It is interesting to watch Putin turn to a totalising imperialism because once he got to the top there was nothing else left to do --- low affect psychopaths to a T I suspect
If you are finding "fine things" in hacks like Rufo and outright racists like Hanania, you have a big problem. Denying the existence of systemic racism in the US is an absurdity, which is why the Republicans have been trying to prohibit mention of the issue. That doesn't negate the importance of inequality (economic) class, gender and so on, all of which are being equally suppressed by the anti-wokes
Identitarian turns may or may not turn into small-c conservative caste systems, systems may or may not create divisions, or reinforce our propensities to be think/feel lazily, but if we do not police the narcissists who boundary ride them into power and influence, or chaos surf the conflict, then we are stuffed.
if one believes (e.g. 'hold dear', here---is loyal to an identity) in a social ontology, particular 'hard' ones that are completely made up, and defend their members on this basis, then you may have lost the war with the more self-centred who only used categories to inflict pain, any conflict then works in their favour, the conflict is the win. Material gain is merely a item of conspicuous display ( or power signalling) (think Putin & Trump's proclivities for Nouveau riche interiors). (This is why the poor can support being ripped-off by their chosen leader if the leader looks good).
Categories themselves should be erased not turned into rites and rituals. That is what a century of activism does I guess, creates a new arena of pain. If we deny a human need at one end of a self-centred spectrum to inflict pain and impose baboon-like hierarchies (the actual ontology of which is them immaterial) we may have missed the main game.
One reason why radical and extreme traditionalist conservatives dislike the cosmopolitan/deracinateing broad (egalitarian even) categories like 'human' is because it gives them less emotional purchase on particular identities, and they end up having to hate broad diffuse groups like "the elite", (categories which they put up with like a prisoner on starvation rations), this is why conspiracy feelings are central to their manoeuvres, even if they cannot all be true in any world even vaguely logical.
In Australia conspiracy feelings have manage to unite anti-vaxxer groups with pro-sovereignty first aboriginal groups, with evangelical believers, with racialists, with the generally disaffected.
For some reason the UNESCO human has no power. IN a conspiracy lens I first met in the 80s as the "grey men conspiracy", the UN is a shadowy world government run by "elite" capitalists (Jews I guess). Murdoch makes money out of this shit (is he a narcissist??).
It's as if there are no traditional conservatives, only radical disruptors who are motivated by hate, and try to drag in the fearful or anxious. They hate the world unless they control all of it. They project this control onto the UN and liberal values even though they are not in control at all.
They see conflict as the main way to get this power. Feel your anger Luke. Hate those who conspire against your specialness.
Prime candidates to be the flying monkeys of a narcissist or two. On all sides.
At the moment "UNESCO humans" are being opportunistically attacked by imperialists who call the proponents of this post-WW2 thang-- "nazis", and who can rally the troops, often who were the victim of older empires, with a battle cry against the world gub'mint/capitalist order such that they "unite" the disaffected/entitled members of the biggest current empire, Islamic imperialists of various nationalities, communist family firms, and the return of big man colonialism in Africa... etc... meanwhile while drug cartels takeover South America. It's a mess and no one is in control despite the conspiracy feelings, because look we have also have contrarian places on the wrong sides (so described), like the ghetto that is Gaza (where the rooted are uprooted by the rooting believers in rootedness such that only another narcissist Netanyahu wins), where the rooting believers have worked with Russia (and Iran) supporting the Assad regime in Syria, but then somehow Hamas works against Israel but Netanyahu wins. Turkey shoots down Russian aircraft over the Syrian/Turkish border but is equivocal about the Russian imperialism.
At the end of history these failing empires were suppose to slip away quietly into a capitalist liberal market, but they refuse to go down without a last go, and the pain they offer is indescribable attractive to radical conservatives, because traditional conservatives have failed to police their own (narcissists).
Like the poor, empires are always with us. Letting narcissists run/own either of them is disasterous for the world.
