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July 12,2014
Carolyn discusses Racial Nationalism in the context of “Blood and Soil” vs the confused ideas coming from Julius Evola that spirit, rather than ethnic substance, determines culture, and that there is such a thing as a “race of the spirit.” Some highlights from this program:
- Evola was a homosexual, a traditionalist and an elitist who never joined the Italian National Fascist Party;
- In his youth, he was attracted to avant-gard art, literature, philosophy and he became a prominent representative of the anti-art "Dada" movement in Italy;
- His later thinking was more in line with with Fascism than National-Socialism, but he was critical of both;
- Evola wrote a great deal on "the metaphysics of sex" in which he held neither romantic love or procreation to be a worthwhile or "noble" purpose;
- Evola believed our world and societies were "devolving" from a high state rather than "evolving" toward a higher state;
- Evola saw rationalism, the Enlightment and science as inferior to ancient "heroic" myths which he recommended as the best role models;
- Carolyn thinks Evola is way over-rated and causes more harm than good - that he should be dropped from the WN curriculum.
Image: This hideous painting by Julius Evola, "La Genetrice dell'universo" (the birth mother of the universe), 1968, reveals his lack of empathy for women - the face is a blank mask. Enlarge