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#traditionalism

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Waywords Studio

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀” 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲 -

Clarke's original Caribbean hybrid of history and myth is an act of art and decolonialization, of imagination and resistance to the mainstream, though not wholly penetrable to audiences beyond the island culture.

#bookreviews#literature#books
DoomsdaysCW

From 2017...

"The rhetoric of a looming civilizational war has proved persistent. Recent years have seen religious leaders from both the American Christian community and the Russian Orthodox community coming together to bemoan the decline of traditional values. One example is the 2015 Moscow meeting between #PatriarchKirill, the head of the #RussianOrthodoxChurch, and #FranklinGraham, son of the evangelist #BillyGraham. The Patriarch lamented to Graham how, after decades of inspiring underground believers in the Soviet Union with its defense of religious freedom, the West has abandoned the shared 'common Christian moral values' that are the bedrock of a universal 'Christian civilization.'

"But even as Bannon and various religious leaders seek to pit the values of Christianity against those of Islam, there is also an internal competition to decide who gets to define Christian #traditionalism. Two of the main players in this competition, American Christian traditionalists — including conservative Catholics like Bannon as well as evangelicals like Franklin Graham — and Russian Orthodox, are united in their desire to save Christendom from the perceived threat of radical Islam. But buried underneath that superficial agreement is a complex disagreement as to what Christendom even means.

"In Bannon’s telling, the greatest mistake the baby boomers made was to reject the traditional 'Judeo-Christian' values of their parents. He considers this a historical crime, because in his telling it was Judeo-Christian values that enabled Western Europe and the United States to defeat European fascism, and, subsequently, to create an '#EnlightenedCapitalism' that made America great for decades after World War II. The enormous amount of media attention he has received and his various interviews, talks, and documentaries strongly suggest that he believes the world is on the verge of disaster—and that without Judeo-Christianity, the American culture war cannot be won, enlightened capitalism cannot function, and 'Islamic fascism' cannot be defeated.

"This is where Bannon invokes the 'Russian traditionalism' of Vladimir #Putin, and it’s important to recognize why he does so. In his 2014 Vatican talk, Bannon made it clear that Putin is 'playing very strongly to U.S. social conservatives about his message about more traditional values.' As a recent Atlantic essay convincingly argues, upon his return to office in 2012, Putin realized that 'large patches of the West despised #feminism and the #GayRights movement.' Seizing the opportunity, he transformed himself into the 'New World Leader of #Conservatism' whose traditionalism would offer an alternative to the libertine West that had long shunned him."

Read more:
theatlantic.com/international/

Archived version:
archive.ph/BndXk

#NewWorldOrder? #MAGA #MAGADeathCult #ChristoFacists #ChristoFascism #ProFamily #TraditionalFamily #TradWives #AntiGay #AntiAbortion #ROC #Evangelicals #CorporateColonialism #Oligarchs #AntiWoke #TrumpIsARussianAsset

The Atlantic · Steve Bannon's Coalition of Christian TraditionalistsBy Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"As the Bannon-Musk feud suggests, these two worldviews look to be incompatible — a rift at the heart of the MAGA universe based on fundamental disagreements about humanity, God and our future. If this rift were to grow, it could potentially undermine the entire movement. But what if these worldviews are more similar than they initially appear? What if they were to merge into a single syncretistic vision of the future, founded on utopian fantasies of paradise made possible by advanced technologies like AI? That is, in fact, already happening: MAGA traditionalists are embracing elements of transhumanism, while some MAGA transhumanists are turning to Christianity.
(...)
The similarities between these worldviews are striking. They share the conviction that we are in the end times; the promises of resurrection, immortality and perfect happiness in a heavenly otherworld; and the belief in a superintelligent being whose actions will determine the course of cosmic history. Nonetheless, there remain some nontrivial differences: for example, transhumanists invert the traditional relation between God and humanity. They say that we will create God, and hence be his parents, whereas Christians say that God created us, and we are his children."

