/lit/ - Literature

>>10978903
>I also wonder if a Dugin emerges in the west. Like eventually frenetic western cyber-traditionalism boils over and becomes as tragic as what you can find in eurasia.

in the united states 2016 produced at least one pretty good example: pic rel. glenn beck said it: bannon's ideology was essentially duginism for the US. he was crazy about evola and the fourth turning and much else. he wrote trump's bane-citing God and Patriotism speech, talked about Economic Nationalism, much else.

one difference is that dugin takes heidegger as his foundational guy and bannon doesn't. he seemed to prefer evola and god only knows what else.

>>10978984
no. with one happy, if short-lived, exception i've only ever worked fuckface jobs for minimum or near-minimum wage. i have a worthless double major from a good uni and a graduate degree from another pretty good one in a field i hate. neither really relates to philosophy or cultural stuff, which is all i think about.

clearly i am designed for some kind of shitposting but everything i read about the state of universities these days tells me that i should probably avoid that all for now. i've always been into reading but i never really cared all that much about politics until about 2015. i guess i just sort of naively assumed that university scholars and political figures knew what they were doing. after all, they looked and sounded so self-assured...

...so i just read and read and read and eventually just sort of tried to figure things out on my own. things sort of fell into place around girard after wandering through other continental guys. hence the somewhat idiosyncratic nature of my shitposting here.

i'm kind of like the wild man of borneo who discovered a shipwreck full of books and dead scholars on the beach one day and became deeply confuso-fascinated with what they meant.