Late to the game, but I finally finished up .@BronzeAgeMantis 's Bronze Age Mindset. I think what sets it apart from other right-wing or fascistic ideologies/screeds that I've trudged through, is its shift from a prohibitive morality to a positive morality. Rather than focus on
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contemporary religious conservatives ("I must escape temptation / punish myself") - it is only a sacrifice or denial made in order to achieve a greater excess of life on some other level. This shift to life-affirmation is most clear in his admission of the need for a "red light
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district," a space for transgression, which most conservatives/fascists aim to wholly stamp-out. This is a very ancient strand of nationalism that (post-Christianity) doesn't really have any contemporary analogues. Most importantly, it pinpoints a fissure on the right-wing that
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abhorrent (most surely will), it is an interesting & short-read if you want to understand the psyche of the Meme-Right.
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No fam we gotta PUNISH THE WICKED...but yes essentially it's a return to the positive life affirming virtues that can allow us to punish the wicked instead of just ourselves. It is not "carrying the sins of the world" on our backs, but having the STRENGTH to push the worldly off.
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A lot of religious trads forget that even saint aquinas said that there would be certain "districts of ill repute" that would serve as relief valves/containment underground's for the most degenerate of the population.
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