1. I have some thoughts on Ayn Rand, Marcus Aurelius, the mafioso Frank Costello, the Benedict Option, LSD, Little Orphan Annie, Libertarian Zionism, & solar power.
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2. There's a longstanding fantasy on the American right of opting out of society -- going Galt, the Benedict Option, seasteading -- it's worth tracing the origins.
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3. Arguably American secessionism is rooted in the very DNA of USA (which was born breaking away & then had a Civil War ignited by slave owning secessionist)
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4. But for purposes of understanding modern right, earlier sessessionist impulses came in 1930s, when triumph of New Deal fed fantasies of escaping from mainstream society.
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5. A key theoretical moment was Albert Jay Nock's essay "Isaiah' Job" (1936) which argued that masses were hopeless & real salvation would come from "saving remnant."
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Yep! But Jonah's mad because I left him out of my genealogy.
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