Amigos de Miguel Serrano

Professor Woodrow Wilson told his Atlantic Monthly readers that the freed slaves and their descendants were unprepared for freedom. The freedmen were "unpracticed in liberty, unschooled in self control, never sobered by the discipline of self support, never established in any habit of prudence... insolent and aggressive, sick of work, [and] covetous of pleasure." Jim Crow was needed, Wilson said, because without it, black Americans "were a danger to themselves as well as to those whom they had once served." When President Wilson arrived in Washington, his administration re-segregated the federal government, hounding from office large numbers of black federal employees.

It was leisure of a very specific type. The Roman aristocracy, as Nietzsche says, had the motto otium et bellum, leisure and war, these being the only right ways of life for a man of power and freedom. In Celine's Journey to the End of the Night I think he says at one point that his landlady, otherwise a modest woman, had an aristocratic contempt for labor; this was but an idle vestige and he makes fun of it. By his time, the last flower of the Aryan aristocracy had been extinguished, as Nietzsche says: in French Revolution, a mass revolt of racial slaves that remade Europe and took it on the downward path. Then there was another peripheral aboriginal revolt in 1917, that plunged Europe into a civil war from which it still hasn't recovered.

Le qualità di carattere stanno per noi più in alto di quelle di un astratto intelletto o di una vana creatività artistica. Un uomo che, semi-illetterato ha vivo il sentimento di onore e di fedeltà, per noi vale di più di un accademico laureato narcisista pronto ad ogni cortigianeria pur di farsi avanti o di uno scienziato vigliacco: e più in alto di tutto, stanno per noi i valori eroici ed ascetici, unici a giustificare la vita con qualcosa, che è «più che vita». - Julius Evola