{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Lot of attention lately to the Dark Enlightenment that is mostly about Moldbug. The brown menace, she rides again. As I\u2019ve said...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/87268079498/", "html": "

Lot of attention lately to the Dark Enlightenment that is mostly about Moldbug. The brown menace, she rides again.

As I\u2019ve said before, his one innovation, \u201cneocameralism\u201d, is just a rewording of the Divine Right of Kings in corporate shareholder idiom, a legitimating myth for an order that hasn\u2019t established itself yet. It is significant that that\u2019s exactly the idiom native to the SF tech/VC complex - if shit kicks off in America, dollars to donuts it starts in the Bay Area, which I\u2019ll maybe go into in another post, but suffice it to say I expect the particular details of his program to be pretty much irrelevant to anything.

I will say what intrigues me more, and what could really be a prime mover in that sector, is the construction of a modern, international, English-speaking Australian-American-Polish-British-Scandanavian-Serbian-etc. white volk around a core of internet-native right-masculo-populism on the chans\u2019 \u201cwaifus, warhammer, and white nationalism\u201d model

things like Polandball\u2019s (and SatW\u2019s) western-centric resurrection of the concept of national personification, heavy metal culture and the associated Vikingism, feelsguy\u2019s translinguistic sense of selfhood, /pol/\u2019s kebab removal\u2026 well, just /pol/’s /pol/ness, really

Now this sounds ridiculous. I know this sounds ridiculous. This is me pointing to cultural trends particularly prominent in the dork niche circles I notice and ascribing to them world-shifting importance. I know it is.

Sure, heavy metal is not the actual historic musical tradition of any people. Sure, Norse neopaganism is not the actual historic religious tradition of any people. Sure, Tolkien-by-way-of-D&D aesthetics are not the actual historic mythology of any people.

Unless, of course, you count \u201c2008\u201d as being a part of history, or those then alive as counting as a people. Or, say, 1978. Or, you know, the 19th century, and the conscious, successful Wagnerian construction of Germanic identity from which these are all lineally descended.

To Golda Meir is attributed the line that there is no such thing as a Palestinian, by which was meant that the identity didn\u2019t predate the establishment of the state of Israel. True, true. Neither was there such a thing as an Israeli. But then the state of Israel was established.


Plus okay, the celebration of western, particularly north european feudal great man realpolitik that is Paradox games is a niche thing, not quite mainstream popular culture

but how about the celebration of western, particularly north european feudal great man realpolitik that is the Canadian/Irish/American \u201cVikings\u201d series?

how about the celebration of western, particularly north european feudal great man realpolitik that is Game of Thrones?

*de Benoist voice* metapolitics

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