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Yes, I know, the Right complains about “all our disagreements with the Left get pathologized and tagged with a diagnostic term” but here at least the virulence and single-mindedness does suggest something of a syndrome rather than an opinion.
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A similar process of cultural decapitation occurred under the name of “Denazification,” to say nothing of the atrocities and deprivations visited upon Germany in the postwar years: see Thomas Goodrich: Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944–1947 (Sheridan, Colorado: Aberdeen Books, 2010) as well as in the wake of the Iraq War II. The latter purge was explicitly called, half-jokingly, “De-Ba’athification,” and it’s interesting to note that cultural destruction was an explicit element of it. When asked about the destruction of not just Iraq’s cultural heritage but that of the “cradle of Western civilization,” Defense Secretary Rumsfeld shrugged and mused that “‘Freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things[’] . . . Looting, he added, was not uncommon for countries that experience significant social upheaval. ‘Stuff happens,’ Rumsfeld said.” “Rumsfeld on looting in Iraq: ‘Stuff happens’; Administration asking countries for help with security” by Sean Loughlin, CNN Washington Bureau, April 12, 2003, http://
www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/11/sprj.irq.pentagon/
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See generally the work of Wulf Grimmson, and my discussion of it in “A Band Apart: Wulf Grimsson’s Loki’s Way” and my use of it in “‘God, I’m with a heathen.’ The Rebirth of the Männerbund in Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables”; both are reprinted in The Homo & the Negro.
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And by “monotheist” read “Judeo-Christian”; however “anti-modernist” the White Nationalist may be, he tends, as we have seen, to remain a Judeo-Christian at heart; his conversion is only partial and inadequate.
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See Wulf Grimsson, Loki’s Way: The Path of the Sorcerer in Age of Iron, 2nd. ed. (Lulu.com, 2011), p. 7 and p. 89.
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See Julius Evola, Men Among the Ruins, op. cit.
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Op. cit, p. 208. This is the usual displacement of verticality (transcendence) with horizontality (dispersion among the physical states of the world) that is the essential feature of modernity, “progress,” Lebensraum, etc., and is even lauded by propagandists of science or the Renaissance.
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See Erik Davis’s discussion of teenage drug use as a means of escape in his Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (Portland, Or.: Yeti Publishing, 2010), which I reviewed on Counter-Currents, http://www.counter-currents.com/tag/nomad-codes/
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Thus the Judaic fury directed against the SS Order State that was to be the ultimate goal of Himmler; this was the only element of National Socialism that maintained Evola’s interest; see his Notes on the Third Reich, trans. E. Christian Kopff (London: Arktos, 2013). Needless to say, the whole National Socialist project was vitiated from the start by a crypto-Judaic (and downright creepy) obsession with Master Races and “births”—“prole” notions whose “vulgarity” Evola appropriately scorned (see Evola, op. cit., ch. 3); paralleling in miniature the cultural distortion of Western society that we’ve been discussing here.
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Using the patented one-two, heads I win tail you lose Judaic strategy of rigging the debate to include only the false alternative of homophobia vs. gold lamé hot pants.
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See these articles tagged “Jews as a hostile elite” at Occidental Observer: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/category/jews-as-a-hostile-elite/
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And, by contrast, an actual Whitopia, if based on historical knowledge rather than Judaic-approved fantasies, would more closely resemble the camps of the eponymous warriors of Burroughs’ The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead. (New York: Grove, 1971); and before anyone mentions it, let me point out that Burroughs’ Boys make full use of “modern technology” when useful and appropriate (including cloning and time machines).
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Contrary to man-in-the-street biology favored by bloggers of the Right, see James Neill’s The Origins and Role of Same-Sex Relations in Human Societies (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009) and my review/essay thereon (Amazon Kindle Single, 2013).
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After all, a race is, as Steve Sailer puts it, a partially inbred extended family. “A race is a family, and families tend to behave alike. In Ferguson, we’re seeing one kind of behavior—the same kind Darren Wilson faced when he met Michael Brown walking down the middle of the street.”—“Ferguson Fallout—Red Is Not The New Black” by James Fulford, November 27, 2014 (http://www.vdare.
com/articles/the-fulford-file-ferguson-fallout-red-is-not-the-new-black).
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“There is every reason to believe that ‘stone’ is the code-word [in Biblical literature] for beast-man, ape.”—Dr. Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels, Theozoology, or the Science of the Sodomite Apelings and the Divine Electron (originally published 1905; Europa-House, 2004), and available for free online (http://www.american-buddha.com/cult.
theozoology.htm).
