AtdTDA: Your Answers Questioned

[Monte Davis]

Robin quotes Evola:

>      For 
>      there are two worlds, one of which has separated 
>      itself by cutting off nearly every contact with the past. 
>      For the great majority of moderns, that means any 
>      possibility of understanding the traditional world has 
>      been completely lost.

Yes, yes... And yet... this is another instance of one of the master tropes
of *modernity*, that we're adrift after NNN years or centuries of restful
anchor. And it always feels so right. And yet i8t may be useful to raise two
partial challenges:

1) Among the spinoffs of modernity are history and the historical sciences
(archaeology, paleontogy, paleo-this and that, all the way to Big Bang
cosmology). With their aid, we in fact *know* much more about the past than
pre-moderns did. I love Morte d'Arthur and The Once and Future King, but
neither has much to do with what actually happened in the British isles
500-1400 AD (and White knew that much better than Malory had). Wren
Provenance's Anasazi rock drawings tell an important story, but I don't
trust its "truth" much past a couple generations -- the historical sciences
at least hold promise that you, feckless untethered Robin, could have a
clearer picture of what proto-Anasazi were doing in 500 AD than the Anasazi
of 1000 AD did. 

2) Could psychological projection of the family constellation be at work
here? When I was a child, I was encountering weird new "I don't know what to
do here" situations all the time - but there were the grownups, who had it
all sussed out (and, even though they *claimed* to have been kids once
themselves, had obviously been grownups forever). 

For what it's worth, my own suspicion is that the sensation of "all is
off-kilter in a world changing Too Damn Fast" got going about the time we
started making fire and knapping flint, if not before. Not that there hasn't
been acceleration, but with Einstein I have doubts that there ever was
anything corresponding to this reified, hypostasized notion of "at rest"...