The Philosophy of Julius Evola Revolt Against the Modern World Lecture 1

[@some1els3]

I just saw a documentary on Yukio Mishima and the phrase "How can the emperor lower himself to be merely human?" from his poem "Voices of the Heroic Dead", (in the context that Hirohito was forced by the US army to publicly deny his divine character and thus desecrated the deaths of the kamikaze fighters) resonates a lot with your description of this book. Thanks so much for this!

[@theodor320]

Wow, we have really regressed as a society when you need a disclaimer doing a book review..

[@mundaneallaround]

🙈🙉🙊

[@jaydwy8069]

Yes

[@naturesquad9174]

Didnt really need it, it just helps sell the mystique

[@eg4848]

...I mean there used to be book burnings and banned books and stuff I think you can handle a disclaimer

[@Megaultraawesome99]

The death of Socrates, the torture and trial of Galileo, 20th century book burnings and Nazi degenerate art, then a single youtuber having a 20 second disclaimer in his video that the book doesn't represent his views. I don't see the regression here

[@csarebel8657]

Thank you for the explanation. Evola can be difficult to follow.

[@RandyQuaker]

I applaud your understated comment.

[@-HughJass-]

It was a really hard read tbh. Incredibly boring, lots of fluff, felt like he didn't just get to the point.

[@nerodryt]

@@-HughJass- currently reading it now in german. Need a lot of patience reading it. He takes his time to get to the point. Although it still is very informative i think.

[@polish_american5736]

@Josepi Groyper groyp check?

[@zuthula3847]

Dude I learned about Evola from your videos and I'm seriously so grateful for it. Your lectures on Ted K are also top tier. Have you ever thought about doing a talk with Keith Woods? I don't know if there's any overlap between your philosophy or anything but I think that would be an interesting conversation. Anyway I hope you are doing well and thank you again for your fantastic work.

[@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329]

Thanks for watching, I appeared on his podcast back in 2020

[@paco6439]

Thankyou for the explanation. Currently reading Evola, I wasn't sure if i was getting the overall messages in each chapter but as you're explaining them I feel like I'm on the right track. I do feel like he is someone that be studied multiple times as some of the information doesn't always integrate only reading him once.

[@ashleyXR94]

Greatly appreciated. Keep going! It's heard! Those who have ears hear loud and clear.

[@darkevola7975]

Oh my god, thanks so much for this. I literally didn't understand about 60 - 70% of the book. Very new to philosophy itself.

[@DarkFunk1337]

Fantastic, you hit the nail on the head with that "disclaimer". I looked for some analysis videos to guide me last year when I started reading and was disappointed to see the same "meme" among academics again and again with no actual discussion. Looking forward to going through this series!

[@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329]

Thanks for watching. More videos on Evola to come

[@villiannewyork]

Props for discussing something that a lot of people wouldn't have the nuts to touch. Its a complex read so thanks for doing this.

[@ballshippin3809]

One of my personal goals is to become as based as possible.

[@justinfowler5761]

This book will give you the proper foundation

[@jassingh8232]

Southern India is beautiful, hope you're treated with kindness in our country.

[@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329]

Agreed, absolutely treated well in God's Own Country

[@spweasel]

Intriguing. Looking forward . . .

[@mariagreenleaf7066]

Spengzler’s Decline of the West has been done to death, but I would love to hear your research and take on the topic as well, especially .. I Read Evola’s book, and some Miguel Serrano when their translations were beginning to come out of the Italian and Spanish translations, maybe thirty years ago back in the 90s. He was a dyed in the wool Fascist, and a absolute monarchist, but a genius and a head of his time. Greer would have a ton to say about Evola me thinks with the entire connection to ritual magic and hermetic ideas..

