• happybadger [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition. Traditionalism is of course much older than fascism. Not only was it typical of counter-revolutionary Catholic thought after the French revolution, but it was born in the late Hellenistic era, as a reaction to classical Greek rationalism. In the Mediterranean basin, people of different religions (most of them indulgently accepted by the Roman Pantheon) started dreaming of a revelation received at the dawn of human history. This revelation, according to the traditionalist mystique, had remained for a long time concealed under the veil of forgotten languages — in Egyptian hieroglyphs, in the Celtic runes, in the scrolls of the little known religions of Asia.

    This new culture had to be syncretistic. Syncretism is not only, as the dictionary says, “the combination of different forms of belief or practice”; such a combination must tolerate contradictions. Each of the original messages contains a silver of wisdom, and whenever they seem to say different or incompatible things it is only because all are alluding, allegorically, to the same primeval truth.

    As a consequence, there can be no advancement of learning. Truth has been already spelled out once and for all, and we can only keep interpreting its obscure message.

    One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements. The most influential theoretical source of the theories of the new Italian right, Julius Evola, merged the Holy Grail with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, alchemy with the Holy Roman and Germanic Empire. The very fact that the Italian right, in order to show its open-mindedness, recently broadened its syllabus to include works by De Maistre, Guenon, and Gramsci, is a blatant proof of syncretism.

    If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores, are labeled as New Age, you can find there even Saint Augustine who, as far as I know, was not a fascist. But combining Saint Augustine and Stonehenge — that is a symptom of Ur-Fascism.

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    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      5 months ago

      California Uber Alles

      But yeah, hippies are fucking scary. I worked at an organic food store for like a few months until I got fired cause they didn't order flour so I went home instead of baking muffins and cookies WITHOUT FLOUR. I WAS A BAKER, what the fuck do you want? I can't go to the store and get some cause it's an organic place and so it's specific products going in, I can improvise quite a bit, I'm a very very good cook and being able to improvise very well and reworking recipes or just making up new ones on the fly is really one of my greatest strengths. But I need fucking flour. It was according to them my 'attitude' which was not giving a fuck cause they hired one 17 year old to handle all the dry bulk orders and I wasn't allowed to just order shit myself, she dropped the ball, not me. I had a better gig ready to roll anyway so it was fine. There was a walk out a year later and it's now under new ownership.

      Also like 80% of the profit was from 'supplements' aka fake medicine. There were people dying of cancer who wouldn't see doctors and were convinced this was the real shit, and bear in mind, we have public Healthcare here, these people profited off of it. Sometimes it was people who doctors said there was nothing that could be done and were just yknow dying and willing to try anything and this place was there to exploit that and bleed their next of kinda inheritance on snake oil. So if mainstream medicine is an evil for profit industry that wants to keep you sick even in a country with socialized Healthcare somehow, what's the fucking difference? If their shit worked they'd be no better than big pharma gouging people for medicine, but they're worse cause it doesn't even fucking work. And whsts even sicker is they're convinced it does. They believe it. Our uniforms at the place had 'it's our lifestyle 'on the back. No it fucking isn't. I also lived with Gen x hippies for a good while cause my first girlfriends family is thst and their parents who are older hippies and they're just libertarians. Absolutely self centered outside of their immediate group and they all act like a weird cult to each other. It's weird and gross.

      Never follow a hippie to a second location

  • Cigarette_comedian [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Why do so many reactionaries insist on giving themselves food borne diseases? My guess is just the logical conclusion of RETVRN being taken to 400 000 BCE, eating raw animal products minus the berries, tubers, fruits, nuts etc etc actual prehistoric archaic humans would eat.

    • TraumaDumpling
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      5 months ago

      prehistoric humans definitely cooked food, in fact even some pre-human hominids must have cooked food at least sometimes, since our and their teeth are so much less robust than other animals/earlier primates in our lineage.

      • Cigarette_comedian [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Yeh, I said 400 000 BCE cause that's a tiny bit before the estimated time of the invention of fire making. Prolly should have done a bit more research than just pulling the Google answer but I was in a hurry to dunk.

    • kot [they/them]
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      5 months ago

      Right wing gastropolitics is a fucking trip, but Bronze Age Pervert popularizing the ideas of Aajonus Vonderplanitz (guy who promoted the "primal diet", and who tried to legalize raw milk) is probably the reason.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      It's exactly the same behaviour as women that get into crystals, homeopathy and believing that if you just tell the universe what you want then you'll get it. Except they've translated that behaviour over to men and manly products instead.

      Both groups have the same kind of derangement.

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    5 months ago

    Can I make my own grift based on shit like this? I feel like it would be easy.

    Idk “ground cooking patriot”? We cook in pits in the ground or something? Buy my course?

    “Natural eyes nazi”, like a don’t wear glasses thing?

    “Trad locomotion alpha” sneak anti car messaging in , walk everywhere?

    “Shoeless/barefooted deplorable” no shoes! Our ancestors didn’t have shoes! Dirt floors in your house to maximize the chance of getting worms?

    • Owl [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Probably, but I think these grifts have already hit the point of saturation and nobody's actually making much money on them. They're just the sigma grindset weirdoes again. They have to broadcast that their grift is successful to convince other grifters to cross-promote them and stuff.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    Modern conservative esotericism is just a bunch of millennial grifters grooming bored and lonely zoomers into believing a bunch of nonsense about satanism, Christianity, “meme magic”, and some shit from Himmler LARPing in his castle

    The last iteration was “esoteric Hitlerism”, and it was a psyop by British Nazi satanists to infiltrate American and Canadian Nazis and turn them into angsty 17 year olds again who worship Satan

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      5 months ago

      some shit from Himmler LARPing in his castle

      don't forget Hyperborea type shit

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    I don't know if this is liberals trying to mock Trump, or liberals trying to "explain" him. I don't know if this is conservatives declaring him the new God-emperor. I don't know if this is those "never Trump" conservatives cashing in on him.

    These names, if they are even names, could be anything, this book, it could be anything. I don't know what mysteries lie within those pages. I have no clue what this could possibly say, except that it is about Trump. It could even be some weird Qanon stuff insisting that he's going to bring about the rapture and his faithful will ascend to heaven for all I know.

    Hell, this could just be a fake screenshot made up to confuse people, and if so, it is one of the most confusing things I've ever seen.