24.09.09
Bennett’s heresies
One of the reasons I deal with Bennett and ‘give him a break’ as it were, is that his The Dramatic Universe, however confused, is an evolutionary scheme, and shows the historical blocks of evolution/history in their correct progressive aspect. Although his formulation is not standard, it is nonetheless closer to a modernist viewpoint than to the ‘ages of decline’ cyclical mythology that Danielou wrests from the history of Indian religion.
Bennet deserves a little consideration here then, and, indeed, we should at some point cite his discussion of modernity, and the emergence of democracy.
All these traditionalists, near whom we must include such figures as Gurdjieff, see modernity as a decline and its democracy as some aspect of that, with the crypto-fascist implications of their period analysis.