[@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329]

Sounds great, I'll see if I can do a video on Decline of the West sometime

[@Gnomelander1400]

Needed this more than ever, thx

[@luswyr8254]

nice video, i am not really unsure what is meant at 15:27 about the founding father, feminine earth dieties and fire as a symbol. This stuff can easily get a bit mumbo jumbo-y but would love to understand and hope you can explain in more simple terms for us non philosophical folk :)

[@luswyr8254]

i.e. could you 'dumb down' his thought a little more ;)

[@bilboblaggins7659]

It's not mumbo jumbo. If you can't understand straight away in simple terms then perhaps there is some deeper meaning.

[@Aquilaris]

Very complex and certainly hard to fully understand. The pagan element evident in most of his writings prevents me, a Traditionalist Catholic, to consider myself as an adept of Evola's ideas. But MANY of them, that did not involve directly any sort of Anti-Christian Esotericism, namely his critics about the Secularist, "Progress"ivist, Mecanized, Nihilist, and Pessimistic Modern World is what fascinates me and makes him certainly someone I admire and take my ideas from, to some degree. I will watch the rest of the videos some time soon, but this one episode has been great, buddy.

[@csarebel8657]

Aquilaris almost as if the Catholic Church/religion was designed specifically to counter Pagan Europe

[@Aquilaris]

@@csarebel8657 Christianity, which began by only having the Catholic denomination, was not "designed", it was God Given. It countered every other Religion, being It the only True one, including, yes, the Pagan Religion of the Roman Empire, the Pagans from Scandinavia, etc. - But Jvd41sm as well, a luciferian Religion from the Region where Christianity was born in.

[@guilhermebiem582]

@viyolkl xyòn correct, but you might not be able to fully comprehend this

[@Aquilaris]

@Il Nazionalista Damn, that's too bad, fren, you didn't even post anything too "dangerous" on your last channel, imo.

[@Aquilaris]

@Il Nazionalista I got it, yeah, they fear the memes, especially, because they can be a vehicle for our message, via humour, unconsciously.

[@citizenoftheninthdivision]

Or you could watch Philosphicat's video series on this book.

[@aaroncarmack231]

Great stuff

[@ricoa7316]

Is this part of the groyper movement

[@goethe2447]

@chcpr1 No, he is a perrenial philosophy. This is not fascism. You are a loser.

[@goethe2447]

@chcpr1 Read more

[@fergal2424]

Lololol

[@mrfinish6068]

You came to the right neighborhood, fren

[@L0rd0fTh3N3rdz]

@@goethe2447 Evola referred to himself as a "super fascist"

[@archer_0495]

Point 10. As a Christian traditionalist I must point out the parallels with the Gospel around the king crossing the water, then ascending the mountain. Christianity is full of esoteric knowledge and symbolism, just as other 'pagan' religions are.

[@ampersand6375]

We don't burn books; we refuse to print them and distribute it.

[@mattfletcher9080]

Chad are you still looking further afield for work? will you be moving from India for work? How about your writing and thinking? Has your fault writing practice altered any or do you still have some reletive freedom of time to continue on with your work? Thanks for this latest iteration on these fairly non standard thinkers.

[@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329]

Hey there thanks I'm currently waiting to get a visa to work in India. It's a long process which may take up to another year. In the meantime, I am just enjoying doing some small scale farming work on my land, presenting at conferences here and there (got another one next week), writing the books, and helping out around the house. I feel that the writing is always getting better. I am finishing up my next book and should have it released early next week (250 pages or so) and I feel that I've learned a lot in retrospect from the first couple and the mistakes I admittedly made in writing them. I feel that writing on your own is the highest ideal- NOTHING ELSE will ever give you as much freedom of thought. Attending conferences, graduate school, teaching as a professor, all of these will fall short of this. I personally never felt satisfied with my education, or even with my teaching, as I always felt it could be done better in some other medium

[@Phobos1483]

Amazing video! Thanks for your work

[@Unbruto]

Fantastic video, thank you

[@nickcove]

Only a chad does this

[@Jimmylad.]

