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This is a provocative thread, and it& #39;s roughly parallel with ideas I& #39;ve been kicking around for a while. https://twitter.com/JohnWest_JAWS/status/1273763212756946947">https://twitter.com/JohnWest_...
That said, I disagree with the claim that it& #39;s not a right-wing thing. It *is*. It& #39;s definitely a hard right phenomenon.
For example, see this thread (which is not evidence for my claim, but is evidence that I made the claim): https://twitter.com/IBrasso/status/1167909478181658624">https://twitter.com/IBrasso/s...
For example, see this thread (which is not evidence for my claim, but is evidence that I made the claim): https://twitter.com/IBrasso/status/1167909478181658624">https://twitter.com/IBrasso/s...
There is a parallel in other areas of the current culture-wars, too: https://twitter.com/IBrasso/status/1168810920203751424">https://twitter.com/IBrasso/s...
But my big disagreement lies with this part of the thread: https://twitter.com/JohnWest_JAWS/status/1273897703492259847">https://twitter.com/JohnWest_...
I think that& #39;s naive - it& #39;s in parallel with the kind of Hollywood blockbuster in which the supervillain is never motivated by politics or anything like that: it always boils down to money. Hollywood struggles with anything other than material ends. It doesn& #39;t do ideology.
But the current mess is entirely ideology. None of what we see at the moment makes sense without a particular view of what constitutes the Good Life.
None of what we see in politics at the moment is easily explicable if you understand it in terms of following the money, and this is because anyone who is genuinely interested in that takes a long-term view of investment.
When more or less every economist and financier says that Brexit was daft, and when even BP has sworn to go carbon-neutral, that should give you an idea of the way the wind& #39;s blowing.
Our governments are choosing another path entirely.
Our governments are choosing another path entirely.
Their path is one of rampant individualism. This will certainly make some people very rich. But that& #39;s a side-effect. Peter Thiel& #39;s wealth is not ever going to be in doubt. (In fact, his preferred world makes it less secure.)
No: it& #39;s not money that& #39;s driving this. It& #39;s a kind of libertarianism gone psychotic.
You can be right-of-centre without that - and I agree that right-of-centre politics needn& #39;t be a threat. A soft right may even be useful to keep the left& #39;s feet on the ground.
You can be right-of-centre without that - and I agree that right-of-centre politics needn& #39;t be a threat. A soft right may even be useful to keep the left& #39;s feet on the ground.
