I've been challenged by @vgr to write 100 opinions on "art and the alt-right." My first thought was "oh God, delete this." But let's embrace the edge and give it a go.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1206039481318400001 …
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1. To whatever extent I'm involved with the so-called alt-right, it has to do with a shared sense that society is unwell, and that this concerns my life. Looking upon the world, I feel hurt, I feel disgust, and I feel a desire for things to be other than how they are.
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2. Feeling that things should change, one immediately wonders: "how?" And down a thousand rabbit holes we go. Most if not all rabbit holes, it seems, end up in "change is not only very difficult, but fraught."
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3. Observing how difficult change is, one begins to wonder how it is that things are the way they are already, and one immediately runs into two topics: (1) tradition, or how value is discovered and preserved and (2) nature, or how things are the way they are beyond our control.
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This is all still preamble
The opinion count starts with things that are actual opinions
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