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Jack Donovan, I believe, has observed that if most homosexuals weren’t annoying twerps, “‘fag’ wouldn’t be an insult in the first place.”
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See, of course, the title essay of my collection The Homo & the Negro as well as the late Alisdair Clarke’s seminal essay “Paris Shockwaves”: “the blandishments of the Gay-Liberationist-hucksters led us away from our Western civilization, our antecedents; Plato, Hadrian, Michelangelo and Tchaikovsky, turned our folk community into strangers, and deposited us in the heart of the enemy camp,” http://aryanfuturism.blogspot.com/2006/08/paris-shockwaves.html
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“Psychopathology and Racial Self-Hate Among Whites” by Kevin MacDonald, Occidental Observer, October 7, 2014, http://www.
theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/10/psychopathology-and-racial-self-hate-among-Whites/.
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Just as, self-styled “radical” Leftists, who have learned how to recognize what Chomsky, Parenti, or Petras have called “institutional analysis,” are more useful to our cause than “official” Rightists or “conservatives” who have been taught (by Whom?) that they must eschew what they call “conspiracy theories.”
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James Hawes “Tumbling the author myth: Why such anger about my revelations of Kafka’s interest in pornography? His legacy could stand a little debunking,” The Guardian, Friday, August 29, 2008, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/aug/29/franzkafka.civilliberties
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Louis Bayard, “How Kafka-esque is Kafka? The Czech writer has become the prophet of our absurd era, but a new book intends to strip the author of his saintly reputation,” Salon, Friday, August 1, 2008, http://www.salon.com/2008/08/01/kafka/
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Apparently a typical German occupation, shared by Dietrich Eckhart; see my review of Hitler’s Mentor, http://www.counter-currents.com/2014/05/hitlers-mentor/
[←143]
Scott Horton, “In Pursuit of Kafka’s Porn Cache: Six questions for James Hawes,” Harper’s, August 19, 2008, http://harpers.org/blog/
2008/08/in-pursuit-of-kafkas-porn-cache-six-questions-for-james-hawes/
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See again my review of Eckhart in note 3 above.
[←145]
Seinfeld, Episode no. 136 “The Soul Mate” (Original air date 26 Sept 1996), http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheSoulMate.html
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“The Kafka Myth,” http://www.readysteadybook.com/Article. aspx?page=kafkamyth
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Speaking of which, Mark Anderson’s Kafka’s Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siècle (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995) has a similar agenda, but limited to revealing Kafka the Dandy, almost
a metrosexual.
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Having already pooh-poohed the “sexual explicitness” of Houellebecq (“Michel Houellebecq’s Sexual Anti-Utopia,” below), I may not be the right person to make the call.
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One senses, over and above the log-rolling, that Hawes wishes Kafka had not written in German at all, and, like the supposedly resigned prisoners at Auchwitz, had willingly entered the ghetto of Czech literature. Or perhaps, Yiddish—he did cultivate a taste for the Yiddish theatre—or even, dare one hope, Hebrew—thus assuaging beforehand that annoying fact, that the super-talented Jewish State has produced not one writer—or any other artist—of any distinction. Perhaps Veblen was right, and the Jew thrives only on adversity? See my “The Eternal Outsider: Veblen on The Gentleman and the Jew” in The Eldritch Evola.
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“No other writer’s work suffers from this kind of prejudgment” Oh? I can think of dozens: Hitler, Goebbels, Rosenberg . . .
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Hawes is such a believer in the Church of Holocaustianity that he actually absolves the Red Army of “whatever else they may be guilty of” in recognition of their “liberation” of the “death camps.” Millions of dead and living though brutalized German and “liberated” Slavic civilians might beg to differ, although I suppose it’s a sign of progress that he even acknowledges the “whatever else.”
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“In pursuit of Kafka’s Porn Cache,” note 4 above.
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Ibid.
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See most notably Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul, trans. Joscelyn Godwin and Constance Fontana (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2001), especially “Part 2: In the World Where God Is Dead.” Interestingly, Evola admits in his autobiography that two of his adolescent guides were Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde, with the latter suggesting a connection to Kafka through his Beardsley porn cache; see The Path of Cinnabar (London: Arktos, 2009), p. 8. Evola also names Otto Weininger, who also greatly influenced Kafka as well.
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Sander L. Gilman, “Everyman’s Kafka,” Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation, no. 35, Winter 5769/2009, http://azure.org.il/include/print.
php?id=487
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“One Night in Bangkok,” from Chess by Tim Rice and Benny Andersson.
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Michel Houellebecq, H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (San Francisco: Believer Books, 2005).
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Now republished in The Eldritch Evola … & Others.
