Both of these toxic dudes participated in a CPAC gab-fest. CPAC quite openly calls itself right-wing. Rod Dreher is a friend of Vance. He is consistently hostile to anything regarded as left-wing.
Dreher used to be a columnist at the American Conservative which quite openly describes itself as right-wing.
The very popular author Paul Kingsnorth quite openly promotes the idea that it is the "left" which is the cause of most of our troubles.
I think you misunderstood the point of my article. I said that, while the 'left' has kept the idea of a pseudo-unified 'right' alive, some factions in the 'right' are also actively promoting a 'right-wing' identity, and encouraging left-skeptics of all kinds to uptake it, so they could control their thinking and 'unite the right', so to say. I am against any kind of 'uniting the right', whether it be encouraged by left-wingers (e.g. those who keep saying that libertarians are 'right-wing') or self-identified right-wingers (like the examples you gave). I am here to deconstruct the right, because this is necessary to defeat Trumpism and reactionary populism.
In the US (in particular) there is a completely irrational hatred/dislike/suspicion of any and everything that is supposedly left wing. Those on the right side of the culture wars openly, and even aggressively identify themselves as right wingers. TV is mostly dominated by outfits which openly describe themselves as right wing. How else could you possibly describe Fox (faux) "news'
and Truth Social.
A similar situation exists here in Australia where the Murdoch media controls most of the traditional print media and much of TV too openly identifies itself as right wing. Anything mildly left-wing is instantaneously derided.
In his book The Master & His Emissary Iain McGilchrist points out that most/all of Western culture is patterned and controlled by left-brained thinking which, by the way has nothing to do with left wing politics.
Left brained thinking instantaneously objectifies any and every thing. It is thus primarily about power and control which is of course characteristically masculine in its nature. It cuts off or shuts down the Living Spirit and thus destroys the indivisible patterns of relationships in and as which we are all instantaneously inter-connected.
Right brained thinking which is essentially feminine in its nature is based on the understanding/recognition that this is a psycho-physical world in which everyone and everything is indivisibly inter-connected at a deep feeling level prior to the conceits/constructs of the left brain.
Remember too that the Latin word for left is SINISTER. Witches were and are regarded as being sinister, in league with the "devil" as it were. Hence the European Witch burnings and the Medieaval book The Hammer of Witches.
As a matter of interest check out Rod Dreher's latest substack posting where he rails against the "left" as the locus of the dis-integration of Western culture, and the necessity to destroy the alleged pernicious influence of the dreaded left altogether.
The left vs right meme has its origins in the two divisions of the human nervous system the ida and the pingala inter-twined with the central nervous system centered on the spinal line one of which represents the feminine principle and the other the masculine principle. Such is pictured in the ancient Caduseus image.
In a truly sane culture those two elements/divisions would be in an harmonious play with one another. But in Western culture (in particular) those two Principles have always been involved in a life-and-death-struggle.
The never-ending war of "spirit" vs "flesh" - spirit being the disembodied male principle and "flesh" the feminine principle representing the living-feeling-breathing human body.
That life-and-death-struggle is (collectively) projected on to the world stage as all of the seemingly intractable polar oppositions which have now reached a possibly terminal situation for both Humankind and Earthkind altogether.
Yes, I see this the same way, which is strange being a 47 years old white guy. But I see the essence of the right in over-masculine thinking, too much logic and not enough empathy. Now logic is for the purpose of building machines, in human matters, we should use empathy. This means our politics should be the politics of psychotherapists, not engineers. Probably we should just listen to women more.
I would not call the masculine principle spirit and the feminine principle body, somehow it does not really make intuitive sense to me. I would see the masculine principle as machine, and one of the the first machines ever invented were systems of Law. Law means that instead of someone looking into the issue empathically and figuring something out, we decide things by pre-written rules that actually, if you think about it, look like software code. I would see the feminine principle as healer-mother, first listen to people and figure out their emotions etc.
Yes, it did, but the latest definition of the word cames from the Spanish Civil War. It was a set of two strange alliances, liberals who loved capitalism allied with communists who did not, and monarchists who loved capitalism allied with falangist fascists who at least had big reservations about capitalism. Practically it means both sides decided to drop the whole problem of capitalism and socialism, and fight it out basically as a culture war, as something like the atheistic cosmopolitans vs. the religious nationalists.
"Left brained thinking instantaneously objectifies any and every thing. It is thus primarily about power and control which is of course characteristically masculine in its nature."
Yes, exactly, this is masculine over-reliance on logic, which leaves empathy underdeveloped. Logic is for building machines, using logic about human matters is automatically a mismatch. This leads to the rule of law, because the law is a machine.
But this is one half of the problem, Zippy. The other half is the "fake left", fashionable people from the universities who always end up selling out to capitalism. For example they support immigration, they think it makes them anti-racist and progressive, but in reality they are just feeding cheap labour into the capitalist machine.
Tara, "the right" is simply the people who lack empathy and does not matter much whether it is callous authoritarians or indifferent "I got mine, fuck you" libertarians, note that I think you are not of that kind, but maybe you are rare. Relying too much on logic really does erode empathy, and I have never ran across anyone from "the right" who was "bleeding heart". Well I did once, it was the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog, but they could only address some truly edge cases and eventually it was closed up.
This is an in-your-face example of right-wing thinking, and perhaps even applied right-wing politics too
http://www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-vance-and-the-language-of-genocide
Both of these toxic dudes participated in a CPAC gab-fest. CPAC quite openly calls itself right-wing. Rod Dreher is a friend of Vance. He is consistently hostile to anything regarded as left-wing.
Dreher used to be a columnist at the American Conservative which quite openly describes itself as right-wing.
