Today I spoke with a close friend of mine whom I hadn't spoken to in over a year. To my dismay he has become a right wing Christian nationalist who wants racial purity. And he used to be a pretty intelligent and chill guy, even had a couple of black girlfriends when we were in college. Now he's against immigration, abortion, sex better marriage.
During our conversation I said he seemed like a mad Evola, and he was surprised I knew the writer and he said he had been reading him. Then I told him to throw that shit in the garbage and he laughed at me for saying it was dangerous ideas.
Seems to me like he's proof that some books are destructive of or mental capacities and thought.
I know some /pol/tards come here to push Evola on people.
What are your thoughts? Does Evola have that negative impact on people? I don't fully know what else he's reading but he raised a few dtrange points that I later learned were lies by the BNP, such as Trotsky inventing racism and other such nonsense.
Dominic Kelly
>How dangerous are some books?
0%.
>What are your thoughts?
you are a bad judge of character.
>Does Evola have that negative impact on people?
no. most people don't consider other arguments with even a shred of seriousness, they just accept whatever if it resembles their own thoughts.
Samuel Green
Seems like he's got his life together, OP. Why haven't you?
Isaac Young
seems like a pretty cool guy tbqh
shape up, OP
Henry Fisher
>you are a bad judge of character. /thread
the books aren't dangerous, the danger comes when ignorant people read ignorant shit to reinforce their bias.
Chase Gray
>he laughed at me for saying it was dangerous ideas >dangerous ideas
>I dont like it and dont agree with it >therefore its dangerous
I see you're an authoritarian of the highest level OP.
Seems to me, your friend did the right thing, laughing at you
Luis Williams
Sure and yet it is the book that can also give an ignosnt person terribly harmful ideas.
Without Evola he might simply have remained a fool, now he's a fool with racist ideas.
Evan Bell
No, I don't force or ban books, but I do identify ones that corrupt people's minds towards bigotry and ignorance.
Dianetics for examppe is harmful, but I don't want it banned. Authoritarians use force to enforce their views.
Kevin Ramirez
again, you're jsut signalling the idea that only your worldview is somehow the correct, enlightened one.
Plus, your argument boils down to saying that you're not an authoritarian because you dont act on it. Yet, you already follow the mindset of an authoritarian with that mindset. Going from identifying certain books as "corruptive" to banning them is a small step
just say you disagree with Evola (i hope you actually read it, considering you have such strong opinions about it). thats enough. you dont need to form value judgements and act all high and mighty by putting your opinion in some self-made moral pedestal.
Bentley Johnson
Yet, you already follow the mindset of an authoritarian with that way of thinking*
