• Mardoniush [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    Taking this seriously, this pops straight out of the hyper-idealism of modern chuds. Formerly fascists were right-hegelians when they could muster the effort to read, but now they're naive idealists.

    Instead of refuting baudrillard and crushing the "cathedral", like the NRx psudointellecutals tried to proclaim; they've turned Baudrillard on his head, and believe material reality is created by using symbology to form a hyperreality and then physically manifest it by violence. It's like a bastardised version of ritual Magick, the Order of the Golden Cudgel

    Well, they're not coherent enough for that but if they were that's what they'd be described as doing .

    So of course they're obsessed by symbols they really do believe they manifest reality.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      believe material reality is created by using symbology to form a hyperreality and then physically manifest it by violence. It's like a bastardised version of ritual Magick, the Order of the Golden Cudgel

      I can see why crystal healing granola hippies have an overlap with fascists

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      8 months ago

      Well, they're not coherent enough for that but if they were that's what they'd be described as doing .

      Isn't what you're describing basically the hyperstition/meme magic shit that at least some of them do proclaim as part of their nihilistic irony poisoning?

      • TheDoctor [they/them]
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        8 months ago

        My favorite part about meme magic is, for all the posturing about postmodernism, meme magic is basically just a form of postmodern chaos magic.