08-28-2016, 11:00 AM
(08-28-2016, 10:21 AM)Anthony Wrote: If Alt-Right is "neo-medievalist" because it advocates that everybody go back to their "own" continent, then they are "pacifists," relatively speaking - because the Middle Ages were peaceful compared to both antiquity and modernity, the latter slated to end with this Crisis, as per the Prabhat Sarkar/Ravi Batra Theory (?).
So maybe Alt-Right is doubly in step with reality - in that its agenda appears to also be friendly toward the upcoming warrior age?
I'm seeing them as more neo-victorian than neo medieval. They seem closer to 'the white man's burden' or 'manifest destiny' than the notion of launching a crusade.
I'm also dubious about the upcoming warrior age. Given nukes, major powers are still avoiding taking each other head on. Bush 43's adventures illustrated how insurgent conflicts and proxy support make attempts to occupy colonies difficult. I can see how civilians who can't be drafted to serve and whose country is avoiding direct conflict might strut macho and beat chests, but that's just an offshoot of chicken hawk mentality.
If the Republican Party is faltering, I am looking for something to replace them. You have to at least look at the possibility that the Alt Right might grow into the replacement. I can sympathize with the notion that if every racial, ethnic, gender role group can celebrate their place in society, the heterosexual write males should be allowed to strut and preen if they want to. I find that mildly distasteful, but we don't have to watch if we don't want to.
But they have an awful lot of growing up to do before I take them very seriously.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.