- 16 Nov 2016 12:29
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Au contraire, the alt-right is the ultimate affirmation of Derrida, et al. They have fashioned a notional reality, and by force of will have enshrined it as the new consensus. The idea that they have some kind of respect for a reality that exists outside their minds is rather laughable. At any rate, this is precisely what trolling is all about: undermining the perceptual foundation of existing consensus. What could be more continental than that?
(That being said, they are still assholes.)
EDIT: Your point about "rootless anti-fascism hysteria" has merit. The left needs to lay down some markers about what an actual fascist agenda would look like, so that they can properly react at the proper time. People being diasppeared? Political opponents rounded up and segregated into stadiums, etc? Dudes in three-cornered hats storming the legislature? Don't cry wolf too many times, folks. Ultimately, your predictions will come true, but will anybody still be listening?
Donald wrote:Maybe, I think it's primarily caused by the state of continental philosophy, which has coincided with a spectacular decline in Western academic standards. At the same time there is a refinement of their theories alongside an increasing degree of hostility to those ideas that now has them on the defensive.
In my opinion the Alt-Right is the beginning of a New Sincerity or post-ironic politics. The Left cannot shoot them or barricade them because they do not have any alternatives themselves except rootless anti-fascism hysteria, so in many ways the trolling class have become masters of the incoming zeitgeist.
Au contraire, the alt-right is the ultimate affirmation of Derrida, et al. They have fashioned a notional reality, and by force of will have enshrined it as the new consensus. The idea that they have some kind of respect for a reality that exists outside their minds is rather laughable. At any rate, this is precisely what trolling is all about: undermining the perceptual foundation of existing consensus. What could be more continental than that?
(That being said, they are still assholes.)
EDIT: Your point about "rootless anti-fascism hysteria" has merit. The left needs to lay down some markers about what an actual fascist agenda would look like, so that they can properly react at the proper time. People being diasppeared? Political opponents rounded up and segregated into stadiums, etc? Dudes in three-cornered hats storming the legislature? Don't cry wolf too many times, folks. Ultimately, your predictions will come true, but will anybody still be listening?
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. -Antonio Gramsci