It is interesting to watch Putin turn to a totalising imperialism because once he got to the top there was nothing else left to do --- low affect psychopaths to a T I suspect
If you are finding "fine things" in hacks like Rufo and outright racists like Hanania, you have a big problem. Denying the existence of systemic racism in the US is an absurdity, which is why the Republicans have been trying to prohibit mention of the issue. That doesn't negate the importance of inequality (economic) class, gender and so on, all of which are being equally suppressed by the anti-wokes
It was a review of five books. Please pay attention.
Identitarian turns may or may not turn into small-c conservative caste systems, systems may or may not create divisions, or reinforce our propensities to be think/feel lazily, but if we do not police the narcissists who boundary ride them into power and influence, or chaos surf the conflict, then we are stuffed.
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/whats-at-stake-in-the-war-on-woke
if one believes (e.g. 'hold dear', here---is loyal to an identity) in a social ontology, particular 'hard' ones that are completely made up, and defend their members on this basis, then you may have lost the war with the more self-centred who only used categories to inflict pain, any conflict then works in their favour, the conflict is the win. Material gain is merely a item of conspicuous display ( or power signalling) (think Putin & Trump's proclivities for Nouveau riche interiors). (This is why the poor can support being ripped-off by their chosen leader if the leader looks good).
Categories themselves should be erased not turned into rites and rituals. That is what a century of activism does I guess, creates a new arena of pain. If we deny a human need at one end of a self-centred spectrum to inflict pain and impose baboon-like hierarchies (the actual ontology of which is them immaterial) we may have missed the main game.
One reason why radical and extreme traditionalist conservatives dislike the cosmopolitan/deracinateing broad (egalitarian even) categories like 'human' is because it gives them less emotional purchase on particular identities, and they end up having to hate broad diffuse groups like "the elite", (categories which they put up with like a prisoner on starvation rations), this is why conspiracy feelings are central to their manoeuvres, even if they cannot all be true in any world even vaguely logical.
In Australia conspiracy feelings have manage to unite anti-vaxxer groups with pro-sovereignty first aboriginal groups, with evangelical believers, with racialists, with the generally disaffected.
For some reason the UNESCO human has no power. IN a conspiracy lens I first met in the 80s as the "grey men conspiracy", the UN is a shadowy world government run by "elite" capitalists (Jews I guess). Murdoch makes money out of this shit (is he a narcissist??).
It's as if there are no traditional conservatives, only radical disruptors who are motivated by hate, and try to drag in the fearful or anxious. They hate the world unless they control all of it. They project this control onto the UN and liberal values even though they are not in control at all.
They see conflict as the main way to get this power. Feel your anger Luke. Hate those who conspire against your specialness.
Prime candidates to be the flying monkeys of a narcissist or two. On all sides.
At the moment "UNESCO humans" are being opportunistically attacked by imperialists who call the proponents of this post-WW2 thang-- "nazis", and who can rally the troops, often who were the victim of older empires, with a battle cry against the world gub'mint/capitalist order such that they "unite" the disaffected/entitled members of the biggest current empire, Islamic imperialists of various nationalities, communist family firms, and the return of big man colonialism in Africa... etc... meanwhile while drug cartels takeover South America. It's a mess and no one is in control despite the conspiracy feelings, because look we have also have contrarian places on the wrong sides (so described), like the ghetto that is Gaza (where the rooted are uprooted by the rooting believers in rootedness such that only another narcissist Netanyahu wins), where the rooting believers have worked with Russia (and Iran) supporting the Assad regime in Syria, but then somehow Hamas works against Israel but Netanyahu wins. Turkey shoots down Russian aircraft over the Syrian/Turkish border but is equivocal about the Russian imperialism.
At the end of history these failing empires were suppose to slip away quietly into a capitalist liberal market, but they refuse to go down without a last go, and the pain they offer is indescribable attractive to radical conservatives, because traditional conservatives have failed to police their own (narcissists).
Like the poor, empires are always with us. Letting narcissists run/own either of them is disasterous for the world.