Posted on 02/12/2025 5:08:01 PM PST by Pelham
With the left depressed in 2025, much of the cultural energy belongs to the right. But where’s it going to go?
One increasing possibility appears to be that newly self-confident right-wingers are getting into various kinds of New Age woo, the occult, gnosticism, RFK Jr. junk science, paganism, Indian esotericism, Chinese numerology, health food fads, etc. In other words, all the old craziness satirized by Umberto Eco in Foucault’s Pendulum, plus some new innovations like AI cults and God knows what else.
G. K. Chesterton supposedly said, “The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.” (Note that Chesterton never quite said that: This most famous Chestertonian epigram is actually an admirably succinct paraphrased summation of G. K.’s train of thought by his admirer Émile Cammaerts.)
The current right-wing coalition between tech bros and chuds opens up all sorts of possibilities, both highbrow and lowbrow.
For example, Silicon Valley is into psychedelic drugs lately.
And much of New Age is motivated by physical discomforts suffered by aging humans, which they like to blame on poisoning. Hitler blamed race poisons, others blame seed oils and microplastics.
(Excerpt) Read more at takimag.com ...
“Socialism,” George Orwell famously wrote in ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ (1936), draws towards it “with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist and feminist in England.” His tirade against such “cranks” is memorably extended in other passages of the book to include “vegetarians with wilting beards,” the “outer-suburban creeping Jesus” eager to begin his yoga exercises, and “that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come flocking towards the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat.”
Just more projection from the Left...
WTH? None of this is true at all.🤣🤣🤣🤣
this guy is an idiot
This dude needs a break from that weed he’s smoking....
Everything is on the web—thousands, even millions of sites that cover all sorts of topics—and many of them are on our side politically.
Taki’s is not left wing.
The publisher Taki Theosomething long and Greek cofounded The American Conservative magazine with Pat Buchanan.
Also wrote for Bill Buckley back in the 70’s.
But he does hate lowbrow culture.
too much ouzo!
“Outer-suburban Creeping Jesus” would be a great name for a thud rock band.
He might be right about this for all I know. What he says comes from the social circles he’s part of, but he makes the mistake of assuming “everyone” is into this. He said that several times. These may be trends among people who “count”, but I don’t see much of it as a member of the hoi polloi.
“For example, Silicon Valley is into psychedelic drugs lately.”
Lately? In the early 80s a company I worked for chip designers was using LSD ‘to improve their circuit layouts and visualize novel approaches’.
Their ad campaign featured Alice in Wonderland.
The tone I’m reading is he’s searching, brainlessly, for any way to disparage MAGA.
I think he missed the core of MAGA, which is truth and righteousness.
Could be.
As usual.
Big time!
Obviously.
💯.
Neither Steve Sailer nor Taki are on the Left. Taki in particular provided Buchanan a place to get published.
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