Not a big Fuentes guy, but he’s 100% right about metapolitics, Trump aesthetics, and Vaporwave calling back to a past conception of a glorious modernist future.
@AaronWriterAC@RAZ0RFIST I've said it before - Bowden in his juvenile comic-book/Americana appreciating modernist mode would have DUG Donald like Dickie Spencer did before he became a fag.
{Someone} once said “Wouldn’t it be better if we presented ourselves as the victims?”
The problem with doing that is that it’s what everyone else does... if you concentrate on pain and defeat you will breed resentment, and I believe {these} are... to be avoided.
@AaronWriterAC@RAZ0RFIST@BowdenBot And if you have a decline and you have a desire to assert yourself to arrest the decline, and you have to apologize to yourself about even having the idea of assertion to arrest decline, you’re not going to get anywhere, are you?
@AaronWriterAC@RAZ0RFIST@BowdenBot {If someone says} you’re descended from brigands... you say “I’m not going to bother about figures and who did what to whom; I’ve overcome that!”
They may say “That’s a bit illiberal.”
And you say “Liberalism is moral syphilis, and I’m stepping over it!”
@AaronWriterAC@RAZ0RFIST@BowdenBot I believe we’ve created a modern world that has been taken away from what it could have been. If people with our sorts of values ruled modernity, everything about this society would be at one level the same, and in every other respect completely different...
@AaronWriterAC@RAZ0RFIST@BowdenBot People would still drive contemporary cars, There’d still be jets, and there’d still be supercomputers and so on, but the texture and the nature of life would be different...
Trump's represented hope for a normal republic, not an empire
The GAE led to all MAGA opposed. He was a critique of policies predicated on American strength that destroyed the roots of that strength, and the movement conservatism that legitimised and did not threaten the system.
Everything, from free trade to civil rights to a loose immigration policy to missionary foreign wars for liberal democracy is an outgrowth of the cold war machine that should have been turned off in the 1990s.
Oh well, Pat Buchanan tried.
Everything repugnant about American politics, from the Post-Marxist liberal racialist moralism to the hostility to the historic American nation comes from the proposition nation - which started with Lincoln but was supercharged by the FDR admin/JFK - is inherently imperialistic.