This idea has been on my mind for a while and is serious. The U.S. equivalent of de-Nazifying white supramacists needs to be done. When - immediately. How, is the question.
McCorkle Terence Diamond www.terencediamond.com 646-876-1700 *The sage does not hoard* *The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself.* *The more he gives to others, the more he gets for himself.* *The way of heaven always does one good and never does one harm.* *The way of the sage is to act but do not compete.* - Lao Tze On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 1:19 PM Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday [fittingly - BH], Jan 24, 2021 at 1:32 PM Joseph Rabie < > j...@overmydeadbody.org> wrote: > > Perhaps, in terms of fascism, fundamentalist religion is what is being >> substituted for the state. >> > > Contradiction doesn't bother these people. They are anti-state > nationalists. Traditional fascism gets folded in as part of nationalism. > For them, being against the state means getting rid of those aspects of > government that don't fit their world picture. Ideally, a Christian state > would solve all their problems, but in the meantime, the White nation is > good enough. If you try to find coherency here, there is none. > > Fundamentalist religion already requires the rejection of reality in favor > of myths and miracles. The pathological narcissism of social media works > perfectly for them: it provides a frame of reference for their communalist > imaginary. They look for secret knowledge (gnosis) and find it in the palm > of their hand. They commune with God through their cell phone, while > fulfilling some politician's plan. > > After the war, the Allies set about de-Nazifying Germany. To do this they > had to consider the Germans, not only as entirely deluded, but also as a > kind of social material that could be reworked, reshaped like putty in > their hands. To be sure - and this is crucially important - their goal was > not to produce robots or ideologized slaves. Their goal was to restore, or > perhaps create, the kind of individual autonomy and the kind of citizenship > that prevails in capitalist democracies. > > No one will say it explicitly, but it is now urgent to "de-Nazify" the > USA. As in post-WWII Germany this must be done with new laws, new > institutions, and also with new cultural contents (words, images, figures). > But there is obviously a big difference. This time our own capitalist > democracy has been at the origin of the problem. What do the ideal citizens > of the twenty-first century look like? How can they be produced? By whom? > > The question is serious, and answering it demands a new philosophical > account of what a human is and can be, along with new forms of > society-shaping agency. We should not be ashamed of trying these new > accounts out in public debate. After all, Twitter and Facebook have already > built out a new account of what a human is and can be, and they have done > so at global scale. Surely we can find a better way. > > Brian > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
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