I suspect current right-wing ideology owes much more than it realizes to 1800s German Romantic Nationalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_nationalism …).
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Ironic, because the hippie/Newage values the right despises are also rooted in German Romanticism: http://meaningness.com/metablog/bad-ideas-from-dead-germans …
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I analyze fundamentalism/reaction and the LOHAS counterculture (http://www.lohas.com/about ) as mirror images, more similar than different.
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Fundamentalism/reaction and LOHAS (70s-based counterculture) are both attempts to rescue eternalism (http://meaningness.com/preview-eternalism-and-nihilism …) from nihilism.
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Rational and empirical analysis show that eternalism is false and unworkable. Any attempt to rescue eternalism must reject rationality.
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Fear that rationality leads inexorably to nihilism, the loss of all meaning, is the basis of Romanticism—on both the left and right.
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Fortunately, eternalism and nihilism are not the only possibilities. Eternalism *has* finally collapsed, but meaning is everywhere.
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Still, right and left are both correct that important values have been undermined by the corrosive atomization of global consumerism.
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We can confirm value without eternalistic justifications (God, blood, and soil—or social justice and spiritual correctness).
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When we abandon the doomed attempt to rescue eternalism, Romantic anti-rationalism loses its function and attraction.
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