The beginning of this process is to be traced to the time when Western man broke the ties to Tradition, claiming for himself as an individual a vain and illusory freedom; when he became an atom in society, rejecting every higher symbol of authority and sovereignty in a system of hierarchies.
To go back to the origins means, plainly and simply, to reject everything that in any domain (whether social, political, or economic) is connected to the "immortal principles" of 1789, as a libertarian, individualistic, and egalitarian thought, and to oppose it with the hierarchical view, in the context of which alone the notion, value, and freedom of man as person are not reduced to mere words or excuses for a work of destruction and subversion.
-Julius Evola, from Men Amongst the Ruins
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