2. Secondarily, all male company & contempt for women is a precondition for militarism psycho-sexually (Elliott Rodger mindset). There’s a good book called Male Fantasies that explores this. I read Milo & Murray as earlier iterations of the coalition of the oppressed.
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3. A bit like Christopher Hitchens, they want to go back to the liberalism/leftism of ‘68: secular, sexually hedonistic etc. They don’t understand that the leftism of ‘68 has been passed. This is why I think they will lose, as will people like Dawkins.
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Yes, obviously. Again Mishima was a forerunner. He failed miserably. The essence of the left is that it keeps moving.
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I don’t think Mishima failed miserably. As far as coups went, people like Pinochet would laugh at him. However, he carried out a psychic coup. People still talk about him, even in the English-speaking world, decades later. This is power of a different sort, an artistic type.
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His reputation was good enough through his literature. But his politics failed. Japan today is one of the most effeminate places on earth.
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I haven’t been to Japan, but I’ll take your word for it. It’s not possible to tell if his reputation would have endured without the coup, but I suspect that’s why people speak about him now and that’s why he did it really. So long as people speak of him, his politics endures.
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