You kinda sound like Homa Simpson, nice video btw

[@Phobos1483]

The degenerated mind can not grasp these concepts, but is bound by the materialistic needs and addictions. He must be reborn of Spirit to be liberated from their materialistic worries and cravings to be saved from an exponentially degenerating state of mind.

[@Confucius_76]

fascinating stuff!

[@lordwolfgangjosephuskaiser6778]

This man Julius Evola, Gustave le Bon, Will Durant, Arnold Toynbee, Leopold von Ranke, Joseph Meyer, Thomas Carlyle, Joseph Campbell, Viktor Frankl, Erich Fromm, Max Weber, Alfred Weber, Karl Mannheim, Christoph Wulf, Christopher Hallpike, Rüdiger Safranski, Volker Gerhardt, Rudolf Steiner, Peter Sloterdijk, David Engels, Thomas Wangenheim, John Dewey, Ismael Mazhar, Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger, Armin Mohler, Ernst Cassirer, Hermann Schmitz, Hermann Hesse, Edmund Husserl, Wilhelm Dilthey, Friedrich Nietzsche, Muhammad Iqbal, Gustav von Grunebaum, Ali Schariaati, Ali al Uardi, George Tarabischi, George Sabra, Mustafa Hidschazi, Bourhan Ghaliun, Abdur Razzaq Ied, Abdur Rahman Badaui, Ahmad Fuad al Ahuani, Ulrich Rudolph, Gerhard Hartung, Kurt Flasch, Bernard Lewis, Annemarie Schimmel, Gustav Flügel, Oswald Spengler, Thomas Kuhn, Michel Foucault, Karl Popper, George Frazer, Jan and Aleida Assmann, Carl Gustav Jung, Alfred Adler, Sigmund Freud etc. are the most great and amazing geniuses in our modern and postmodern world. Thank you very much 🌹🌹🌹

[@imarobot2415]

Julius Evola is fucking based is a shame that he is so hated among the right.

[@mrsmiley4842]

Re ch 9: I'm raelly having difficulty understanding evolas views on race. From what I understand, race is a necessity for an empire, but if that empire then has sufficient connection to the spiritual domain, then race loses its importance?

[@latitudeselongitudes1932]

Race is important to him. What he emphasizes is that degeneration begins in the spiritual, then affects the soul and ultimately the body or race. There is a qualitative hierarchy and the decay process is descending and not ascending in his view

[@Dunge0n]

No. Just look at the different rates in interracial assault and rape statistics.

[@QuillPGall]

as a leninist, i found reading this video a really fascinating and thought-provoking work, and while there’s hardly anything i agreed with, it’s still a book worth engaging with seriously and not as the strawman of his very being. after reading it, i figured i’d check out these lectures

[@PLAYBOY_WASTELAND]

Same

[@jorrmolonze7172]

Why are you a Leninist

[@punchface3000]

do doctrine of awakening!

[@blackphillip564]

We're watching you very closely, Chadwick. We except that you pay your student loan debt!

[@aslekay]

You'll get more viewers

[@tonlemmon9146]

Audiobook?

[@timoscholts2042]

nice!

[@panchopanza4008]

All this replies and comments are more confusing than the book. People, people...

[@johnpeterson2987]

This is over complicated. Spend a lot of time alone with no technology or indulgence and you'll figure it out.

[@Knaeben]

agreed

[@lordwolfgangjosephuskaiser6778]

Can you make a Video how Julius Evola did know and discover how the fascists were Anti conservative and Anti culture and anti traditional? How did he know that in a time that the most of conservative intellectuals even such as Oswald Spengler did support the fascists?

[@marcobelli6856]

Because he was really Close to Himmler Mussolini and others powerful people he frequented those circles and Seen with his Eyes. Also he is artisticratic in Spirit fascism is more a thing of the Proletarians and the masses. Monarchism ≠ Fascism

[@avoidbeing]

Is there some sort of an explanation for why you sound like Amy Farrah Fowler?

[@mohanpanickerpanicker8767]

Hey did you say you're in southern India. What do you do here? Or are you on tour perhaps?

