'Postmodernism = bad’ is key in the identity of conservative culture warriors.
Yet, they & postmodernists are close cousins on how they view the world.
See this claim by Yoram Hazony,
prominent intellectual of national conservatism,
on how truth is reached: What is he telling us?
We CANNOT reach a universal truth.
Different groups/traditions come to their own truth.
The horizon for knowledge is not reality out there,
but the consensus of the group in line with its tradition.
(quotes from 'Conservatism: a Rediscovery').

Why is National Conservatism becoming the dominant and popular force on the Right?
Because it fits like a glove the Right's two main characteristics:
Its lack of belief in individual agency, and its aversion to freedom. Why are conservatives so scared of change & see enemies everywhere, from AI to ‘Big Tech’?
Because, just like the Left, they see the individual as a weak & vulnerable subject.
Not trusting reason and agency, they see us as unable to cope in a frantic and changing world.

Impressive how every good principle in self-development books was captured & concretised decades earlier, in Ayn Rand’s work.
3 examples from Steven Pressfield’s ‘Turning Pro’, Darren Hardy’s ‘The Compound Effect’ & Bill Walsh’s ‘The Score Takes Care of Itself’.
THREAD!! In ‘Turning Pro’ Pressfield captures the process when one gets serious about his mission/calling in life, and goes all in on it.

With a crystal clear goal, now life becomes EASIER:

What I find more concerning in the cancellation of #GinaCarano is that it exposes the philistinism in today’s public sphere.
What did Carano do that was ‘abhorrent’? She tried, maybe unsuccessfully, to think based on principles. (...) ...She mentioned the ‘othering’ of Jews in Nazi Germany and how it later led to the horror of Holocaust and implied that something similar is happening in today’s public sphere.
Maybe her example was not tasteful, maybe she’s wrong…but…