/By Richard Seymour
/
/The overall psychological improvement was outpacing the material
advantage/.
Richard Grunberg, A Social History of the Third Reich
/If individuals behaved like groups, they would be //classified as mad/.
Hannah Segal
*I*.
Disaster nationalism is the /kairos/theory of the new right. Reaction
always thrives on the prospect of annihilation. ‘American carnage’,
‘white genocide’, ‘death panels’, ‘invasion’, ‘great replacement’,
‘Islamisation’, ‘treason’, ‘cultural marxists’, ‘scum’, ‘communism’. The
erosion and threatened destruction of worlds of power resembling, from
its ideological purview, civilisational collapse, defeat, devastation.
With which it is both appalled and enthralled.
We are, pending the medium-term outcome of an explosive,
plague-catalysed, economic crisis, potentially more destructive in the
short term than the Great Depression, entering a cycle of nationalist
reaction. Rupture on the right, not the left, has proven to be the rule.
In Braudel’s terms, a cycle, situated somewhere between the longue
duréeand the event, is a period of some decades in which a cluster of
social changes germinate, develop and mature. If the cycle that
concluded in 2008 was one of neoliberal globalisation, it also nourished
and incubated the tendencies of nationalist reflux now abroad. Amid the
decomposition of the old party system, the legacy media, and associated
forms of public authority, political forces organising around the nation
and its enemies have won the major battles of the last decade. What is
more, incumbency has been incredibly forgiving of their failures, their
political gains proving far less fragile than those of the Left.
https://salvage.zone/in-print/prepared-for-the-worst-disaster-nationalism/
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