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50 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 16h \ on: Return of the Strong Gods: My Thoughts BooksAndArticles
Is the idea that societies oscillate between periods of strong and weak gods or that the strong gods are a stable foundation that we strayed from?
The latter is closer to the thesis. I don't think we really see an ossillation in history. Not really.
He talks about the whole deconstruction pattern and critical theory as well. I mean, one could go back further and see the roots of much of our world today. Many have.
He doesn't advocate for people to idolize the strong man. His thesis is more that this is a consequence of ignoring the pull toward the strong gods.
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I'm reminded of the speech that got Jeff Deist "in trouble", where he was just acknowledging that people care about things like "blood and soil".
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Got him into trouble? Missed that. Sounds rational to me.
Some people really need to get out of their bubbles. Meet some people not from Europe or in Ivy League schools.
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He intentionally chose a "fascist" phrase to make the point more provocatively.
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Ah. I think the US is in denial about how fascism influenced US WW2 politics. The two borrowed heavily from each other.
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I still get annoyed when I hear people getting all spun up about nationalism. As if pretty much everyone wasn't a nationalist prior to WW2. It's just stupid. Many are still but are just in denial about it.
You have globalists and nationalists. Those are the primary positions today. Some of us are more individualists but we are a small minority
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