/lit/ - Literature

>>12662180
>anti-Semitic is just a person that jews don't like. If you know anything about the culture, religion, actions of the jewish group at large, the kindest person will at least want separation from them.
yeah, but Fascist or Hateful Bigot is a person the left doesn't like also. i am saddened by this general decline in civility and tolerance, and i think it has a common root at the bottom: it's just scapegoating. it's a psychological condition before it is a cultural or ethnographic one. people should be able to get along, ultimately. there's no reason why we can't. does idpol suck? of course it does.

this is going to sound silly, but i think one of the more under-appreciated contributions to pop culture was the inclusion of Blood Elves in WoW, another example of American Ingenuity applied to the Tolkien legendarium that led to surprisingly interesting results. the Blood Elves are unironically Racist White Guy Elves, and they're strangely lovable for their dementia and nostalgia.

to be tribalist is part of being human, and even a broken clock like Jared Taylor is right twice a day in this: it's true, people have a right to be different, to do their own thing, to preserve that which they choose to preserve and so on. i guess my own feeling is just that - unfortunately - now is not a time when that is going to be possible in a kind of anachronistic and old-fashioned way. for better and for worse, we are all getting smashed together now by capital and tech, by media, by teleoplexy, by a whole bunch of other things. those old differences aren't going to go away anytime soon, they are arguably even ineradicable, they may well and truly be just hard-wired into our cultural DNA. and these things to some degree have to be accepted, and now and again can even be affirmed.

but it is One World Under Gnon. this is where some degree of sobering Malthusianism (or Landianism) is required. we *want* something like WoW, in a way (or Warhammer 40K). and we can recognize this in each other. we can *also* recognize that business and trade links the world together, and it links the world together in a way which is *much much better* than 19C theories of mythology and violence. we *have* to get along in this world, together. we really don't have a choice. especially not in the West. there are a lot of conversations that really do need to be had about these things, and they are going to be incredibly difficult to have, but they have to be done, and i think the temptation to become a rage zombie will be overwhelming.

this is why i thought in the Peterson-Harris debates it was actually Douglas Murray who made a lot of good points: it wasn't about Religion vs Atheism, it was that religion and religious thought played a crucial and invaluable role in moderating a lot of political decisions.