Ride the Tiger

Riding the Tiger here refers to the process of navigating one's way in today's global industrial civilization. This culture is the tiger, the beast to be reckoned with. It is too large and powerful to take down by yourself or even with a group of people. However ride it we must until the time comes when we must jump of the beast. I am actually stealing the phrase from Julius Evola who wrote a book with the very same title. This work is penetrating and deeply philsophical. His perspective, complex and uncompromising, is only for an elect few. Essentially he says we should utilise these degenerate times as a personal technique for spiritual reflection. In some ways it is easier to become philosophically detatched from the world when it is such a mass of chaos and contradiction, corruption and degeneration. Compared to earlier times when say the beauty of nature, or the purity of a principle, or the integrity of an individual could inspire a man beyond himself. This in some ways is the spiritual function of the industrial modern era. Putting an ugly face on that which is really ugly.