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.
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.
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