reading

G E O R G E     F I T Z H U G H :
Sociology for the South, or The Failure of Free Society (1854)
Cannibals All! or, Slaves without Masters (1856)
A Southerner's antebellum publications explaining the moral and sociological fundament of Slavery. Contains ideas essential to the metapolitics of what is posted here.

F. T.     M A R I N E T T I:
The Futurist Manifesto (1909)
Marinetti makes a bold call for a politics of passion and vitality.

L U D W I G     W I T T G E N S T E I N :
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Wittgenstein explains how problems of philosophy are problems of language; "what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence."

Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Concepts are laid out herein which are vital to the purpose of this blog, such as language-games.

M E N C I U S     M O L D B U G :
A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (2009) (parts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9a 9b 9d)
By abundance of time and proficient skill, Mencius Moldbug has earned a place of esteem in reactionary Internet circles. His "gentle introduction" - as he puts it, gentle as DMT - is an indispensable artifact of 21st-century reactionary thought.

Universalism: postwar progressivism as a Christian sect (2007)
Why do atheists believe in religion? (2007)
Understanding nontheistic post-Christianity.

R O B E R T    F I L M E R :
Patriarcha, or The Natural Power of Kings (1680)
Monarchy, patriarchy, by divine right.

J U L I U S     E V O L A :
American "Civilization" (1945)
Evola, the man of Tradition, takes a look at American democratic ideals, albeit with excessive disregard. The memetic parasites that first matured in America are destroying the West.

About Modern Civilization's Contagion (from Revolt Against the Modern World, 1934)
Modernity was already demonic; what does that make postmodernity?

Bhagavad-Gita: the Hero as Divine Manifestation & Sacrality of War as Highest Tradition (from The Metaphysics of War, 1935)
War as a sacred bridge between action and transcendent knowledge.

F R I E D R I C H     N I E T Z S C H E :
Happiness is Having Power (from Beyond Good and Evil, 1886)
Old Freddie explains the difference between the morality of masters, and that of slaves.

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887)
Takes the duality even further - we see how guilt comes from debt, and how scientism is self-contempt.

M A D I S O N     G R A N T :
The Passing of the Great Race (1916)
The great conservationist and eugenicist traces America's now-forgotten Nordic roots.

L O T H R O P     S T O D D A R D :
The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man (1922)
An ethnic conservative similar to Grant, Stoddard explains how civilization endangers itself as it coddles those to whom it is an unbearable burden.

O S W A L D     S P E N G L E R :
The Problem of Civilization (from The Decline of the West, 1922)
Spengler sees all great human societies as going from a phase of Culture to one of Civilization: the former is ascent towards vital ideals; the latter is decline under the interests of Money.

E D W A R D     B E R N A Y S :
Propaganda (1928)
Sigmund Freud's nephew, the man who helped get water fluoridated and women smoking, explains the art of public manipulation.

N I C C O L Ò     M A C H I A V E L L I :
Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared (from The Prince, 1532)
Machiavelli helps us sort out the matter of where cruelty ends and where mercy begins.

T H E O D O R     A D O R N O   and   M A X     H O R K H E I M E R :
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (from Dialectic of Enlightenment, 1947)
A critique of Enlightenment values from the Left, by Adorno and Horkheimer of the infamous Frankfurt School. It may surprise you how insightful - and how reactionary - these leftists can be. Perhaps you'll notice, however, that haecceitically left-wing quality of "being off" or missing some part of the picture - take them with a dose of Evola for good measure.