[@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329]

That's right I've lived there for the past two years

[@mohanpanickerpanicker8767]

​@@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329 I was just looking for Evola, because his views are interesting to say the least, when I stumbled onto your channel. I'm from southern India too. Just finishing my BA in Philo from Kerala University.

[@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329]

Excellent is that in Kochi?

[@mohanpanickerpanicker8767]

@@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329 Correct

[@RandyQuaker]

Chad A. Haag Peak Oil Philosophy --southern Indiana is rough bro, stay safe😉

[@mememan8503]

Shout out to Mvndi, I’m banned but I have an alt on their

[@goonholiday656]

Reject Modernity

[@franek_izerski]

Low volume.

[@arpitbharti6245]

I understood nothing!

[@aek12]

Professional Thinker. What?

[@thomasmckeon9683]

I still am so confused

[@Politictrolerandenthusiast]

Same

[@Catlover-nb5qp]

My Twitter account has been blocked. Will contact you after my presentation on 14th once I restore it

[@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329]

Sorry to hear it man. Let me guess: criticized Pakistan?

[@Catlover-nb5qp]

@@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329 No. There was a white woman who was banged on the floor by a man and I said that this guy should be beaten mercilessly like a dog, so it was the reason I was blocked for sometime.

[@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329]

Yea that about sums up how ridiculous the social media censoring has become

[@Catlover-nb5qp]

@@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329 do you know about that incident?

[@chadahaagphilosophychannel7329]

Did it happen in Kerala? Ukrainian woman?

[@TuxedoTalk]

I'm reading his works as an anarchist I have to say that his justifications for traditional authority are no less ridiculous than the ones for democracy. At least they have the benefits of more or less working for thousands of years. You could argue it's just the natural state of man.

[@heathenpride7931]

Yeah Democracy totally working right now

[@ObeySilence]

When you wanna be edgy be a anti-modernist instead of being just against postmodernism. That´s the new old shit now.

[@Marcus-sk2xf]

what

[@panchopanza4008]

I'm just against idiotic, disgusting, no morals "modernity". I call it..umm.."post have-some-damn shameism". Decadence will end us. Oh wait, we have smart phones, that should help. Oh Lord!

[@Knaeben]

Those ideas didn't originate with Jordan Peterson. Go to the original sources to source ideas...

[@tonytomato100]

As an anarchist, I've never heard of a philosophy i disagreed with more. But free speech is something that must be stood for regardless

[@tonytomato100]

@Edward Turner if people can't be trusted to govern themselves, I find giving power to an individual or group to be less trust worthy. Inherintly I am objected to any sence of authority that you didn't make a calculated desision to follow. And counter to Evola, I don't think a person can be superior to others by the merit of their birth alone. I find anarchism, or at least much smaller nations to be a better for of governance as it makes it easier for each individual to be heard

[@tonytomato100]

@Lill Frigg I feel like dismissing anarchy due to a group of unorganized people being unable to turn a few city blocks into a self sufficient community in a month is a little rediculos. Also, that was a protest to lower police presence and funding, that clearly is something that can only be achieved through the current system because the current system runs the police. These weren't anarchist, they were socdems at most

[@tonytomato100]

