Buddhists within European Fascism: the Occult Origins of Nazi Ideology.

the history of world war ii is one of
those peculiar topics where the teacher or professor never needs to pause to explain to the class why does this matter students never raise their hands and demand to know why do we need to study this at all if any of you in the audience know what it's like to teach math if you know what it's like to teach french grammar you know what it's like to have students put up their hands and demand to know why are you teaching this to me anyway why does this matter somehow it's very clear to everyone that our understanding our narrative that we've construed and asserting the world about what happened in world war ii and why it matters and what it means to us today this is something quite integral to each of us individually in how we fashion our own political identity in the 21st century and for many countries around the world their sense of identity and purpose is still to this day formed by world war ii oh you you think i'm just talking about the united states you think i'm just talking about australia and canada or or germany or france have you heard of india have you ever thought about the way world war ii is linked to the decline and fall of the british empire and how those countries achieved independence have you thought for a minute about what world war ii means to them it's a big deal it's it's been a big deal for a while and it's going to continue to be a big deal and of course what you mostly see on the internet is right-wing demagogues who are challenging the official narrative about what happened in world war ii uh for completely insincere and frankly evil reasons and most of us who are maybe moderates pragmatists in the center or left of center most of us don't ever stop to think maybe there's really some benefit for us also in going back and re-examining the roots of fascism the origins of nazi ideology in europe and in evaluating the extent to which we ourselves maybe were raised with propaganda even if that propaganda were constructed and construed and taught to us with no bad intentions whatsoever i'll give you an example my father had this aesthetic sense that to refer to adolf hitler as a madman to refer to fascism or nazism as insanity uh was childish that that was a sort of unsophisticated redneck view of history whereas he felt and he conditioned me to think also uh it was erudite and sophisticated to evaluate what adolf hitler did as if it were a rational response to economic conditions after world war one this may sound familiar to a lot of you in the audience i think a lot of school teachers primary school high school even in university consciously or unconsciously they want to rationalize what happened in this period of history and in doing so they are constructing a program frankly they're giving a version of history that's flattering to adapt hitler and the nazis even if what they mean to do is to condemn it as harshly as possible in rationalizing that chapter of history you are ipso facto necessarily sweeping under the rug occult elements esoteric elements spirituality and remarkably in the year 2020 it's very clear to say those spiritual esoteric occult elements are the elements now being revived that are popular once again in the form preserved in the writings of julius evilla i prefer to pronounce his name evola so that it rhymes with ebola but sadly the name is pronounced julius evola here's a google engram chart showing you the resurgence in popularity since the year 2000 and and keep in mind google engram is only showing you how many times this name appeared in print in books this is not capturing how many times this guy is being discussed on podcasts on youtube on websites like the original alt-right alt-right.com the new age person never wants to go deep beyond the surface level feel good aspects of their philosophies which makes it the perfect religion for the new world order because it allows its followers to be internally detached it gives them a way to spiritually amuse themselves but nothing more now the difference with uh tradition is that there are several schools of fully developed thought where the path requires a real effort and will challenge the person to grow and develop with any traditional path you have to put in actual work and there's no easy victories no fluffy feel good answers [Music] so some aspects of tradition might be very appealing to new agers like the ones who quote the buddha and put statues of him in their gardens but it's ultimately just a fashion statement for them to them the buddha was just this witty guy who makes them feel good but as soon as buddhism starts demanding genuine effort from them they move on to the next feel-good thing one of the reasons why his name is manny devotes so much on social media is that he's one of the few remaining philosophers of nazism whose name will not result in you immediately getting banned from these same social media websites and and why is that it's because julius evela unlike unlike a guy like rosenberg right rosenberg was more influential when they were both alive he was more of an official spokesperson for and mouthpiece for the nazi party and he also wrote about so-called spiritual racism very closely comparable uh uh this guy evola he kind of has a peg that he can hang his hat on as a buddhist scholar