Message from @celticflame
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I'll have to wait until I'm at my office. I cannot move channels or categories from mobile.
Would you well-read lads say that a book a week is a good goal?
Definitely
I feel like my cognitive abilities are deteriorating as time goes on. Would reading weekly help with this?
It takes me a couple weeks usually to read anything
Technically, 30 minutes of reading a day should be your bare minimum no matter what speed. I'd shoot for an hour and gauge your reading quota based on that. Better to be a slow reader who thoroughly digests what he reads than a reader who has something to prove by reading the entire library of congress and not retaining anything.
@DavidOrlando#5630 I'll get you and Olivia set up when I get home
@DavidOrlando#5630
I'm going to be honest and say I am having trouble with keeping up with the reading. Not sure if we got away from the 50 pgs/week or what but I am way behind
We did, because 50 a week was *way* too short. It was like 10 minutes a day.
And I'm not even a fast reader.
I tried to find some Nicholas Wade books at the library but they only got his one on genetics not the race stuff. Is his work good in general and worth reading?
Probably, but it might not be what you're looking for
My library has zero decent books on relevant subjects
No De Benoist, no Faye, no Evola. There's not even many normie cuckservative works
Lame
Thought you guys would get a laugh out of this. This is how I read controversial literature in public areas.
But been bit preoccupied with events,sorry
If anyone is behind, that is totally fine. You can just start White Identity with us in February. But please finish Why We Fight in your spare time! It's so good!
That's brilliant
I wonder if there's a place you can buy book sleeves
@CarletonJ that’s brilliant and funny but also a sad state of affairs.
>reading the section on Regional Segregation
>gets to the part on California
>”now the group will know of our struggle”
Lol,sadly yes...
Has anyone read any Julius Evola? I just ordered two of his books and wanted to know what people thought of him.
I like his work a lot @Hessian. Faye has a decent critique of traditionalism to keep in mind when you read, though. Don't get bogged down in the intellectualization of antiquity and tradition; tradition is something living and breathing, not something to be analyzed like a museum piece that's dead and gone.
Evola has very fascinating writing, but just make sure to read it as a supplement to (meta)political work.
Arktos, I think, published an English translation of his Handbook for Right-wing Youth, which is really easy to get into compared to stuff like Revolt Against the Modern World. Regardless of where you start, I'd definitely recommend the Handbook as well @Hessian
I ordered, “Revolt against the modern world” and “metaphysics of war.”
I'm part of the way through revolt, it's very good. When I first started it I hadn't read any nationalist literature at all so I had a bit of a hard time with it, but it's a pretty damn good read
And I will keep your advice on wind while reading.
Evola's Platonic metaphysics are problematic for me and should be as such for anyone else who calls themselves a "race realist." Evola rejects biological race for a more metaphysical idea. And yet, my problem with Neo-Platonism expands further. Nietzsche's critique (in *Beyond Good and Evil*) of Platonism is spot on. Everything for them is about rejecting the material world; this becomes masturbatory and delusional if taken to its extreme conclusion, in which the person is alienated from his/her body and all realpolitik.
Also, Faye is absolutely right that Evola constructs a false dilemma between tradition and modernity. Tradition is a principle and out of time, but modernity is a historical period. It behooves us, then, to synthesize these concepts as Faye does in Archeofuturism.
All that said, Evola is still useful. His emphasis on tradition, order, and transcendence is the start of an important discourse for modern minds. And yet, like Plato, you should read him with a healthy degree of criticism.
@William_1994 - WA on the metaphysical front, I have recently begun to wonder if different races and species attract souls from different sources. Some say that DNA is shaped like a receptor, and if it is in fact a receptor, who knows what variety of signals it is capable of receiving. Just a random thought.
@Benjamin Matthew-MI Welcome to the ILC server! Feel free to join us tomorrow night for our last discussion on Why We Fight. I believe we are getting together at 8 EST
Sounds good. Thank you.