I haven’t read it, but it’s probable—going from interviews— that the problem with Gary Lachman’s biography of Colin Wilson is that he believes that there is a leftist occultism or esotericism. Worse, he thinks he detects this in Wilson’s work.
I think this isn’t malicious. It’s just that the truth is a bit too hard for a lot of people to swallow as regards Wilson’s politics, which were implicitly on the hard right. Who knows how hooked in Wilson was...he wrote for the Henry Williamson Society.
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I might have to buy this biography to find out. But I saw a similar things with a Crowley biography where the the biographer tried to make out that Crowley wasn’t “racist”. Retrofitting him for this society. I suppose this bc Paganism & hippies tend to be on the left.
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And they’re interested in this sort of thing. But the content is implicitly or actually on the hard right. So they have to play a game where they don’t “see” the politics in all the occult and esoteric stuff.
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