None of these ideas are offered as intellectual decoration. They matter because the alternative is to be fully shaped by an age that has lost the vertical dimension.
Most people will live and die inside the horizontal view without ever questioning it. A smaller number will feel the narrowness of that view and look for something else. These readings are for the second group. The goal is not to create a new political movement or a new set of slogans. The goal is the formation of a certain type of man: one who can remain upright, inwardly ordered, and oriented toward what is higher, even when the surrounding world offers him no support for that stance.
You will meet resistance. Some of it will come from outside. More of it will come from habits already installed in you by the age. Both are expected. The work is to keep the standard clear and to measure yourself against it without theatrical rebellion and without quiet surrender.
That is enough for a beginning. The next phase moves from orientation into a clearer diagnosis of the modern world and the practical stance required to live inside it without being absorbed by it.