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Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession of our most archaic roots, which is to say those most suited to the victorious life.

Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession of our most archaic roots, which is to say those most suited to the victorious life.

Guillaume Faye
Past, Roots, Matter
Guillaume Faye (2010). “Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-catastrophic Age”, p.14, Arktos

We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving up: this is the time to seize the reins. Present society is an accomplice to the evil that is devouring it.

Guillaume Faye
Giving Up, Cities, Evil
Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.18, Arktos

The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they deplete a civilization's vital energies and weaken its defensive or affirmative capacities.

Guillaume Faye
Civilization, Weakness, Energy

We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is now devouring us. It is a matter of returning to archaic and ancestral values, while at the same time envisioning the future as something more than the extension of the present.

Guillaume Faye
Restoration, Matter, Pox
Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.18, Arktos

In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle, the main goal must be to awaken people’s consciences, raising traumatising problems and sending ideological electroshocks: shocking ideas.

Guillaume Faye
Ideas, People, Imagination
Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.15, Arktos

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