>But in the majority of literary works, in short stories, dramas, and novels, the regime of residues persists, with its typical forms and subjective dissociation. Their constant background, rightly called the "fetishism of human relationships," consists of the insignificant, sentimental, sexual, or social problems of insignificant individuals, reaching the extreme of dullness and banality in a certain epidemic type of American novel.

>>24547484 (OP)
Sounds like he was absolutely filtered by Pride and Prejudice.

>>24547484 (OP)
More of a Blood Meridian type, eh?

>When a Marxist critic like Lukacs writes: "In recent times are has become a luxury item for idle parasites; artistic activity, in its turn, has become a separate profession with the task of satisfying those luxury needs," he sums up what art is practically reduced to in our day.

>>24547484 (OP)
>Ιn Europe, this process of dissolution, which always follows the disappearance of any higher point of reference, had two connected causes. The first was a kind of paralysis of the idea of European tradition as a center of gravity-which also corresponded to an obscuration, materializing, and decline of the Empire and its authority. Then, as if by counterpoint, there ensued the second cause: the centrifugal motion of the parts, the dissociation and autonomization οί partial areas, conditioned precisely by the weakening and disappearance οί the originating force οί gravity. From the political point οί view, there was the wellknown consequence that we need not dwell οη: the end οί the unified whole that the preceding European world still presented politically and socially, despite a system οί ample regional autonomies and multiple tensions. Steding calls this a "Swissifying" and "Dutchifying"2 οί areas previously organically included ίη the complex οί the Empire, and the fragmentation consequent οη the rise οί national states. But οη the intellectual level the effect was necessarily the formation οί a divided, "neutral" culture, devoid οί any objective character.

>>24547798
>That "freedom" is not unlike the "freedom οί culture" celebrated as a victory, with which the active processes οί dissolution likewise manifest ίη an inorganic civilization (as opposed to what Vico recognized as proper to all the "heroic periods" οί preceding civilizations). One οί the most typical expressions οί the ''neutralization'' οί such a culture is the antithesis between culture and politics: pure art and pure culture are supposed to have nothing to do with politics. Ιη the direction οί literary liberalism and humanism, separation has often turned into overt opposition. There is a well-known intellectual and humanist type who fosters an almost hysterical intolerance for anything referring to the political world-state ideals and authority, strict discipline, war, power, and domination-and denies them any spiritual or cultural value. Accordingly, there are those who have dealt with a "cultural history" carefully separated from "political history," making it a realm ίη itself. Naturally, the antipolitical pathos and alienation of this "neutral" art and culture have been largely justified by the degradation of the political sphere, by the low level to which political values have fallen ίη recent times. But it is more a case of an orientation οη principle, which excludes any consideration of how anomalous this situation is: ίη modern culture the "neutral" character has ίη fact become a constituent feature.

>>24547484 (OP)
More evidence that Russians and Americans have much more in common then they would like to accept.

>>24547484 (OP)
>you are too low-IQ to deserve to be happy
You're right Evola, on that you are right. But are you gonna stop me? I recall you died a very long time ago.

>>24547851
>thinking a max level aryan wizard master of the 14th solar realm, trve vnderstander of the 88 hyperborean mysteries "died"

lol

>>24547803
>Here, to anticipate any misunderstanding, it is prudent to emphasize that the opposite condition, the normal and creative one, is not tlτat of a culture at the service of the state and of politics (politics ίη the degraded, modern sense). It is that ίη which a unique idea, the basic and central symbol of a given civilization, shows its strength and exerts a parallel, positive action, often invisible, both οη the political plane (with all the values, not just the material ones, that should concern every true state) and οη that of thought, culture, and the arts: it excludes any major schism or antagonism between the two realms, as well as any need for outside interventions. Precisely because an organic type of civilization ηο longer exists, precisely because the processes of dissolution have penetrated every realm of existence, all of that has ceased to exist. Today we seem fated to have the alternative, false and deleterious ίη itself, of either a "neutral" art and culture devoid of every higher warrant and meaning, or of an art and culture subject to pure and simple, degraded political forces, as is the case ίη totalitarian systems, and chiefly ίη those informed by the theories of "Marxist realism" and the corresponding polemic against the decadence and alienation of bourgeois art.

>>24547484 (OP)
sure

>>24547516
His favorite novelist was Meyrink.

>>24547484 (OP)
>>24549457
>Meyrink

what did he think of lovecraft then?

>>24547494
bourgeois garbage.