@Lill Frigg On the snarky comeback, China says that they're communist but function more similar to fascist countries, so identifying with something doesn't nessesarily make it true. But on the points you made, I don't actually disagree with you. As we stand now, a true anarchist society isn't possible, just like how Somalia wouldn't function properly if we suddenly instated a liberal democracy like we have in the west. I'm of the thought that most of these political ideologies that people hold are a bit outdated and not adapted for how local cultures have developed. I'll come at this from the best perspective I have, as someone living on the west coast of Canada. 1. Culture is local, I have less in common with someone from Manitoba than I have with most people of the PNW. A reason being is climate and geography. People with access to rainforest and mountains tend to develop cultures around those things, snow and flatland likewise. This leads me to the idea that modern nation states are far more vast than need be, with central governments too powerful. Local governance is better 2. I'm born and raised in the new world, race is not as tightly related to identity as it is in the old world. All my friends here are from all different backgrounds but are still very culturally similar due to growing up in the same area. Culture is a shared mindset (roughly) and they develop and change according to what's available and the roots that were layed before. Due to this I don't nessesarily care for borders in a broad sence, it would be up to the community who they accept and share with. 3. Chaz was doomed to fail from it's inception, it's geography and limited size wouldn't allow for any self sufficient community of any kind Those are just a few points but if you're down to have a good faith discussion I'm more than willing to hear you out and answer any questions. Being a blind ideologue is stupid for any "side", everyone wants the best for the people around them at the least

[@realitytransurfer8881]

I consider myself an anarchist and I like his philosophy. I think that you do not understand Ebola.

[@realitytransurfer8881]

@Euroicism Anarchism have nothing to do with communism or globalism.

[@shodanxx]

Frankly, that all sounds like just a guy trying to justify all the hierarchies in which he is dominant, to protect them and to also empower those that would benefit him, such as monarchy and aristocracies. It is full of Evola's baseless values judgement like "the worship of feminine earth deities is another degeneration from the ideal of tradition", just spilled out there like a grounded oil tanker

[@hatejethro1164]

Well, it is, just take a look at your average feminist.

[@volvaheidrbores663]

The all mother is way more than just the earth, she's the sole creator, this is the deepest secret. Evola knew. Ur just jealous of the Divine Feminine and women in general. Evola is amazing. Only perverts reject him and the mother!

[@targitausrithux2320]

Psychic AumBar Bores Talk about bullshitting yourself A prime example of a “feminine” religion or “spiritual” set of beliefs would be modern day Christianity.... a literal perversion of its past self which was less effeminate

[@Marcus-sk2xf]

Measure the average happiness of those living in traditional hierarchy vs those living under a feminist earth deity.

[@Confucius_76]

that's a very materialistic way of looking at it

[@santosd6065]

Holy fucking hell. Thank you for saving me the trouble of actually reading this third rate bullshit. The problem with fascist literature is not that it's offensive, or shocking or anything like that... it's more that it's so trite, trivial and devoid of any kind of insight.

[@Solar_Legionary]

Nah, Evola is a great philosopher.

[@santosd6065]

@@Solar_Legionary Yeah... halfway through "Revolt Against the Modern World" right now. The man is a total goofball. Reminds me of Jordan Peterson. I can see why the fascists kept him around but didn't really take him seriously

[@xelm_]

@@santosd6065 feel sorry for you. even for myself there are many points that i lack to fully understand but one thing i do is the fact that you & many other people these days refuse to even consider other statements regardless if it pertains to you or not. yelling & screaming does nothing for nobody. casual civil conversation is key. lighten up.

[@santosd6065]

@@xelm_ LOL. I'm not screaming, Im actually pretty easy going. By the way, I've since read Evola and he's hilarious. Kind of like Jordan Peterson... if JP was coherent and not a junkie. The basic argument is: Monarchy and aristocracy are great, democracy is yucky, pathetic and disgusting. Most people are slobs, who'd be better off if they accepted their subordination to their moral superiors. So basically, Nietzsche regurgitated, with a heavy dose of mythology and dweeby "angry teenage nerd" angst. Apologize by the sarcasm, it's just how I write, don't take it too seriously.

[@xelm_]

@@santosd6065 no need to apologize, i appreciate the response & i like that you stated your point of view. i do agree with you on some points. hope your day is going well :)

[@aion5837]

'The only thing that exists are material stuff'. Utter rubbish. Maths exists. It could be argued that maths brings 'things' into existence. Also, if you talk about existence how can you exclude 'time' and 'space'. What is your academic antecedence? I was just wondering because you're using the term 'lecture'. Are you expert in Social Anthropology? Because the claims you are making about ancient cultures are non-sensical.

