The first reflection is Yale philosophy professor’s Jason Stanley’s book “How Fascism Works.” In a very caricatured but also true sense, the book is a couple hundred page explanation of why Trump is Hitler. So, instead of looking straight at Fascism, like Perseus we’re going to look at reflections of fascism, three of them. Many snakeheads, all of them terrifying and grim. Directly considering Fascism is obviously “triggering.” It is the Medusa of politics, a regular Gorgon lurking in your political subconscious. What we would like to do, instead, is take you on a safe but thrilling ride into the scariest concept in the American English political unconscious: fascism. Talking about polarization is a cliché of shallow politics. They suspect that the managerial elite does not hold their best interests at heart. Red Americans, which Yarvin characterizes as “Hobbits”, distrust managers and elites. They believe in science, rationality, high moral values. Blue America, which Yarvin characterizes as “Elf” America, supports competent managerial rule. We’ll look more closely at his theory about fascism in our second reflection, but the framework of a “cold civil war” is a useful way to understand the current situation of managerial rule in the United States. The disease, not the symptomĪccording to Curtis Yarvin, the United States is now in a “cold civil war.” Yarvin is, according to his own description, America’s leading absolutist monarchist blogger. We manage our lives, we manage our careers, we manage nonprofits, we manage companies, we manage political campaigns, we manage states. Basically, in order to operate a train system at national size, you needed to create a new kind of administrative structure operated by a new class of human being: the manager. Railroads had already existed since the beginning of the 19th century, but the 1850s was when (in the United States, at least) they “scaled.” The book to read on this is “The Visible Hand” by Alfred Chandler, if you’d like to skip ahead, read chapter 3. The essay that begins, today, for instance goes all the way back to the 1850s. ĭeep politics, on the other hand, tends to have longer timespans. We wrote a very complicated article about this, which you can read here. A stereotypical zoomer consumes media in 15 second chunks, each chunk algorithmically fed. In fact, the attention cycle seems to be getting shorter and shorter. Although both the nature of events and the way we talk about these events changes, the short-term form persists. Something happens, people yell about it, and then something else happens. Shallow politics has a very rapid timespan, specifically, the time of the news cycle, which is somewhere between an hour and a week. Timespan is one way to think about what “deep” thinking means in terms of politics. What you’re reading right now is part of a book called DEEP SOCKS serialized on this Substack, that strives to answers the question “what is going on” at the deepest level possible. Grotesque mass shootings haunt the media, large blocs of left and right believe the state illegitimate, massive open air drug markets exist within global alpha cities. But now (it seems) that the apocalypse is coming closer to the United State. Normal is on the other end of the spectrum from apocalypse. One good definition of a “normal” person is someone who does not believe they are in the midst of an apocalyptic process. This vision made it extremely difficult to communicate. We thought the veil was lifted, and behind the veil we saw cops murdering innocent people in dead alleys, humans locked in cages forever, drone bomb death, ecocide, and the murder of environmental activists by a right-wing regime put into power by Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The word apocalypse comes from the Greek word apokalyptein, which means to uncover, disclose, pull away. For a long time it seemed like the space between us was too large to communicate over: more of an abyss than a gap. You may not think of yourself as a normie, but you do think that you are more “conventional” than us.
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