The very popular author Paul Kingsnorth quite openly promotes the idea that it is the "left" which is the cause of most of our troubles.
Check out this reference too.
http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/opus-deis-influence-on-project-2025
You cant get much more right-wing than Opus Dei. Check out two books
Opus by Gareth Gore
Stench by David Brock.
I think you misunderstood the point of my article. I said that, while the 'left' has kept the idea of a pseudo-unified 'right' alive, some factions in the 'right' are also actively promoting a 'right-wing' identity, and encouraging left-skeptics of all kinds to uptake it, so they could control their thinking and 'unite the right', so to say. I am against any kind of 'uniting the right', whether it be encouraged by left-wingers (e.g. those who keep saying that libertarians are 'right-wing') or self-identified right-wingers (like the examples you gave). I am here to deconstruct the right, because this is necessary to defeat Trumpism and reactionary populism.
Perhaps its the other way round.
In the US (in particular) there is a completely irrational hatred/dislike/suspicion of any and everything that is supposedly left wing. Those on the right side of the culture wars openly, and even aggressively identify themselves as right wingers. TV is mostly dominated by outfits which openly describe themselves as right wing. How else could you possibly describe Fox (faux) "news'
and Truth Social.
A similar situation exists here in Australia where the Murdoch media controls most of the traditional print media and much of TV too openly identifies itself as right wing. Anything mildly left-wing is instantaneously derided.
In his book The Master & His Emissary Iain McGilchrist points out that most/all of Western culture is patterned and controlled by left-brained thinking which, by the way has nothing to do with left wing politics.
Left brained thinking instantaneously objectifies any and every thing. It is thus primarily about power and control which is of course characteristically masculine in its nature. It cuts off or shuts down the Living Spirit and thus destroys the indivisible patterns of relationships in and as which we are all instantaneously inter-connected.
Right brained thinking which is essentially feminine in its nature is based on the understanding/recognition that this is a psycho-physical world in which everyone and everything is indivisibly inter-connected at a deep feeling level prior to the conceits/constructs of the left brain.
Remember too that the Latin word for left is SINISTER. Witches were and are regarded as being sinister, in league with the "devil" as it were. Hence the European Witch burnings and the Medieaval book The Hammer of Witches.
Do Fox News or News Corp self-identify as right-wing? I'm not aware of that. Anyway, I don't agree with their views.
The left and the right originated in 18th century France. It has nothing to do with the Latin word 'sinister'.
As a matter of interest check out Rod Dreher's latest substack posting where he rails against the "left" as the locus of the dis-integration of Western culture, and the necessity to destroy the alleged pernicious influence of the dreaded left altogether.
The left vs right meme has its origins in the two divisions of the human nervous system the ida and the pingala inter-twined with the central nervous system centered on the spinal line one of which represents the feminine principle and the other the masculine principle. Such is pictured in the ancient Caduseus image.
In a truly sane culture those two elements/divisions would be in an harmonious play with one another. But in Western culture (in particular) those two Principles have always been involved in a life-and-death-struggle.
The never-ending war of "spirit" vs "flesh" - spirit being the disembodied male principle and "flesh" the feminine principle representing the living-feeling-breathing human body.
That life-and-death-struggle is (collectively) projected on to the world stage as all of the seemingly intractable polar oppositions which have now reached a possibly terminal situation for both Humankind and Earthkind altogether.
Yes, I see this the same way, which is strange being a 47 years old white guy. But I see the essence of the right in over-masculine thinking, too much logic and not enough empathy. Now logic is for the purpose of building machines, in human matters, we should use empathy. This means our politics should be the politics of psychotherapists, not engineers. Probably we should just listen to women more.
I would not call the masculine principle spirit and the feminine principle body, somehow it does not really make intuitive sense to me. I would see the masculine principle as machine, and one of the the first machines ever invented were systems of Law. Law means that instead of someone looking into the issue empathically and figuring something out, we decide things by pre-written rules that actually, if you think about it, look like software code. I would see the feminine principle as healer-mother, first listen to people and figure out their emotions etc.
I think people like Rod Dreher don't make sense at all, and it's all powerplay for them. Like postmodernism, but a reactionary variety.
Yes today he came out in support of David Horowitz who died the other day.
Horowitz was worse than awful
Yes, it did, but the latest definition of the word cames from the Spanish Civil War. It was a set of two strange alliances, liberals who loved capitalism allied with communists who did not, and monarchists who loved capitalism allied with falangist fascists who at least had big reservations about capitalism. Practically it means both sides decided to drop the whole problem of capitalism and socialism, and fight it out basically as a culture war, as something like the atheistic cosmopolitans vs. the religious nationalists.
Interesting view. It's the first time I've heard of this, but it sounds interesting.
"Left brained thinking instantaneously objectifies any and every thing. It is thus primarily about power and control which is of course characteristically masculine in its nature."
Yes, exactly, this is masculine over-reliance on logic, which leaves empathy underdeveloped. Logic is for building machines, using logic about human matters is automatically a mismatch. This leads to the rule of law, because the law is a machine.
But this is one half of the problem, Zippy. The other half is the "fake left", fashionable people from the universities who always end up selling out to capitalism. For example they support immigration, they think it makes them anti-racist and progressive, but in reality they are just feeding cheap labour into the capitalist machine.
Tara, "the right" is simply the people who lack empathy and does not matter much whether it is callous authoritarians or indifferent "I got mine, fuck you" libertarians, note that I think you are not of that kind, but maybe you are rare. Relying too much on logic really does erode empathy, and I have never ran across anyone from "the right" who was "bleeding heart". Well I did once, it was the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog, but they could only address some truly edge cases and eventually it was closed up.