People always had their favorite columnists, of course, and wrote letters to the editor. But I propose that in our present environment the vogue thing is attachment to a particular figure in *journalism* (as nominally opposed to politics); each "journalist" -- nay, "influencer" -- may now excite their affective legions in…
People always had their favorite columnists, of course, and wrote letters to the editor. But I propose that in our present environment the vogue thing is attachment to a particular figure in *journalism* (as nominally opposed to politics); each "journalist" -- nay, "influencer" -- may now excite their affective legions into executing their pronunciamentos, at least in ephemeral as opposed to concrete existence.
Which is to say that we're all living in Mussolini's world now. Hitler was just a sad little man. Imagine Adolf's Twitter feed: "Hier ist Schätze. Sie ist ein guter Welpe, der Bananen mag. süß!"
Fascism was regression to tribalistic hero myth, charismatic "man of action: leadership, and the mystical "will of the people", in the era of (failed) industrial "progress". All of that was presumably a reaction to the anxiety over "the death of God" (the death of traditional alter-and-crown social-spiritual order), no?
Fascism was both a victim narrative and an oppressor narrative, and the bizarre contradiction was possible because of Fascism's origins in romanticism, anti-rationalism and illiberalism.
The internet era's myth is the Hermes archetype, god of information, deception, and boundary violations. (postmodern deconstruction, relativism, nihilism)
Network effects (interactivity) are disruptive to the conventional, liberal narrative: modern systematic rationalism, hierarchies of curated top down expertise.
The result of the disruption is social fragmentation and atomization, loss of the high-social-trust bond that came into existence as liberal-capitalist "democracy" evolved.
In the USA it seems more likely that the biggest crack in the system will be along the lines of the cultural and genetic fault lines of the US Civil War: unionists vs neoconfederates. The confederacy was more of a Rump Aristocracy (a dim echo of alter-and-crown) than "fascist".
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not sure what this references, sorry:
"Hier ist Schätze. Sie ist ein guter Welpe, der Bananen mag. süß!"
google translate:
"Here's treasures. She is a good puppy who likes bananas. sweet!"
...the internet?
People always had their favorite columnists, of course, and wrote letters to the editor. But I propose that in our present environment the vogue thing is attachment to a particular figure in *journalism* (as nominally opposed to politics); each "journalist" -- nay, "influencer" -- may now excite their affective legions into executing their pronunciamentos, at least in ephemeral as opposed to concrete existence.
Which is to say that we're all living in Mussolini's world now. Hitler was just a sad little man. Imagine Adolf's Twitter feed: "Hier ist Schätze. Sie ist ein guter Welpe, der Bananen mag. süß!"
Fascism was regression to tribalistic hero myth, charismatic "man of action: leadership, and the mystical "will of the people", in the era of (failed) industrial "progress". All of that was presumably a reaction to the anxiety over "the death of God" (the death of traditional alter-and-crown social-spiritual order), no?
Fascism was both a victim narrative and an oppressor narrative, and the bizarre contradiction was possible because of Fascism's origins in romanticism, anti-rationalism and illiberalism.
The internet era's myth is the Hermes archetype, god of information, deception, and boundary violations. (postmodern deconstruction, relativism, nihilism)
Network effects (interactivity) are disruptive to the conventional, liberal narrative: modern systematic rationalism, hierarchies of curated top down expertise.
The result of the disruption is social fragmentation and atomization, loss of the high-social-trust bond that came into existence as liberal-capitalist "democracy" evolved.
In the USA it seems more likely that the biggest crack in the system will be along the lines of the cultural and genetic fault lines of the US Civil War: unionists vs neoconfederates. The confederacy was more of a Rump Aristocracy (a dim echo of alter-and-crown) than "fascist".
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not sure what this references, sorry:
"Hier ist Schätze. Sie ist ein guter Welpe, der Bananen mag. süß!"
google translate:
"Here's treasures. She is a good puppy who likes bananas. sweet!"
the genetics of the neoconfederate fault line?
https://medium.com/s/balkanized-america/the-11-nations-of-america-as-told-by-dna-f283d4c58483
postmodernism also creates a kaleidoscope of victim narratives, romanticism, anti-rationalism and illiberalism (on both the right and left).