[@studdude100]

Maths are actually quite physical. Math describes a process or thing that goes on. It is akin to the solubility of salt or the growth of a child. To quote Wittegenstein “it is not a thing yet it is not nothing.” Math is similar in that it is a descriptor of a process or quantity. It doesn’t create anything.

[@henlofren7321]

@@studdude100 Not only that, but even pure math without any known application is still nothing but the expression of physical neurons of someone's brain. Even spiritual beings are nothing but representations of a physical state of matter.

[@zuthula3847]

He was literally saying that materialism is the philosophical doctrine of TODAY. He never said he was a materialist. Evola certainly was not.

[@dehistoriapisciumfish7639]

Could a fascist please explain why anyone would be a fascist? I don’t see any appeal

[@altvibr]

Pragmatism

[@dehistoriapisciumfish7639]

Vaint Wouldn’t that be just any dictatorship though? And also, I think dictatorships generally are less efficient in the long run because how are you going to see the people’s opinion off you, and if you are a bad dictator it’s difficult to get rid of you. And democracies (generally) are very successful and dictatorships generally have a lot of cruelty and suffering. So creating a more horrible state that doesn’t even seem to practically work better (and often works downright worse) than a democracy just seems dumb. Also feels like fascism demands constant war (at least Germany, Japan and Italy) to function. What’s smart about democracy is that a leader is more or less forced to do what people want if they want to stay in power. And the only reasonable purpose of a country is to provide for its people. So democracy just seems better

[@bog6530]

​@@dehistoriapisciumfish7639 The video is an introduction to Evola(not a fascist),don't expect people here to be too well read I'm not a fascist either but here we go >I think dictatorships generally are less efficient Neo-liberal Capitalism is extremely efficient and that's not a good thing,this channel (Chad Haag) has videos on Ted K(he is very basic) and Ellul(clearly leftist christian anarchist technoskeptic) You should read their works,videos and comment sections aren't able to express points of view like books are A fascist economy is a corporatist (not really what it sounds like) economy,it might be more efficient but it's never going to come back because it is associated with violent regimes. >And democracies (generally) are very successful Efficient? Materialistic societies might seem succesful since they are the product and main producers(today) of progress,but progress (if nothing stops it) can only lead to a complete technological dystopia,either the total genocide of the human race,or just ''enslaving'' it (If we don't take mysticism into consideration). Ted and Ellul come to mind again here again. Traditionalists like Guenon,Evola or Schuon also understand that ''progress'' is just decline. >and dictatorships generally have a lot of cruelty and suffering. -If there is no God everything is permisible -Fyodor Dostoevsky This applies to everythig,even something as extreme as child rape One could easily enjoy all that cruelty. An atheist or agnostic cannot possibly claim a regime is ''objectively evil'',it's just his opinion. Secular morality is a scam,it's made up,and I don't take it seriously,sorry liberals. The Traditionalist view of morality isn't exactly ''objective morality''(they are parrenialists) but also quite distinct from moral relativism,I'm not going to explain any further. > And the only reasonable purpose of a country is to provide for its people. This has no meaning and is based upon nothing ,Nietzsche would be relevant here,he clearly hates people who ''want to go back'' but Traditionalist authors are still post-Nietzsche authors anyways. KZbin is filled with pseudo-intellectuals who get angry at everything,and redditors trying to ''gotcha'' those people,so I probably won't reply to anything else,it's a waste of time and the majority of people willing to reply to youtube comments don't read. At best I might recommend a few anti-democratic authors

[@altvibr]

@@dehistoriapisciumfish7639 seeming better is all relative, at the end of the day when the bombs drop on school children on the other side of the world is that real democracy? Direct rule is actually much more successful than you think; ex. FDR effectively banned the opposition for 12 years from doing anything while he enacted a plan to bring America back from the depression.

[@maleexile9053]

I wouldn't consider evola a fascist far right yes fascist no he was was actually almost put to death by Mussolini