Regarding Platonism and decline, some arguing Platonic forms leads directly to gender theory

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Plato has the myth of love and the original being. It is important to note that Aristophanes tells it, so it is a comic myth. The original being is a monstrous, Janus-like figure, conjoined of different sexes or the same sex. They attack the Olympians, just as the Titans had. Then Zeus cuts them in half to weaken them, and afterwards each searches for its missing half. This striving is a pursuit of wholeness, and is not only a question of sex but of monstrous creation.
The conclusion seems to be that love is brought to perfection through conflict with our monstrous nature. There must be order and reunification of the original being, but humans must not try to attack the Olympians. To find the gods and to die together is the highest act of love. This is an overcoming of monstrous nature rather than denial of it, or trying to remain at a distance.

If anything, the trans problem seems to be the exact opposite contradiction: the impossibility or fear of finding love, one's other half, and a return to monstrous nature in the most secure way possible, by technical means. It is the fear of a higher metamorphosis. I won't say this is entirely a problem of physicalism or materialism, but if there is intellectual intuition there must also be something like a physicalist noumenon. Physicalism does not solve the problem that there is something completely unknown to man, that he is a mystery to himself, that his will is another form of monstrous creation.
While metaphysics can become lost in abstraction, the physicalist being denies the problem completely, or simply tries to include it as part of his overwhelming force. And therein lies the problem, the unknown may be the absolute and monstrous force to begin with, the first cause or coarse lie. Whether the unknown came first, whether it is an inherited affliction or one developed through faults, it announces a new beginning, it is an exception to our being. To deny it can only end in ruin – as with Zeus cutting man in half again, weakening him further.

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Conspiracy theory is an attempt of the purely technical mind to grasp the world of myth and intellectual intuition. That is, a world to which it does not belong.

'That which is most sorely affected today is the instinct and will of tradition: all institutions which owe their origin to this instinct, are opposed to the tastes of the age. At bottom, nothing is thought or done which is not calculated to tear up this spirit of tradition by its roots. Tradition is looked upon as a fatality; it is studied and acknowledged (in the form of a "heredity"), but people will have nothing to do with it. The extension of one will over long periods of time, the selection of conditions and valuations which make it possible to dispose of centuries in advance—this, precisely, is what is most utterly anti-modern. From which it follows, that disorganizing principles give it age its specific character.'

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power

'The means employed in former times in order to arrive at similarly constituted and lasting types, throughout long generations: entailed property and the respect of parents (the origin of the faith in gods and heroes as ancestors). Now, the subdivision of property belongs to the opposite tendency. The centralization of an enormous number of different interests in one soul: which, to that end, must be very strong and mutable. ...

The modern man is lacking in unfailing instinct (instinct being understood here to mean that which is the outcome of a long period of activity in the same occupation on the part of one family of men); the incapability of producing anything perfect, is simply the result of this lack of instinct: one individual alone cannot make up for the schooling his ancestors should have transmitted to him.'

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power

Nietzsche gets close to great truths but often manages to still sorely miss the mark, and this is no exception. The greatness of traditional man does not come from a sort of pure instinct like the 'noble savage,' but an orchestrated conscious intention. It is instead modern man who is above all driven by instinct alone. The modern phenomenon of the great specialization of man is also responsible for a large part of his great reduction to mere instinctual animal, a collective herd. It is not in specialized lineages of man that artistry of all types finds its outlet; Nietzsche's purely material 'ancestors' did not breed the artists he longs to have return. Instead, the secret initiatory societies of the guilds and their apprenticeships (which are really adoption into a paternal lineage of an art) are not at all hereditary or instinctual, but are still very ancestral and familial in a higher, spiritual, and more important sense.

We will continue studying Nietzsche as a sparring exercise. We still agree with many of the same reasonable criticisms that idealists who have not read him lay against Nietzsche, however this prejudice has only sharpened in accuracy, enough to become actually valuable to ourselves. Any study is an opportunity to find the truth, like the warrior who finds God on the battlefield.

“So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.”
~ Rousseau

“Remember the old Dzogchen adages ‘intellectual understanding is like a patch, it wears out,’ and ‘mystical or psychedelic experience is like mist, it fades away.’ Even adepts can be deceived by trivial circumstances-good or bad-and can get lost in them. And even after the impact of meditation has hit the mind, unless it is cultivated continuously the profound precepts will remain only on the pages of a book. Real meditation cannot come out of an untamed mind, a wild approach or an undisciplined practice. You hoary meditators, still novices in practice, look out! You may die with salt encrusted minds!!”

Dudjom Rinpoche

"In other words, the original nature of human beings is a copy of the divine nature. Spiritual perfection is to realize one’s primordial & original nature, the divine nature latent in oneself."
- "The Tao of Islam", Sachiko Murata

Art: "An Evening of Summer End", Hiramatsu Reiji

'The most favorable obstacles and remedies of modernity:

1. Compulsory military service with real wars in which all joking is laid aside.
2. National thick-headedness (which simplifies and concentrates).
3. Improved nutrition (meat).
4. Increasing cleanliness and wholesomeness in the home.
5. The predominance of physiology over theology, morality, economics, and politics.
6. Military discipline in the exaction and practice of one's "duty" (it is no longer customary to praise).'

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power