Guenon on the corrective agency which manifests itself at the critical juncture of Ages, when the degrading tendency seems predominant.
Ofc, who or what this agency is, or was, depends on the reader.
Since, to discern the corrective, one must first define the downward trend.
You think you're touching on something new.
That by instinct alone you have intuited that primordial truth veiled by word and time.
Then you realize that the summit of you struggled towards, has been reached before.
You read the words of another man, as if he had plucked each sentence from your conscience.
At that moment, the withered will is resuscitated.
For hope is restored : not only that your intuition was sound, but that others had traced these same threads of truth before you and once stood where you stand today.
✅FACT: Julius Evola's "Revolt Against the Modern World" is one of the greatest texts ever written.
Nobody has ever been able to refute the contents of this text.
All challengers rely on strawmans and lies.
Personal insecurities and cowardice before the transformative forces of changing epochs, creates a peculiar individual.
His dogmatic disbelief in restoration preached with missionary zeal to compensate with numbers what he lacks in truth.
One can discern such individuals by their prescriptions.
The cohorts who engage in any trad discourse, apart from actual traditonal authorities are :
1) Those who have little grasp of the subject but are inclined towards the system due to personal convictions or, either a genuine or poorly articulated frustration with the present age. (mostly teens and young adults)
2) Those who have a grasp of the system but due to inherent negative motivations and character traits, can never be champions of the system, because of an accute shortage of intellectual capacity in critical thinking and articulation.
3) Boomers who harken back to bygone days but lack any capacity for articulation due to various problems plaguing that age group.
4) Those who possess desirable intellectual capacities but having failed to the traditional standard (due to independent variables) and having observed the character of "Hindus", feel alienated or unmotivated to labour an output for cohorts 1), 2) and 3) + the general mass of "Hindus".
5) Those who both possess the capacity to articulation and for various cultural reasons, have been inducted sufficiently early to not fail basic standards of tradition, and while confronted with the same corruptions observed by 4), aren't dejected but remain coherent and responsive.
Only 4) and 5) can get any work done, but are a micro minority.
4) is prone to isolation and disinterest.
5) alone remains consistent.
1), 2) and 3) are probably 95% of the online component. Unfortunately.
Can't say about IRL.
Maybe I missed something or am completely wrong.
Rant over.