Thanks for the Evola lite. Latching on to a simplifying concept you used...the relationship between intelligence and tolerance of suffering...I think you've given me a useful lens to get a rough bearing on where, in the natural (and recurrent) structure of society, I can best serve (and find Meaning). I haven't read much beyond his metaphysical stuff, so haven't looked through his lens on Self & Society yet... So an intelligent fellow with a high threshold for suffering might be either a warrior-noble, or a devout priest (as opposed to a decadent priest, opportunistic parasites pretending to care about his people's relationship with Holiness)... Depends on what sort of Suffering this type is most capable of forging into Benefit. The warrior's suffering is to Step Into Hardship, challenge Resistance, and assert Control over it...shaping Reality by Applied Effort of Will... Mytho-poetically, to Master the Cosmic Lightning (Will) to Take Command the Primordial Dragon (Reality)... The priest's suffering is to Resist immersion into the Sensory Bliss of Primal Nature, to heighten the senses of the Spiritual, and to forsake the ease of a life obedient to Nature, to peer at things that may be "Super-Natural", Eternal or Transcendent.
Thanks for the Evola lite. Latching on to a simplifying concept you used...the relationship between intelligence and tolerance of suffering...I think you've given me a useful lens to get a rough bearing on where, in the natural (and recurrent) structure of society, I can best serve (and find Meaning).
I haven't read much beyond his metaphysical stuff, so haven't looked through his lens on Self & Society yet...
So an intelligent fellow with a high threshold for suffering might be either a warrior-noble, or a devout priest (as opposed to a decadent priest, opportunistic parasites pretending to care about his people's relationship with Holiness)...
Depends on what sort of Suffering this type is most capable of forging into Benefit.
The warrior's suffering is to Step Into Hardship, challenge Resistance, and assert Control over it...shaping Reality by Applied Effort of Will...
Mytho-poetically, to Master the Cosmic Lightning (Will) to Take Command the Primordial Dragon (Reality)...
The priest's suffering is to Resist immersion into the Sensory Bliss of Primal Nature, to heighten the senses of the Spiritual, and to forsake the ease of a life obedient to Nature, to peer at things that may be "Super-Natural", Eternal or Transcendent.