In light of the latest “scandalous” raises of the right arm by influential American characters, we believe some considerations appropriate to go, as we already said in the past, to the massacre of commonplaces.
Those who usually seem scandalous gestures to us, regurgitates a tragic past whose echo still hatch in the words of the survivors of that time, in reality they have a very precise meaning and sink the roots in a cultural substratum having its own specificity, for how incredible it may seem. Things are increasingly complex than they appear.
Let’s start with Bannon. What everyone seemed to be a call to the Nazi greeting in truth with Nazism has little or niete to do. Indicate Steve Bannon as a neo-Nazi is like identifying Putin with Stalin; Nothing more different, despite appearances. But you know, appearances are very comfortable for those who want impressions rather than reflections.
That gesture summarizes a cultural current Today very alive in the USA which sees in force the founding element of its essence; a mysticism of virility and the strong identity opposite to an internal enemy. On the other hand, Bannon, like many American theorists, does not have a philosophical formation similar to the European one, that is, referring to a specific doctrine or to a particular thought, but he reviews himself in a multiplicity of theories that then form an amalgam Desructured where various paths coexist.
In his case they are in the same cauldron René Guénon And Nietzsche, Julius Evola and Indian mysticism, Edmund Burke And the Christian-Judaic mysticism. And then of course, the cult of the strong man of which the Hitlerism was the epigone. Nazism is used in a distorted key as a form of superficial opposition to the Buonista-Wokist-Libral globalism that a large part of the American population detested to the point of wearing, without truly believing it, shirts on which leanings stand out. In this sense, Bannon’s gesture is, on a semiotic level, opposite to that of Elon Musk. Bannon Detesta Musk in that he considers him the archetype of what he, philosophically, rejects: transhumanism, domain of technique, economic globalism (which would be from Tesla without the Chinese components and the European market?).
Musk’s tense arm instead has an intrinsic Ridiculous and not very credible component. For him it’s all, probably, similar to a game. What is not a game is instead the cultural specific that this new American right feeds on.
Very different from the neo-con, who possessed a universal projection of the American role (as a former Trotzkisti), The American alt-performance feeds on the theories of little mainstream and dark thinkers. The most significant are probably Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin (known by the pseudonym of Mencius Moldbug). The latter, highly appreciated by Peter Thiel and points of reference for what is superficially defined by us “Tecnodestra“, They see with suspicion liberal democracy in its classical form and consider it obsolete in light of the progress of technology and the persistence of social conflicts. They imagine the state as a joint -stock companyled by a president-pawn with absolute powers and without intermediate bodies (see to believe the Department entrusted to Musk and the latest nominations of Trump in the vital ganglia of the nation). Democracy loses its air of sacredness and is replaced by individual freedomalways within the limits allowed by the new “governance” of the state.
The alt-right replaces criticism with suspicion towards democratic forms, seen as deceptions of a restricted oligarchy, a suspicion that can sometimes take violent forms. Hence the events of Capitol Hill. The twentieth -century categories of right and left have little to do with it In this picture so nuanced and exquisitely postmodern.
Trump keeps all this together at a symbolic level, even if more than a techno-authorserable he seems to be a clearing populism of populism. Those who seem to us to regurgitate Nazi are actually symbolic gestures of those who begin to reject the state as it is represented from the liberal world. The guilty white male rebels by drawing on the only force of the symbols without having internalized their meaning. But do you imagine them crazy American to make the Nazi greeting?
However, the defeats are still unable to perceive that behind the battle against the most frightening drifts of the Liberal company there is a sort of Tecno-Elitism still without theoretical form, but for a short time. The government to a few chosen for natural qualities and not for consent, to the many symbolic illusions and ideological fascinations.
If universities still existed in this country, all this would be a fascinating matter.
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