>>514904530
Yes. Although I do not understand Guenon (I find him unreadable, more schizophrenia than philosophy), I can understand that his conclusion is not unique and is very much apparent to be stated by anyone not shackled by academia (like Guenon was).
Western civilization is founded upon the faustian bargain where we sell God in exchange of material wealth. This is a conclusion that Guenon, Adorno, Nietzsche, Spengler, Horkheimer, and many other thinkers arrived at through independent means, and is very much correct. Karl Marx himself rambled about the 'great achievement' of capitalism being greater than of the pyramids and the wall of China, since the great achievement of capitalism was at his time and still is now the universal deterioration of tradition in exchange of a means of production.
In the times that Guenon praises, man made war for the truth of the Universe, like in the Crusades and Jihad. Then, men fought for nation and for ideals of universal liberation, once again a religious cause — albeit, to bring forth heaven without God and without the afterlife. Modern enlightenment progressive liberal capitalist civilization has deteriorated into forcing millions to wage war for economic models.
The West must now turn inwards, not to the pursuit of material comfort (which has shackled and holds the man hostage), but towards the greatness and perfecting of man.
