“Technocracy will Americanise us, progress will starve our spirituality so far that nothing of the bloodthirsty, frivolous or unnatural dreams of the utopist will be comparable to those positive facts. I invite any thinking person to show me what is left of life. Religion! It is useless to talk about it, or to look for its remnants; it is a scandal that one takes the trouble even of denying God. Private property! It was—strictly speaking—abolished with the suppression of the right of primogeniture; yet the time will come when mankind like a revengeful cannibal will snatch the last piece from those who rightfully deemed themselves the heirs of revolutions. And even this will not be the worst. . . . Universal ruin will manifest itself not solely or particularly in political institutions or general progress or whatever else might be a proper name for it; it will be seen, above all, in the baseness of hearts. Shall I add that, that little left-over of sociability will hardly resist the sweeping brutality, and that the rulers, in order to hold their own and to produce a sham order, will ruthlessly resort to measures which will make us, who already are callous, shudder?»”

—Charles Baudelaire, Fusées, 1867.

Personal: Imagine if you, instead of engaging in the childish dramas going on in the rightist sphere, you did something self-cultivating. Now, don't imagine that, but do it, and you will thank yourself later when you ‘grow up’. Growth happens away from the abject hubbub of the rabble.

He who is not a man in spirit and soul is not truly a man, and the same applies to a woman.

Anyone?

—Evola on jeans-wearing women:

«These girls ought to have been sent to concentration or labour camps: these, and not luxurious existentialist apartments, would have been the appropriate setting for them and for the ‘functionality’ of their way of dressing, and might even have ensured a salutary re-education.»

Until recent times, the opposite tendency was common: many male and female individuals from the lower classes would, more or less artificially and clumsily, imitate the mannerisms, speech and behaviour of the upper classes. Today people are doing the very opposite, and they believe themselves unconventional in doing so, when in fact they are nothing but vulgar imbeciles.

Personal: Too many phallic men in this world today. Many Rightists, already coming out of a context soaked in degeneracy, are supposedly «rising» themselves merely into a Decadent view of life, calling it «based» while remaining on the level of the brutes, the lower, crudely sensual level. Thus, men are nowadays trying to overcome contemporary degeneracy by only adopting the degeneracy of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. And even Hellenism is being conjured up again by imposing today's degeneracy on it, and choosing only its decadent phase.

That civilization, of which the Modern man was so proud, and in the name of which he believed the myth of progress and had marched to the conquest of the world, that civilization is now faced with a reductio ad absurdum, and with a reversal of the values which it had claimed for itself. Having thrown itself into the conquest of matter, it served its purpose only at the cost of materializing the spirit, of excluding any higher form of life, of amalgamating individuals in the tyranny of collective bodies, we would almost say subhumans in their lack of face, rationality, and light, in their subjection to energies that from time to time, as though galvanizing with a temporary life fearful of dead or automated bodies. It hurls them against each other.