This is about as insightful as my coworker's email signature, which is a paragraph-long quote from
basically saying that people have an insatiable urge to rebel against something, so because there's nothing actually bad in our society, they rebel against liberal democracy itself as the problem.
"What do you damn kids want?"
"we want to untie our universities and institutions from funding genocide in Palestine" "you heard it here first, folks. These kids are so horny that they've become Nazis"This logic of innate rebellion implies that Communist countries face dissent for utopia contrary to Cold War propaganda.
Aa yes, college students, that demographic famous for not having enough sex. That must be the problem!
"Yeah, but they aren't having enough sex with me!" -- this prof
I remember Salmon Rushdie going on either Stewart or Colbert and saying this about the Palestinian resistance or the Iraqi resistance. That day I figured out why racist libs love him so much.
Here's the original article: https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/nyu-professor-says-hamas-loving-students-need-to-have-more-sex/
Somehow, he makes an even worse take one paragraph down. Scott thinks these protests against Zionism will lead to the rise of Nazism again, and blames the original rise of Nazism on socialists in Germany in the 1930s.
Quote:
Galloway said American society would not survive if its people could not rally behind noble causes — adding that much of what he was seeing reminded him of the early rise of Hitler.
“It’s easy to poke fun at these kids, but history has a way of repeating itself, and this is how it starts. In ’30s Germany, a progressive community, a thriving gay community, excellent academic institutions. And how it started, was it was fashionable to wear a brown shirt and mock students at the University of Vienna,’ Galloway said.
He seems to think that the socialists turned into Nazis, and not that the Nazis were created by capitalists in reaction to the socialists.
We are already starting to see liberals like Scott co-opt the righteous anger of young people and redirect them toward useless electoralism and antisocialism.
Scott recently made a viral TED talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E) where he points out all the problems that young people face, but of course proposes solutions that will never be implemented without changing the political system entirely.
Instead of blaming rich capitalists for squeezing us more, he just blames all old people, and makes sure to also knock affirmative action along the way for "reasons".
Fighting misdirection from people like this is why we organize and educate.
So he's recycling the Wilhelm Reich thesis. I wonder when that ghastly thing will ever die.
I remember reading about Wilhelm Reich and his "Sexual" science from the following book. Most of his claims are coming from anticommunists.
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However, I didn't investigate further their claims as I left it as a pending investigation. Do you have information that you could share that counters his thesis?
Sorry for the late reply. Most of my knowledge of Wilhelm Reich comes from a book of his I picked up in school: The Mass Psychology of Fascism, which for some reason was in our library. I found his arguments -- not very convincing: despite claiming to be a Marxist, he ignored economics almost totally, and instead focused on Freudian psychosexual development as the mover of history. His big claim was fascism is the direct result, not of a prolonged capitalist crisis and divisions in the ruling class, but of sexual repression. Since German children in the early 20th century were not allowed (taught?) to masturbate, and sex between adolescents was deeply discouraged, a whole lot of German citizens grew up, Reich claims, somehow sexually unfulfilled; and hence, by some sort of Freudian mechanism of symbolic castration and absence of the father, they ended up gravitating to an authoritarian regime. (Remark of a not-very-serious friend to whom I painstakingly explained this thesis: "That explains German fascism, sure, but how the hell does it account for Mussolini?")
There were a couple things which really soured me on the book. First was some of the "evidence" presented: Reich, claims, for instance, that the swastika on the Nazi party flag is meant to evoke the Freudian "primal scene" (i.e., a prepubescent child stumbling upon his parents having sex, and interpreting it as the father committing violence against the mother). I took a good long look at some pictures of the Nazi flag after that, and no matter how I turned it, I couldn't possibly find anything that looked like two humans screwing. Second was that a whole lot of the book is actually a polemic against the Soviet Union: the Soviet Union, claims Reich, exhibits nearly all the pathologies of fascism, and that this too is rooted in sexual repression. He actually uses, if I remember correctly, the term "red fascism," and basically out and warns people that Nazism is bringing bad Soviet stuff into the civilized heartland of Europe. We have seen this before: anti-communism disguised as anti-fascism (it is the bread and butter of whole sectors of the online left). It exists today in claims that the CPC's new pro-family and pro-natal policies, designed to increase the birthrate, are actually just a bunch of evil Fu Manchu conservatives trying to reverse Mao's policies and enslave women.
Reich, by the way, ended up in the US, where he ended up being investigated by the federal government for promoting junk medicine: "orgone accumulators," which were boxes in which you sat and soaked up the sexual energy that he claimed pervaded the universe. So pretty clearly a nut. You can probably find PDFs of his works online, but my advice is that there are way, way better uses of your time...
Thank you for taking the time to respond to me! This helps a lot!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Waiting for the next headline "Anti-Israel camp peacefully dissolved after massive orgy"
I don't think there's any correlation between how much people have sex and how likely they are to turn into anti-genocide protesters
They figured it out, there can't be any political opposition if everyone is busy having sex non-stop.
Wow, what a coincidence! Just after I shared a study on the Fascists’ bizarre gender theories, I see that Scott Galloway is unintentionally(?) recycling them:
(Emphasis added.)
Amazing. Every day I get new confirmation that fascist "ideology" is just the mentality of idiot highschoolers writ large.