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Although not, like Thomas Ligotti, the same city of birth, college, and first job.
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His narrator from the future laconically notes that “Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, and Deleuze” have fallen into “global ridicule” and “suddenly foundered, after decades of inane reverence.”
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“Confused extremes: Platform, Michel Houellebecq’s follow-up to Atomised [a.k.a. The Elementary Particles]” by Anna Lynskey, http://
www.oxonianreview.org/issues/1-2/1-2-5.htm
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“Death Dreams” by Rob Horning, http://thenewinquiry.com/
essays/death-dreams/
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1961; see especially “Part Two: In the World Where God is Dead.”
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The title of the UK edition of the book.
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Of course, some on the Right would be fine with that: “Ben Jeffery makes a comment on this, saying: ‘It is not that Houellebecq is a reactionary writer exactly. For example, it is never suggested that religious faith is the solution to his character’s dilemmas; the books are all resolutely atheist.’ But I guess Jeffery has never heard of the likes of Mencius Moldbug, neoreactionary atheist . . .” Craig Hickman, “Ben Jeffery’s Anti-Matter: Michel Houellebeq and Depressive Realism,” May 19, 2013, http://darkecologies.com/2013/05/19/ben-jefferys-anti-matter-michel-houellebeq-and-depressive-realism/
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Suzie Mackenzie, Interview with Michel Houellebecq, The Guardian, August 31, 2002.
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“I don’t begin by wanting to be provocative exactly, no. But when I realize that what I say is provoking, I don’t change it because of obstinacy. It’s up to me. Nobody asked me to say it again.”—The Guardian, August 31, 2002.
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“Yet Houellebecq possesses one quality in which the Left Bank existentialists of the ’40s and ’50s were notably lacking, namely, humor. Houellebecq’s fiction is horribly funny. Often the joke is achieved by a po-faced conjunction of the grandiloquent and the thumpingly mundane.”—“Futile Attraction: Michel Houellebecq’s Lovecraft” by John Banville, Bookforum, April/May 2005, http://www.bookforum.com/
archive/apr_05/banville.html
[←169]
“Now the wife and I are going to have the sex.”—MST3k, Experiment #0612—The Starfighters.
[←170]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomised#Plot_summary
[←171]
“Paris Journal: Noel Contendere: A political impasse gives way to a literary scandal” by Adam Gopnick, New Yorker, Dec. 28, 1998 & Jan. 4, 1999, p. 61.
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Such as Jeff Frankas’s De-World, http://www.counter-currents.com/2014/05/jeff-frankas-de-world/and Ann Sterzinger’s The Talkative Corpse, http://www.counter-currents.com/2014/04/the-talkative-corpse-a-love-letter/
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Das Glasperlenspiel, 1943; English as Magister Ludi (1949) and The Glass Bead Game (1969).
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If you have a kindle, you can download the whole Introduction as a “sample” from Amazon.
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Imagine American Idol, although Hesse couldn’t think of anything more degrading than crossword puzzles and popularizing literary biographies.
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Music, of course, properly understood, is mathematics. For this, and the Traditional doctrine by which musical systems are methods of creation rather than arbitrary systems of pleasant noise, see the material presented in my essay “Our Wagner, Only Better: Harry Partch, The Wild Boy of American Music” in The Eldritch Evola . . . & Others.
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See Guénon’s The Reign of Quantity, Chapter 9, “The Twofold Significance of Anonymity.”
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“Our people have forgotten, they have been made to forget. For centuries. But I have learned how it once was. Families. Brothers and sisters. There was happiness . . . there was love.”—Teenagers from Outer Space (1959).
[←179]
Theodore Ziolkowski explores the remarkable parallels in his “Foreword” to the 1969 translation.
[←180]
Alan Taylor, “Little Miss Imperfect,” Sunday Herald, January 12, 2003.
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http://jamesjomeara.blogspot.com/2010/05/sunic-on-sunday-tom-sunic-has-great.html
[←182]
Tomislav Sunić, Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right, third edition (London: Arktos, 2011).
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http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/04/radical-pelosi-elections-shouldnt-matter-as-much-as-they-do-video/
[←184]
See my “Of Costner, Corpses, and Conception: Mother’s Day Meditations on The Untouchables and The Big Chill,” in The Homo & the Negro.
[←185]
http://takimag.com/article/fuck_the_public_sector
[←186]
Nelle Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock) interviewed in Infamous (2006).
[←187]
Outside the Law School Scam, “Alternative Summer Reading for Pre-Law Students,” http://outsidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2015/
07/alternative-summer-reading-for-pre-law.html
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