Opinion of Julius Evola

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Vile. Literally a minor unsympathetic character in a novel I'm writing.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Vile. Literally a minor unsympathetic character in a novel I'm writing.

What, really?  I'd love to read that.

It's hard to explain without several hundred pages of context but basically a fictional Italian politician who's been (semi-mendaciously) presenting herself as a sort of quasi-Gaullist integralist comes to power, invites him and a bunch of other far-right figures (Diana Mitford being the only other one named) to a dinner party, and proposes a toast that combines (I hope) the best aspects of Khrushchev's Secret Speech and O-Ren Ishii's speech in Kill Bill.

Also, Traditionalism > parochialism.

I don't know how to take this sentence.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Also, Traditionalism > parochialism.

I don't know how to take this sentence.

Traditionalism: "The high cultures and esoteric traditions of the world contribute variously to the same path of enlightenment."

Parochialism: "My cultural heritage is unique and is worth preserving unchanged because it makes me unique."

Okay. Yeah, parochialism's not good, but Evola's (self-proclaimed) positioning along this spectrum was among other things a cover for his complicity in far greater evils.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Leftextreme idiot.

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Have a closer look at E.VOEGELIN!

Voegelin's an interesting, challenging thinker in many respects, but if he thinks Julius Evola is left-wing then he's gone off the reservation.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

In fairness to the guy, with a name like "Baron Julius Evola" he kind of had to become a creepy mega-HP.