'The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times' is René Guénon's most prophetic work, which only becomes more relevant with each passing year. Having seen his telling analysis of 'The Crisis of the Modern World', swiftly overtaken by events, Guénon based this his final and most profound critique squarely on changeless metaphysical principles. But to unite social criticism with metaphysics is to beget eschatology, and so, where as 'Crisis' Guénon foresaw the end of Western civilization, in 'Reign' he presents us with the end of a vaster world-age, or 'Manvantara', that began before the dawn of history as we know it.
Guénon bases his critique on 'abstract' principles, but his examples are satisfyingly concrete. His chapter The Degeneration of Coinage could easily be updated to include the transformation of money into a web of electronically-stored information, while in its treatment of the occult dangers of metallurgy The Significance of Metallurgy points directly to our own well-founded fear of such man-made elements as plutonium. And his Cracks in the Great Wall gives solid metaphysical grounding to our twentieth-century demonology, including the UFO phenomenon. 'The Reign of Quantity' presents a vision of the End Times that in no way contradicts traditional eschatologies, but is one key to their deeper meaning.
thanks user. I was the one who asked for a qrd on the fourth turn thread. Don't have time right now (its work hours in australia and I'm a dirty wage cuck). But will check this all out in depth tonight. if the thread is dead by then I'll create another. Love your work senpai, rare high effort thread.
philosophy is fake and gay, we were better off in tribes killing the other tribes for riverfront territory.
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Xavier Perez
Based Guenon enthusiast. IMO the far right should steep themselves in the perennialist authors. Evola is a good jumping off point to move to Eliade, Guenon, Schuon, etc. Charles Upton is not bad also. If the right moves firmly into the perennialist sphere it will only improve the movement’s potency. Man can’t live by bread alone and all that.
