it ?

The pick and choose approach to history of Evola, Guenon and alikes has the opposite effect of what they think they do: Instead of returning to a traditional reality or instating a truly heroic life they accelerate into post-modernist uncertainty. They try to obscure the contradiction between tradition and new order with vague spirituality or mysticism. That's why the supposedly eternal transcendent truths they carve out always differ. They nominally reject LARPers but actually produce them via their post-modern view on history. Because of theese kind of writings people skip between all kinds of religions, combine and mix ideas and in the course of that loose themselves in (mostly consumerist) estranged self-expression. If you have been on social media, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. Evolas argument talks traditionalist but acts liberal.

You’ve got to give back to get out of here What remains of your culture now little boy blue did you give back the treasure you stole did the demons within set you free from your sin but deny you the key to your soul You’ve got to give back to get out of here there is only one path you must choose did Marie Antoinette with her last cigarette declare “give the poor beggar my shoes!” Are you paying the price for redemption is there more to be gained than is lost did you sign your confession not learning your lesson and end up just counting the cost You’ve got to give back to get out of here there is only one path you must find did the first man in space feel a bit out of place when he thought that they’d left him behind Now you’ve got to be blind not to notice that the worlds not the way that it seems and if all you can do is just think about you then you’re too busy living your dreams You’ve got to give back to get out of here this is only one moment in time could Houdini escape without being awake to the forces by which he was tied You’ve got to give back to get out of here there is only one path you will need take the road straight ahead and don’t ever forget that you don’t have to win to succeed Kehoesongs copyright reserved ©️

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27:25 this is where/how Quietism started the emasculation of the Faith described, the Faith of St John of the Cross

As far as I can tell, Evola confronts fascism and then moves in to embrace it heartily.

Evola's utilitarian endorsement of religion, which seems it might even favor it as a necessary fiction, would not please most any Christian today, what with their highly specific doctrinal arguments and the logically important nature of said specificity with relation to the function of religion as civilization's only hope, through objective morality. Atheists have forced them to become more sophisticated, and so now they arrive at a point where Evola's religion, completely uninterested in theology, eschatology, and the particulars of salvation, seems like it would insult them.

Evola is an outstanding thinker, but he was too focused on his ideas, although it follows from his ideas that the power of the “fourth estate” is inevitable, this power already manifests itself, because the “fourth estate” is characteristic that it directly interacts with matter, this So all workers, artisans, engineers, etc. They make up this estate, the peak of which is engineers. Therefore, future technocracy, the sprouts of which we are already observing.

You have to start with the fact that by “tradition” Evola means his crazy idea that all culture comes from an ancient and unknown civilization in the extreme north, near the arctic circle. He doesn’t mean anything like “how we’ve been living in the Levant for thousands of years.” It’s a completely hopeless notion.

Julius evola is one of the most remarkable author i would say better than guenon.

That "one spirit" behind 20thcentury ideology is belief in transcendent objective morality, which, with some irony, was born first by Abrahamic religion. Ironic because the Christian declares that ideological horrors are the result of atheism, which in part they may be, but only in so far as they've carried forward what they've been infected with, which is that aforementioned belief, and done so without the regulating (albeit internally contradicting) whole of the Abrahamic canons. While some theorists instrumental in said ideologies proclaim against such a belief (post-modernism), the rank and file are animated by it, and were conditioned to become warriors for ideologies by their sensitivity to ominous remonstrations in their formative years, and conditioning for the lust of moral championhood, in habits that themselves trace back to Abrahamic faiths. One can be, and history can move towards, more and more empathy and equality, but the seed that wreaks havoc where these motives meet their instruments of power, is this vestigial belief in transcendent objective morality.

ok, but you have to remember the violent antisemitism of Evola: a different antisemitism in confront of nazist antisemitism, neverthless violent. Not modern nazi antisemitism but medieval inquisition antisemitism

I'm looking for an honest man- Diogenes of Sinope.

Evola is right "light". He's near the bottom of the list of idealogical importance. Codreanu is the voice and vision near or at the top.

Defeat the comfort seeking merchant mind. Embrace the will of Christ!

20:17 Completely mis-understands the Catholic faith. His misconceived condescension is staggering. I continue to read him only because he is a genius. This kind of error, from a lesser man, would remove him from my reading list forever.

At 12:30 - never in the history of the world have we had a system based on rank and command, from Claudius to hitler, that didnt amount to meuling neurotics and subpar intelligences, and never has "spirtual racism" not amounted to simple racism among cultures. The dream of human hierarchy as "good" is a more sulfurous wind egg than an acceptance of multi-dimensional human potential.

Everything wrong with Evola boils down to his elevation of the warrior over the priestly caste. The warrior can't choose his religion. And he can't choose the higher idea to which he aspires. At least. It in the way Evola seems to speak of it. Evola is like a "protestant perennialist" who rejects the authority of the contemplative priestly class for the active life of the warrior class.

28:42 Utopia. There are no such men.

At 8:00 - christ drew the clear paradigm of individual epiphany and redemption, free of pharasee/tribal interference and corruption. Evola loves the Roman church at the expense of Christ's universal promise. Facists and communists hate an individual's personal communion with God equally - there's no earthly power to take advantage of in it.

27:59 Fails to consider the difference between the esoteric and exoteric Church, and here conflates them. Another staggering blunder.

Julius Evola is such a postmodern new ager pretending to be traditional. He didn’t get married, no children, no community, no hierarchical obedience to a liturgical order, no understanding of humility and service to one’s community, and most importantly no wisdom concerning love. He is entertaining though!

If you want to live in a world that is not a democracy, you can try Afghanistan. There they worry about "higher issues" and no lowly issues like having a good life and not dying at 30.

Evola was against the role of the Mothers or he deprecated it. Every system of politics is governed by the Tetractys- its astrological interpretation. Anything minus from that will fail . He had good ideas and some that are suspect . I have all his books English translated but have read only parts here and there . A most important critique of Itallian Fascism was its Republic of Salo and its alliance with Nazi Germany. As far as the Modern World I would be careful about lumping everything modern into one pot. I would be interest to know if he was initiated, where and when or not at all. I can't think of any school or Order given his theories except the Left Hand Path . However given that the LHP is against the Sun it could not be that either. The Indian Caste system is another possibility . Carl Jung would call this a era of Darkening using more of a alchemical vocabulary . A nterregnum . The West has gone through several.