https://georgelakoff.com/2016/11/22/a-minority-president-why-the-polls-failed-and-what-the-majority-can-do/
dear Kevin, see also the analysis by george lakoff, Michel 1. Re: Reflections on Trump, and the role of the commons as an > alternative (Holy Mountain) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:07:01 +0000 > From: Holy Mountain <[email protected]> > To: P2P Foundation mailing list <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]>, Ann Marie Utratel > <[email protected]>, George Pór <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Reflections on Trump, and the role of the commons > as an alternative > Message-ID: > <CACpSwUf_wDFoxy9CEL9NuaqZyyo7eQhvQU0MhX > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello Michel, > > We had a visiting lecturer Douglas Holmes a few weeks ago who wrote a book > called Fast Capitalism which examined the rise of the far right in Europe > throughout the 1990's he interviewed Le Pen for example. He said something > along these lines, at least as I interpreted, that people tend to see the > far right as something in the past something we have moved on from, but > what is misunderstood is that the emergence of fascism was in some ways > inseparable from the emergence of Liberalism and Socialism, it is part and > parcel of modernity, the elements that fascists draw on and instrumentalise > for their reactionary anti-democratic cause are everywhere part of the make > up of the modern world. In a broad cultural sense we are still collectively > working through, both unconsciously and consciously, the enlightenment and > counter enlightenment. Listening to the lectures of liberal political > philosopher Isaiah Berlin, he presents a strong argument in support of > this. The struggle between the forces of the enlightenment and > counter-enlightenment were incredibly productive, in the progressive sense > in that it opened up great scope for debate and exploration of what it > means to be human in the modern world, giving birth to so much art and the > social sciences, but those same tendencies, the importance of culture vs > nature also gives birth to the comparison of cultures, the ranking of > cultures, the privileging of cultures, the sanctity of culture. We rush to > the defence of those marginalised by the rough reductionist mechanics of > 'western civilisation' but the claim of the extreme right is that the same > respect be afforded to conserve the culture of the privileged or at least > their mythic appropriation and re-construction of it. They claim western > cultural and technological superiority is evolution at work an essential > expression of their identity and that "nature" should be let off the leash. > In this sense they are essentialist and vitalists and find common cause > with the survival of the fittest, might is right logics of > Libertarians/ancaps.They share the belief that authority is not rooted in > the constructions the rational or man made which risks critical scrutiny, > rather authority is located 'natural law' or in the mystical the mythical, > beyond the reach of reason or man made law, here is the extreme rights > obsession with new age spiritualism and the occult. The man and machine are > subservient and must always work in the service of myth. Its a pretty dark > view of human beings to say the least but it should be clear how they can > appropriate and mobilise certain cultural tendencies that normally are > considered benign. The transcendent Hero, the Superman, the Warrior for > example. > > Berlin's lectures do not look so much at contemporary fascism as much as > the ideological roots in the counter-enlightenment, Vico, Harmann, Herder > and then De Maistre who he particularly terms a proto fascist. In the 3 > lectures on culture he follow Vico to Harmann. Then there are two other > lectures one on Harmann and De Maistre. > > http://mediapub.it.ox.ac.uk/feeds/129062/audio.xml > > > >
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