Episode 29 - Pt. 1 Apostasy, Spiritual but not Religious, Traditionalism, and Fascism

In this monologue episode, Jules talks about the ways a secular society relocates the sacred to objects of liberal worship. Along the way, he speaks to the volatility of spirituality, in that vague senses of spirituality can lead one into other thoughts that are useful for inchoate fascism. Ultimately, he argues we must take seriously the ways in which spirituality can lend itself to fascism, as there are actual fascists in the world who would leverage spirituality to spread their ideology.

Additional links below…

Books!

· Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola by Paul Furlong

· The Case Against The Modern World: A Crash Course in Traditionalist Thought by Daniel Schwindt

· War for Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Powerbrokers by Benjamin Teitelbaum

· Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism by Nicolas Goodrick-Clark

· Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco

· The Evolian Imagination: Gender, Race, and Class from Fascism to the New Right by Robert Tobin

· Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties by Richard Polt

· Contemporary Esotericism by Egil Asprem and Kenneth Granholm

Articles…

· Steve Bannon Cited Italian Thinker Who Inspired Fascists by Jason Horowitz in the New York Times