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Umberto Eco on Fascist Perennialism

  “The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition. Traditionalism is of course much older than fascism. Not only was it typical of counter-revolutionary Catholic thought after the French revolution, but it was born in the late Hellenistic era, as a reaction to classical Greek rationalism. In the Mediterranean basin, people of different religions (most of them indulgently accepted by the Roman Pantheon) started dreaming of a revelation received at the dawn of human history. This revelation, according to the traditionalist mystique, had  remained for a long time concealed under the veil of forgotten languages – in Egyptian hieroglyphs, in the Celtic runes, in the scrolls of the little known religions of Asia. 

This new culture had to be syncretistic. Syncretism is not only, as the dictionary says, "the combination of different forms of belief or practice"; such a combination must tolerate contradictions. Each of the original messages contains a silver of wisdom, and whenever they seem to say different or incompatible things it is only because all are alluding, allegorically, to the same primeval truth. 

As a consequence, there can be no advancement of learning. Truth has been already spelled out once and for all, and we can only keep interpreting its obscure message.

One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements. The most influential theoretical source of the theories of the new Italian right, Julius Evola, merged the Holy Grail with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, alchemy with the Holy Roman and Germanic Empire. The very fact that the Italian right, in order to show its open-mindedness, recently broadened its syllabus to include works by De Maistre, Guenon, and Gramsci, is a blatant proof of syncretism. 

If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores, are labeled as New Age, you can find there even Saint Augustine who, as far as I know, was not a fascist. But combining Saint Augustine and Stonehenge – that is a symptom of Ur-Fascism.”

--Umberto Eco, Ur Fascism

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i dont love you (antiplatonic)

I don’t love you too bud 😭

#I know James... ur obsessed with me #and you daydream abt holding my hand #and u miss the sound of my voice... #I know but it’s nice hearing u say it ... thanks for telling me 😭 #answered

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-Tag Game-

Thanks to @takeccare for tagging me!

Rules: Answer 17 questions and tag 21 blogs

Nickname: i don’t have one

Star Sign: i have religious OCD so i’ll pass on this one

Height: tall

Last film I watched: lady bird

Favourite musician: hozier

Song stuck in my head: St. Jude by florence + the machine

Other blogs: don’t have one!

Do I get asks: occasionally! poetry prompts are always welcome btw!

Blogs following: 57

What I’m wearing: a t-shirt and jeans. not that exciting right now

Dream job: a professor of art history in some scandinavian country specifically because i love the cold

Dream trip: iceland

Play any instruments: piano and clarinet

Languages: english, español, français (that’s in order of fluency & in the order i learned them in); french is my favorite of the three, but english is my native language.

Favourite food: lasagna

Favourite song: borderline by tove styrke

Random Fact: an author i met once used my name for a character in their book

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Bob Cluness -An Esoteric Menagerie: The Weird & Eerie, Slenderman, CCRU, Accelerationism, Chaos Magic(k) and Digital Technology

Part 1

Part 2

#anti platonism #antiplatonism #marx and mysticism #the digital age #digital #karl marx #postmodernism #mark fisher #ccru #hyperstition #western esotericism #western esoteric tradition #podcast #rejected religion #chaos magick #magic #the internet #Frenchphilosophers #Accelerationism #Cybernetics #Hyperstition #Technology #Ccru #Slenderman #Neoliberalism #Chaosmagick #Culturalhistory #Fiction #New Age #Cyberpunk

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I conjure you, my brethren, REMAIN TRUE TO THE EARTH, and believe not those who speak unto you of superearthly hopes! Poisoners are they, whether they know it or not.

Friedrich Nietzsche, prologue to Thus Spake Zarathustra

#Nietzsche #friedrich nietzsche #antiplatonism #immanentism #thus spake zarathustra #history of religion #History of Philosophy #quotes #marx and mysticism #masters of suspicion #western esotericism

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Throughout his struggle with the language he had inherited Darwin strove to renew the fullness of things in themselves and to avoid the platonic scheme which makes things insufficient substitutes for their own idea. He persistently controverts all attempts to distinguish meaning from matter.

-- Gillian Beer, Dawin’s Plots

Art: darwin evolving Collage by LOUI JOVER

#Gillian Beer #darwin #Charles Darwin #darwin's plots #charles darwin and the hermetic tradition #Tree Of Life #hermeticism #Plato #antiplatonism #mind #mind and matter #meaning #Hermeneutics

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Stephen Jay Gould on Darwin’s Deeper Significance

 The modern synthesis works in its appropriate arena, but the same Darwinian processes of mutation and selection may operate in strikingly different ways at higher domains in a hierarchy of evolutionary levels. I think that we may hope for uniformity of causal agents, hence a single, general theory with a Darwinian core. But we must reckon with a multiplicity of mechanisms that preclude the explanation of higher level phenomena by the model of adaptive gene substitution favored for the lowest level. 

At the basis of all this ferment lies nature's irreducible complexity. Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways. Their complexity of form entails a host of functions incidental to whatever pressures of natural selection superintended the initial construction. Their intricate and largely unknown pathways of embryonic development guarantee that simple inputs (minor changes in timing, for example) may be translated into marked and surprising changes in output (the adult organism). 

Charles Darwin chose to close his great book with a striking comparison that expresses this richness. He contrasted the simpler system of planetary motion, and its result of endless, static cycling, with the complexity of life and its wondrous and unpredictable change through the ages:

 “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”

-- Stephen Jay Gould, prologue to The Panda’s Thumb

Art: Darwin and the Phylogenetic Tree by Invictus-arts

#stephen jay gould #Gould #the panda's thumb #darwin #Charles Darwin #evolution #analogy #as above so below #principle of analogy #antiplatonism #pneuma #soma pneumatikon #complexity #marx and mysticism #life and mind #evolutionary biology #evolutionary theory #biosemiotics