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This is an excellent essay on the implausibility of the new right. tl;dr: excessively New England Puritan https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1386082703607541771
Especially revealing how it goaded @Vermeullarmine into endorsing white genocide (only partially joking) (he's blocked me again so I don't feel bad saying this)
Seriously, it's very difficult to take the sentiment in that tweet as anything more than New England snobbery towards white trash. It's not a serious position
Same with this fantasy about replacing the American mythos wholesale. That's not how culture works
AV's tweets reveal he totally misses what's brilliant about the "I tread on you" flag, which is how it appropriates the American aesthetic to make a Catholic point
The integralists need less New England snobbery, more Appalachian memery
Put differently, integralists are always claiming to like Gene Wolfe, how about actually reading & understanding Book of the Short Sun
Don't cultural-genocide the pirates and border reavers, turn them into Jacobites
I subscribe to the three sentences, but I've concluded that many integralists just hate America and use Catholicism as an excuse. Vermeule's political imagination is basically Episcopalian
When you point this out they whine "did Augustine love Rome" yes you fucking moron he read Virgil and wept. You can't write The City of God Against the Pagans without loving Rome in your bones
Vermeule: "muh tyrannophobia"
Virgil: "Rome spares the humbled, casts down the proud"
Virgil: "Rome spares the humbled, casts down the proud"
For I always robbed the rich and great, for to rob the poor I scorn-ed https://twitter.com/s_r_tarnmoor/status/1386181805817139201?s=19
In conclusion, kind Providence, not the WASP Adrian Vermeule, will judge the soul of Alan Tyne of Harrow
(have I been listening to Alan Tyne of Harrow on repeat for the last hour? ... maybe)
A helpful elucidation of what I meant by calling Vermeule's political imagination "episcopalian" https://twitter.com/pompilivs/status/1386356400029413376?s=19
Geoffrey Hill - Broken Hierarchies (title poem of his omnibus)
"why should we have to know anything about the people we intend to rule"
