You know, I recently discovered this video, and only after listening to it has the full ramifications of the nihilism inherent in the alt-right fully sunk in (and bear in mind, this is from someone who put "We're all nihilists now" in their sig just after Trump got elected):
They claim to be standing up for Western Culture, and its traditions, but, once you subtract everything they hate from the western tradition, there's bugger-all left. Some try to appeal to a fantasy about when women were women, men were men, and non-whites were out of sight (as explained in one Hbomberguy video), but many don't, and probably wouldn't even be able to relate to it, and at least part of it is because society has beaten them down that they rejoice in being called Deplorables. All that's left is a desire for power, and there's no endgame apart from being the one at the top. At least other conservative movements of the past were interested in preserving their culture; even Hitler was dedicated to showing off Germany's art (as long as the artists in question weren't Jewish or alive to actively oppose him):
What do today's alt-right have beyond just power fantasies and "triggering the libs?" Nothing. Close to a century and a half ago, Dostoevsky wrote a book about a revolution of nihilists. The most remarkable thing was that as prescient as he is, he failed to consider that perhaps they might actually have done better if they claimed a veneer (so thin it can only be applieded with the static electricity from a squirrel's-hair brush) of continuity with the conservatives like Stefan Trofimovich.
They claim to be standing up for Western Culture, and its traditions, but, once you subtract everything they hate from the western tradition, there's bugger-all left. Some try to appeal to a fantasy about when women were women, men were men, and non-whites were out of sight (as explained in one Hbomberguy video), but many don't, and probably wouldn't even be able to relate to it, and at least part of it is because society has beaten them down that they rejoice in being called Deplorables. All that's left is a desire for power, and there's no endgame apart from being the one at the top. At least other conservative movements of the past were interested in preserving their culture; even Hitler was dedicated to showing off Germany's art (as long as the artists in question weren't Jewish or alive to actively oppose him):
What do today's alt-right have beyond just power fantasies and "triggering the libs?" Nothing. Close to a century and a half ago, Dostoevsky wrote a book about a revolution of nihilists. The most remarkable thing was that as prescient as he is, he failed to consider that perhaps they might actually have done better if they claimed a veneer (so thin it can only be applieded with the static electricity from a squirrel's-hair brush) of continuity with the conservatives like Stefan Trofimovich.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
