But he also complains about "an immense secularization," which has "sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West"
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And what is extraordinary is that he doesn't see any causal link between these things.
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An idealized Victorian capitalism is somehow proof against capitalism's inherent tendency toward fungibility, rootlessness and secularity.
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This is an interesting move, as it shows the ways he is perhaps hemmed in by the ineradicable liberalism of US political imagination.
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His version of an embedded, enchanted social order is not, say, the Middle Ages--as with most anti-capitalist reactionaries.
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But rather the late Victorian haute bourgeoisie. Before WWI, Bolshevism and fascism.
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This is, to say the least, a very odd historical moment to recommend as the cure to late capitalist disenchantment and anomie.
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It is as if he read Weber but put the book down before getting to the part about the iron cage.
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Historical misapprehension is not an error, but rather the limits his commitment to "tea party" liberal bourgeois values imposes on reaction
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For all his name checking of Evola (in that speech), he cannot get beyond a bourgeois Christian enlightenment tradition.
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At the end of the day, he's just another classical liberal cuck.
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