A search for exclusivity? Seriously Peter that’s a very shallow take on what is a far more compelling story. Traditionalist thinking has much in common with the conservative philosophy – as presented by Roger Scruton for example.
The (otherwise reasonable) desire to separate the political and the religious has helped render a society without purpose, un-moored and aimless; a ghastly anti-humanism at the most fundamental level. One that is unable to even distinguish the sublime from the material, the beautiful from the ugly or good from evil. A society flailing about trying to create values from reason and feelings. And often not good feelings.
Traditionalism is, above all, an attempt, a search for the (re?)discovery of a basis and justification for morality, for our existence. “In the material realm science reigns supreme, in the realm of values we must look elsewhere” Jordan Peterson.
Thanks for taking the trouble to disentangle the article’s confusion.
yorkshirecynic
4 years ago
The tendency of some factions of the right towards occultism is not new. Orwell noted it in his essay ‘W B Yeats’ –
“A year before the war, examining a copy of GRINGOIRE, the French Fascist weekly, much read by army officers, I found in it no less than thirty-eight advertisements of clairvoyants.”
A search for exclusivity?
Seriously Peter that’s a very shallow take on what is a far more compelling story. Traditionalist thinking has much in common with the conservative philosophy – as presented by Roger Scruton for example.
The (otherwise reasonable) desire to separate the political and the religious has helped render a society without purpose, un-moored and aimless; a ghastly anti-humanism at the most fundamental level. One that is unable to even distinguish the sublime from the material, the beautiful from the ugly or good from evil. A society flailing about trying to create values from reason and feelings. And often not good feelings.
Traditionalism is, above all, an attempt, a search for the (re?)discovery of a basis and justification for morality, for our existence.
“In the material realm science reigns supreme, in the realm of values we must look elsewhere” Jordan Peterson.
Thanks for taking the trouble to disentangle the article’s confusion.
The tendency of some factions of the right towards occultism is not new. Orwell noted it in his essay ‘W B Yeats’ –
“A year before the war, examining a copy of GRINGOIRE, the French Fascist weekly, much read by army officers, I found in it no less than thirty-eight advertisements of clairvoyants.”
Fascism is leftwing.
Fascism is leftwing.
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Fascism is leftwing.
The moderators deleted the following comment, which I am therefore reinstating:-
“The moderators deleted the following comment, which I am therefore reinstating:-
Fascism is leftwing.”