THE CRISIS OF THE MODERN WORLD, GLOABLISM, THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND KALI
YUGA
THE REVOLUTION AND THE CRISIS OF THE MODERN WORLD
"Any historical prospect reveals that, just as
man civilizations know, after a dawn and a development, a decline and an end.
Some tried to discover the law which governs such a destiny, the cause of the
decline of civilizations. This cause could never be brought back to purely
historical factors and naturalists." (Julius Evola, Revolt Against
the Modern World)
"There are diseases that incubate for a long time and become manifest
only when their hidden work has almost ended. This is the case of man's fall
from the ways of what he once glorified as civilization par excellence. Though
modern men have come to perceive the West's bleak future only recently, there
are causes that have been active for centuries that have contributed to
spiritual and material degeneration. These causes have not only taken away from
most people the possibility of revolt and the return to normalcy and health, but
most of all, they have taken away the ability to understand what true normalcy
and health really mean." (Julius Evola in Revolt Against The Modern
World)
"This present "civilization"... has brought to all strata of
society and to all races the following "gifts": restlessness,
dissatisfaction, resentment, the need to go further and faster, and the
inability to possess one's life in simplicity, independence, and balance.
Modern civilization has pushed man onward; it has generated in him the need for
an increasingly greater number of things; it has made him more and more
insufficient to himself and powerless." (Julius Evola in Revolt
Against The Modern World)
We live among ruins in a World in which "god is dead" as Nietzsche
stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge,
disregard for one’s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest
standards of taste and intelligence, apotheosis of the pathetic, hording of
material objects and possessions, disrespect for all that is inherently higher
and better - in other words a complete inversion of true values and ideals, the
raising of the victory flag of ignorance and the banner of degeneracy. In such
a time, social decadence is so widespread that it appears as a natural component
of all political institutions. The crises that dominate the daily lives of our
societies are part of a secret occult war to remove the support of spiritual
and traditional values in order to turn man into a passive instrument of dark
powers. The common ground of both Capitalism and Socialism is a materialistic
view of life and being. Materialism in its war with the Spirit has taken on
many forms; some have promoted its goals with great subtlety, whilst others
have done so with an alarming lack of subtlety, but all have added, in greater
or lesser measure, to the growing misery of Mankind. The forms which have done
the most damage in our time may be enumerated as: Freemasonry, Liberalism,
Nihilism, Capitalism, Socialism, Marxism, Imperialism, Anarchism, Modernism and
the New Age. Each of these creeds - materialist at base - is philosophically
wrong and discredited in practice. Our definition of modern and modernism has
nothing to do with what may be 'new or in the shape of the present', instead,
what is here defined as modern, is that which is cut off from the Divine, the
Transcendant, or the 'Supernatural', everything that does not refer to - and is
isolated from - "the immutable principles which govern everything and
which are known to man through revelation." (S. H. Nasr)
The French Revolution of 1789 which was effect of the ideas on which modern
society is based upon was only one markable eruption of this development
towards annihilation. It was the primary event which thrust philosophical
materialism from under surface onto the world stage. In the intervening two
centuries, the power of Organized Naturalism in all its diverse forms - that is
to say, the systematic tendency to deny in theory and practice the reality of
Soul and Spirit - has grown steadily to the point that it now threatens to
engulf the entire world.
"The disappearance of conscious personality and the turning of feelings
and thoughts in a definite direction, which are the primary characteristics of
a crowd about to become organized, do not always involve the simultaneous
presence of a number of individuals on one spot. Thousands of isolated
individuals may acquire at certain moments, and under the influence of certain
violent emotions--such, for example, as a great national event -- the characteristics
of a psychological crowd." (Gustave Le Bon)
"The idea that institutions can remedy the defects of societies, that
national progress is the consequence of the improvement of institutions and
governments, and that social changes can be effected by decrees...was the
starting point of the French Revolution, and the social theories of the present
day are based upon it. The most continuous experience has been unsuccessful in
shaking this grave delusion ... institutions are the outcome of ideas, sentiments,
and customs, and...are not to be recast by recasting legislative codes. A
nation does not choose its institutions at will any more than it chooses the
colour of its hair or eyes. Institutions and governments are the product of the
race. They are not the creators of an epoch, but are created by it." (Gustave
Le Bon)
"The civilization of the modern West appears in history a veritable
anomaly: among all those which are known to us more or less completely, this
civilization is the only one which has developed along purely material lines
and this monstrous development, whose beginning coincindes with the so-called
Renaissance, has been accompanied, as indeed it was fated to be, with a
corresponding intellectual regress; we say corresponding and not equivalent,
because here are two orders of things between which there can be no common
measure. This regress has reached such a point that the Westerners of today no
longer know what pure intellect is; in fact they do not even suspect that
anything of the kind can exist; hence their disdain, not only for eastern
civilization, but also for the Middle Ages of Europe, whose spirit escapes them
scarcely less completely. How is the interest of a purely speculative knowledge
to be brought home to people for whom intelligence is nothing but a means of
acting on matter and turning it to practical ends, and for whom science, in
their limited understanding of it, is above all important in so far as it may
be applied to industrial purposes ?" (Rene
Guenon, East and West)
KALI YUGA AND THE IRON AGE
The modern world has case broken away from all
historical awareness whereas "traditional" structures, for example
the Greco-Roman or the Irano-Indian, were organized on the basis of their
awareness of their own belonging, belonging that is, to the "eternal"
unchanging cycles of human history. The Ancient World at the time of Plato was
aware of everything recurring in history. The modern world has put an end to
every traditional order and has replaced it with chaos. The individualism of modern
societies, which are without Tradition, accepts neither that people are unequal
nor that Authority and Hierarchy as such defy analysis.
