![]() Born in Italy in 1898, he was raised Catholic - a belief system he was to reject early in life - and later fought as a young man in World War I. If there is an intellectual movement that holds such an attainment close to its heart, it is Traditionalism, a once obscure school of twentieth-century thought among whose key thinkers is the oft-discussed Evola. ![]() Wouldn’t we all like to see the world with fifth-century eyes? To have rituals that bind us to eternity, to spans deeper and truths larger than ourselves, and to not have to commute and wait for things to load and feel our lives to be small, disconnected slivers? A Made-Up Tradition ![]() I thought about this line a lot as I sat doing the emails and admin that make up so much of contemporary life and listening to nasal American crypto-fascist men stumble over the words of Julius Evola on YouTube. Breaking from the reverie, he says that in this he sees, briefly, the world with “5th century eyes,” a world “disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.” ![]() At one point in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, our protagonist, a shiftless Californian in search of class and culture at a sequestered, elite East Coast College, talks about the feeling he gets when he studies Ancient Greek late into the night. ![]()
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