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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">https://twitter.com/Scholars_...
Especially revealing how it goaded @Vermeullarmine into endorsing white genocide (only partially joking) (he& #39;s blocked me again so I don& #39;t feel bad saying this)
Seriously, it& #39;s very difficult to take the sentiment in that tweet as anything more than New England snobbery towards white trash. It& #39;s not a serious position
Same with this fantasy about replacing the American mythos wholesale. That& #39;s not how culture works
AV& #39;s tweets reveal he totally misses what& #39;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& #39;t cultural-genocide the pirates and border reavers, turn them into Jacobites
I subscribe to the three sentences, but I& #39;ve concluded that many integralists just hate America and use Catholicism as an excuse. Vermeule& #39;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& #39;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">https://twitter.com/s_r_tarnm...
https://twitter.com/s_r_tarnmoor/status/1095791402619940874?s=19">https://twitter.com/s_r_tarnm...
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& #39;s political imagination "episcopalian" https://twitter.com/pompilivs/status/1386356400029413376?s=19">https://twitter.com/pompilivs...
Geoffrey Hill - Broken Hierarchies (title poem of his omnibus)
"why should we have to know anything about the people we intend to rule"
https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1386448475638935560">https://twitter.com/aaronsiba...