In "Works and Days" Hesiod divided time into five ages:--the Golden
age, ruled by Cronos, when people lived extremely long lives 'without sorrow of
heart'; the Silver age, ruled by Zeus; the Bronze age, an epoch of war; the
Heroic age, the time of the Trojan war; and lastly the Iron age, the corrupt
present. This is similar to Hindu and Buddhist concepts of the Kali Yuga. The
idea of a Golden Age has likewise had a profound impact on western thought. The
characteristic of the modern Age, which can be equated with the "Age of
Iron", the "Kali Yuga", outlines and forseen in nearly all
pre-modern societies, is the loss of identity and the rise of collectivism, a
characteristic of Bolshevist and Western societies alike.
De Maistre explained that savage peoples are not primitive peoples in the sense
of original peoples, but rather the degenerated and/or degenerating remains of
ancient peoples that have disappeared. In contrary to the evolutionary dogma
animal species clearly show the degeneration of primordial man’s potential. Julius
Evola wrote: “These unfulfilled or deviant potentials manifest themselves as
by-products of the true evolutionary process that man has led since the
beginning. For this reason, ontogenesis, the biological history of the
individual, does not repeat in any way the process of phylogenesis, the
presumed evolutionary history of the species, but passes again through some
eliminated possibilities. It stops to roughly outline them and then moves
beyond, subordinating these possibilities to the superior and specifically
human principle, which is defined and fulfilled little by little in the
development of the individual.”
If anything characterizes our times, it is a sense of pervading chaos. In every
field of human endeavor, the windstorms of change are fast altering the ways we
live. Contemporary man is no longer anchored in certainties and thus has lost
sight of who he is, where he comes from and where he is going. We are now
living in an age of increasing strife and chaos. Almost every nation of the
West has entered a dangerous age of mediocrity, weakness, and decline.
That "no more tradition's chains shall bind us" is one of the
fundamental ideas of socialist/progressivist thinking. Man must be freed from
tradition. Reason is to be the guiding light. The devil can cite scripture for
his purposes. Reason can often be used to support any position. If men and
women are freed from tradition, the experiences of history and the family
environment, they can be manipulated and used by ideological and religious
leaders, eccentrics and maniacs. If tradition declines, ideologues can mould
and influence individuals.
THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND GLOBALISATION
The process of building the "new world
order", at the centre of which stand the political-financial oligarchic
groups of the West, is called as globalisation. The victims of this process are
the sovereign states, the national cultures, the religious doctrines, the
economic traditions, the manifestations of social justice, the surrounding
environment - every spiritual, intellectual and material variety on the planet.
The term "globalism" in the customary political lexicon means just
"unipolar globalism", i.e. not the fusion of the different cultures,
social-political and economic systems into something new (as this would be
"multi-polar globalism", "eurasist globalism"), as the
imposition of Western stereotypes upon mankind.
The type of world under construction was implicit in the history of imperialism
and capitalism since the Second World War. The sudden and apparent collapse of
Communism as the dominant and official political ideology in
Current political debate has become increasingly focused on matters on minor
importance while issues of greater significance are not given a public airing.
There has been a steady internationalization of capital leading to the growth
of the multinational corporations and the international banks to a stage where
their power is organized through international institutions- the World Bank,
the International Monetary Fund, the General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade
forums and the
The "values" of the transnational class are economic. In the
free-market of goods and ideas, a
This New World Order was proclaimed the moment the old Eastern Bloc
disintegrated. It is obvious that there are peoples who are not part of this
Order. The Chinese superpower is not a member of the club; nor is
In the struggle against the New World Order it is necessary to appreciate the
presence of peoples and states outside of it, and possibly opposed to it. Not
all these forces are fulsome or even conditional friends. Some are eying
This means we understand that if we demand national freedom for ourselves, we
cannot repudiate it for others. We must favour national independence struggles.
We must accept the genuine plurality of cultures and peoples, as opposed to the
false pluralism of liberal-internationalism, which seeks to standardize
humanity and culture. We must encourage armed neutrality against alien blocs
and support - even critically - any regime bullied by the new Order.