Message from @Jacob

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2018-01-29 02:39:10 UTC  

Definitely

2018-01-29 02:39:39 UTC  

I feel like my cognitive abilities are deteriorating as time goes on. Would reading weekly help with this?

2018-01-29 02:40:12 UTC  

It takes me a couple weeks usually to read anything

2018-01-29 06:28:08 UTC  

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.

2018-01-29 19:03:48 UTC  

2018-01-29 19:05:01 UTC  

@DavidOrlando#5630 I'll get you and Olivia set up when I get home

2018-01-29 19:05:04 UTC  

@DavidOrlando#5630

2018-01-30 10:46:32 UTC  

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

2018-01-30 16:53:28 UTC  

We did, because 50 a week was *way* too short. It was like 10 minutes a day.

2018-01-30 16:54:38 UTC  

And I'm not even a fast reader.

2018-01-31 02:22:50 UTC  

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?

2018-01-31 02:42:39 UTC  

Probably, but it might not be what you're looking for

2018-01-31 15:34:53 UTC  

My library has zero decent books on relevant subjects

2018-01-31 15:35:25 UTC  

No De Benoist, no Faye, no Evola. There's not even many normie cuckservative works

2018-01-31 15:35:28 UTC  

Lame

2018-02-01 01:35:17 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/393247525198364676/408435105942470666/20180131_173635.jpg

2018-02-01 01:35:35 UTC  

Thought you guys would get a laugh out of this. This is how I read controversial literature in public areas.

2018-02-01 02:30:29 UTC  

Wayyy behind too

2018-02-01 02:30:54 UTC  

But been bit preoccupied with events,sorry

2018-02-01 02:31:42 UTC  

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!

2018-02-01 04:05:09 UTC  

That's brilliant

2018-02-01 04:05:19 UTC  

I wonder if there's a place you can buy book sleeves

2018-02-01 19:41:38 UTC  

@CarletonJ that’s brilliant and funny but also a sad state of affairs.

2018-02-02 02:23:27 UTC  

>reading the section on Regional Segregation
>gets to the part on California
>”now the group will know of our struggle”

2018-02-02 05:41:04 UTC  

Lol,sadly yes...

2018-02-03 17:33:19 UTC  

Has anyone read any Julius Evola? I just ordered two of his books and wanted to know what people thought of him.

2018-02-03 17:50:19 UTC  

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.

2018-02-03 17:51:55 UTC  

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

2018-02-03 18:09:56 UTC  

I ordered, “Revolt against the modern world” and “metaphysics of war.”

2018-02-03 18:12:26 UTC  

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

2018-02-03 18:12:27 UTC  

And I will keep your advice on wind while reading.

2018-02-03 21:58:03 UTC  

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.

2018-02-03 21:58:15 UTC  

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.

2018-02-03 21:58:28 UTC  

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.

2018-02-04 00:22:28 UTC  

@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.

2018-02-04 13:48:11 UTC  

2018-02-04 14:24:42 UTC  

@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

2018-02-04 15:19:10 UTC  

Sounds good. Thank you.

2018-02-06 00:02:47 UTC  

I find Evola frustrating af, precisely because of what @William_1994 - WA said above.

2018-02-07 16:47:09 UTC  

Just sharing a video I hadn't seen before. It's D. Duke addressing Faye at Amren 2006. Faye responds. Gives some insight to Faye's take on the JQ, which we discussed. https://youtu.be/RELmEPUy6lQ ... also linked are Amren's and Duke's responses to the discussion.

2018-02-07 16:47:44 UTC  

Didn't intend for screenshot preview. If I should have linked that differently, please let me know.