/lit/ - Literature

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the thing is that the Human Security System functions on both wings of the political spectrum (as much as - although this is an obsession of my own- one can use the Jung/Campbell 3/Act hero myth to make progaganda for *any* possible cause). there seem to be in the human mind aspects of form which trump those of content.

i have said before that i am not interested in making the word Fascism any more of a taboo than it already is. it describes a certain process, cultural and historical, with economic and psychological aspects, that is wrapped up with the meaning of *modernity* more than any particular geographical locale: let's not forget that the Japanese go down the same road as the Germans do (or, more subtly, that the Italian expression of this was a different one than the Germans). and *all* of this, to my mind, returns to this idea of the Human Security System, the (impossible-to-ever-finish) critique of ideology, and so on. and what we have seen play out in a generation is proof positive of all of this: we went from Skepticism Towards All Metanarrative to Whose Side Are You On in about thirty years. and we are doubling down on that ever more with every passing day.

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i have serious reservations about wanting to talk about race. i really do. even Land - as crusty and cold a writer as one could ever hope for - wants to keep the conversation at minimum to IQ (or genes), but this to my mind is to open Pandora's Box.

politics is death to philosophy and theory. the point where we stop talking about the ideas and start talking about Who Belongs is where i find i need to take the Pause That Refreshes. genes and IQ are a preoccupation of Old Nick, but they weren't a preoccupation of Young Nick, and to my mind Young Nick > Old Nick. Old Nick writes Teleoplexy and lots of other good stuff that imho just doesn't need to go down that road, which winds towards eugenics and other stuff that is the real wheelhouse of the far right.

race, class, and gender are *The Metanarratives* of metanarratives. the historical destinies of 20C fascism *and* communism tell us where picking your "favorite" one of these takes you. the Germans opted for race and the Soviets opted for class. the postmodern Cathedral of today has opted for a powerful but very unstable fusion of all three of these in an absolutely doomed attempt to negate the fundamentally disequilibriating power of Capital *in advance* by inscribing all of it on the commodity as ideology, as pharmakon. Woke Capital is the result.

personally, i think that the rise of right-wing politics (in the UK at least) speaks to the *return of class sensibility,* which is the underdog against the Cathedral/GIT/media powers that have weaponized race and gender. and those will draw upon the real far-right race perspectives: the actual and unironic fascists. but this is what happens when the Left has only one weapon to use, as one who has only a hammer can only see the nail everywhere.