truthdig.com/articles/machine-

Truthdig · Machine Learning MAGA: Rise of the Christian Cyborg - TruthdigThere are signs that the transhumanism of Elon Musk is merging with the traditionalism of Steve Bannon.
#USA#Trump#Transhumanism
VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

"The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive Fantasy" by @sentientmedia

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Another component for Kennedy of what constitutes “natural” is taking on things like red food dye, seed oils and ultra-processed foods — while promoting tallow, raw milk and grass-fed beef.
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sentientmedia.org/mahas-natura

Vegans often are faced with fallacious arguments, and one of the most common is the Naturalistic fallacy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturali

However, this is often a bad faith disguise. The use of naturalistic fallacies in these contexts, such as the claim that consuming animals is "good" because it's natural, is a disguise for another more insidious fallacy: the traditionalist fallacy or "appeal to tradition".

simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appe

The traditionalist fallacy is, in this context, the argument that "consuming animals is good because we've done it for thousands of years".

Traditionalism is heavily political, as the people are finding out again in places such as the US. It's sometimes known as "paleoconservatism", and it should be no surprise that the popularity of the "paleo diet" culturally connects to this.

Conservatives, ever since the rise of modernity (end of 'traditional' society, end of monarchism and feudalism) have been trying to reinvent the past through pseudointellectual and pseudoscientific efforts. This has been at the heart of incredible amounts of suffering and horror since then. I have some notes on that on my pinned thread: veganism.social/deck/@veganpiz

Bullshit & snake oil are not vegan.

A support cheers for Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Sentient · The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive FantasyThe rise of the carnivore diet, and the search for simplicity.
#MAHA#meat#grassFed
VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

«Russell Brand: "I was Vegan, Now I'm Eating Steak at Mar-a-Lago"»

youtube.com/watch?v=mg7apWY03C

Mic provides a summary of Brand's transformation to a great career move in the capitalist and extremely carnist world: a traditionalist proponent & grifter (a match made in Eden), a type of predator who sells ideological props of wellness and identity. An illusionist (bullshit) artist getting rewarded for maintaining the traditional status quo and making people feel good about acting as bigots, as assholes, as psychos. Again, a great career move, as that's where the money is, where the rich are.

YouTubeRussell Brand: "I was Vegan, Now I'm Eating Steak at Mar-a-Lago"By Mic the Vegan
#RusselBrand#Brand#JoeRogan
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Purplle lite

#Political parties often align internationally with others that share a similar ideological worldview, even if their material or strategic interests don't fully align.
For #conservative parties, this alignment might be rooted in shared values such as #nationalism, #traditionalism, or skepticism toward #progressive policies.
This affinity creates a sense of solidarity across borders, but it can lead to blind spots where ideological compatibility overshadows practical implications.

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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

13/🧵

"Climate populism will be the next great conspiracy complex"

Prepare for more denialism in the shape of conspiracy stories, such as those about animal meat going away...

aeon.co/essays/climate-populis

Update your bingo cards? Not sure what the right phrase is here.

AeonClimate populism will be the next great conspiracy complex | Aeon EssaysThe most ardent deniers of anthropogenic climate change today will become the climate conspiracy theorists of tomorrow
#climate#GHG#climateChange
Toni Aittoniemi

Well worth a read: As our interconnectivity profilates and technological provess multiplies, so does belief in #magic.

It’s not just new-age hippies & faith-healers anymore, it’s silicon valley #postrationalism and #effectivealtruism going along with the #manifesting & #occult, up to even rooting for Julius Evola’s fascist magic & #traditionalism (a favourite of Russia’s Aleksandr Dugin)

Sure, if you know it’s just self-hypnosis. But record shows that slips away easy😓

aeon.co/essays/how-the-interne

AeonHow the internet became the modern purveyor of ancient magic | Aeon EssaysBending a mysterious world to your will was the goal of esoteric practices. Now it’s the unashamed aim of the tech titans
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