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Even more specific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
by input_sh 1y ago
Even more specific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
- jorblumesea 1y agoneo-fascism because eggs were expensive, nice job American voters.
- jaoane 1y agoIt's not surprising that people chose being able to afford food over intellectualism.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoit's hard to tell if you're acknowledging the false dichotomy, or advocating for one side of it.
- jorblumesea 1y agoAmericans can afford food. We are nowhere close to 19th century french peasant levels of problems. Imagine throwing 300 years of democracy and tradition out the window because food prices went up 30%. It went up all over the world but America is the only place that is actively throwing bricks through our own windows. reads more like a childish temper tantrum than any coherent political move.
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- geodel 1y agoI think poet Maya Angelou got this right with: “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Seems like lot of voters weren't feeling good in previous administration.
- chneu 1y agoNewt Gingrich dropped the famous "feels over reals" line on CNN. "You have your facts on the left and we have our facts on the right" is basically what he said. Along with "If people feel one way then that's real." He isn't wrong, but he openly admitted to manipulating people to get them to feel certain ways. https://youtu.be/xnhJWusyj4I https://youtu.be/xnhJWusyj4I
- anigbrowl 1y agoQuite so. The country's current travails are the product of a decades-long effort: https://users.wfu.edu/zulick/454/gopac.html https://users.wfu.edu/zulick/454/gopac.html
- suzzer99 1y agoThey chose transphobia and xenophobia over intellectualism. Eggs were just an excuse to nudge them in the way their amygdalae wanted to go. See: Trump telling his base to suck it up on egg prices, and suddenly no one cares anymore.
- chneu 1y agoLol no. White Americans are upset that theyre being held responsible for our racist and bigoted past. Trump is a result of white Americans having to deal with our racist past and the reaction. Unfortunately nobody likes to be told their success is built on slavery and theft, so we wind up with this wild backlash. This is a tantrum from white Americans who don't want to be called racist, transphobic, even though they are. A month or two ago a podcast, I believe Radiolab, straight up asked the woman who was responsible for many of the book bans in the US. Her reply was seriously that she didn't want her kids to feel bad for what their ancestors did. It's seriously just a tantrum from white Americans who want to deny our history. That's the most American thing I can possibly imagine. I wish I was kidding but that's really what it is. White Americans get suuuuper upset if you bring up these things. Remember when Hilldog called trump supporters "deplorables" and his ratings shot up?
- zeven7 1y agoThat is extremely concerning
- input_sh 1y agoCurtis Yarvin really needs to become a household name in a know-thy-enemy sort of way. That should've happened back when J.D. Vance was even announced as Trump's VP pick. That should've happened even more back when Yarvin attended Trump's inaugural gala as a guest of honour.
- munchler 1y agoThe name is as dumb as the movement. Do they not realize that the word “enlightenment” has the word “light” right there inside it? It’s like asking for cold hot water.
- makeitdouble 1y agoUsing cognitive dissonance is a tried and true way to stop people from thinking too much about what you're really trying to say.
- miffy900 1y agoFrom the wikipedia article: > Curtis Yarvin began constructing the basis of the ideology in the late 2000 Ah yes of course this dude is involved. The more I read about Curtis Y, the more I believe he suffers from some sort of undiagnosed mental illness.
- input_sh 1y agoNo work of fiction prepared me for the most influential "intellectual" to be a dude with a Substack blog that acts as a how-to guide on how to overturn a democracy, which is then followed by the most powerful country in the world a full election cycle after it started being written.
- CamperBob2 1y agoAt this point, if it turns out Yarvin's real name is Randall Flagg, I wouldn't even blink.
- zeven7 1y agoFrom what I remember, not that far from Peter Wiggin's character in Ender's Game?