In the conclusion of Karl's book on hitler he says that it'll happen again if the third world is summoned against the west, & if this challenges the comforts of liberal modernity. The fact that saying this is itself tabboo does not bode well for avoiding it.
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"Hey let's not increase ingroup ourgroup tensions to the point that they collapse into an inevitable war of elimination. Yes, this means that we have to acknowledge difference, particularity, & the individual against the mass. Oh, that's not allowed? Well..."
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It's a pretty bad idea to create the binary edifice of "accept your disappearance from the world or else become anathema"- mainly because people who otherwise would not have volunteered to choose the latter will find themselves in a situation where they let others choose for them
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That's the irony of our times, that the nazis are the outgroup that must be eliminated & they are associated with, generally, not-nazis- namely, normie prole whites. I've generally thought this massive memetic demand for nazis (to ritualistically sacrifice) is what produces them.
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Temperamentally I'm a loner, & would not fit into any such "mass movement" comfortably- which was the position of both Jünger & Hamsun as contemporaries of Hitler. The issue is that by speaking on behalf of these *sigh* "deplorables"- I'm categorized within them.
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A heuristic I go by is that if I find myself on the side of a majority which is considered "the good guys"- I immediately become skeptical. This is where evil actually resides- in this comfort of considering oneself "on the right side of history."
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No matter what you do- despite the fact that Jünger wrote On the Marble Cliffs- he's still considered complicit in something he was never a part of, something he actually opposed, at great risk to himself.
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That's the precarious position many of us are in here. Who wants to be considered complicit in Charlottesville? (which any thinking person on here opposed, from the start, as an obviously suicidal gesture)
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There's no way to publicly empathize with the people sucked into it, as I do, without being considered *sympathetic.* & this impossibility is the very condition which enabled the situation in the first place. It's truly a dire situation & no one wants to resolve it.
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1. As an intellectual, your role is to provide the ideas that prevent events like Charlottesville from happening. You can also articulate what most people cannot. They know something is wrong, but it’s just a heavy, occulted feeling. Describe this, & give them catharsis.
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2. Figures like Jünger resigned themselves to a quiet, personal struggle for freedom—but they didn’t stop fighting. Their work still inspires, comforts,& enlightens people today. This alone, even if the struggle for freedom is ultimately lost, seems to be a justification.
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3. If nothing else, you can be a scribe or chronicler of a great decline or cataclysm. This is the role Peter Hitchens has adopted, & he seems to relish it. If anything survives, it might be looked back on as we look on Juvenal today—assuming you tell the truth, so making satire.
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4. None of these stances require involvement with a mass movement or the ugly theatre of politics. But the act of observing can itself have some influence on events—or so I like to think.
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