Why is it that, relative to their mainland brothers, anglos have historically been more interested in the material and mundane?

>>21940436 (OP)

Blame Frege for importing that from Austria

Why is it that, relative to a smart person, you make sweeping generalizations of dubious merit?

Anglos are literally the platonic ideal of a hylic. They don't even have souls.

Good question.

>>21940436 (OP)

That's a recent phenomenon due to modern science and secular humanism. I know for a fact that occultism and mysticism were big in Angloland back in the day.

>>21940436 (OP)

>The English mentality, of course, has no aptitude for metaphysical conceptions, but it does not make any pretension in this respect either, while the German mentality, which is not really better endowed, has the greatest illusions. To realize this, we need only compare what the two peoples have produced in terms of philosophy. The English mind hardly left the practical order, represented by morality, sociology, and experimental science, represented by the science of psychology which it invented. When the English mind is concerned with logic, it is above all induction that he has in view and to which he gives preponderance over deduction. On the other hand, if we consider German philosophy, we only find in it hypotheses and systems with metaphysical pretensions, deductions from a fanciful starting point, ideas which might seem to be profound when they are simply nebulous; and this pseudo-metaphysics, which is everything that is farthest from true metaphysics, the Germans claim to find in others, whose conceptions they always interpret according to their own



Anglos:

> No Gnostic cults

> No mystics

> No esoteric societies



Meanwhile, in France...

We've had some occult/spiritual influence but it's mostly been in the form of cum-magic schizoids like Crowley.

In another thread recently one anon pointed out that a great deal of British history involves cruelty -- either being repeatedly subjugated or subjugation others and I agree that that probably has a lot to do with it. It's difficult to believe in a loving cosmos when your history is particularly long and particularly miserable. 

I'm generalising but I think the closest mindset to Anglos you'll find are Slavs -- extreme cynicism if not outright nihilism, with more than a few notable spiritualists being off-brand Christian mystics larping as sex magicians. They've also spent an awful lot of time brutalising or being brutalised so it's probably not a coincidence. Historical/cultural trauma makes for bitter people.

>be ancient briton

>just want to chillax neck deep in a swamp all day

>people literally won't stop invading you and subjugating you

>start fighting back and lose your soul

Ultimately, British mysticism would have involved bathing in a swamp so maybe it was better that they became the school-shooter of nations.

Generalizations are funny that’s why

>No Gnostic cults

>No esoteric societies

Masonry, for better or worse

John Dee and his buddies

>No mystics

Cambridge Platonists? The Cloud of Unknowing?

France is the same

Go read Zola

>briton

>anglo
