Julius Evola wrote about esoteric mythology, mountain climbing, and fascism. His concept of the world was as a series of tests for survival, allowing the better to rise above the rest, except as interrupted by a modern world of utterly trivial "meanings." His view of the esoteric contradicts the one-size-fits-all vision of modernity which most of us are taught from a young age, and his theoretical abstraction of fascism will be interesting to those new to the topic.