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>>9053038
Not that guy, but I'd like to hear more of your thoughts on Bannon/Trump/Alt-Right/NRx/etc.

>an economic network emerging that is devoted to the sole cause of furthering the “ethno” element of the equation (the moralization of the economy)
This is an interesting idea. Explain more of what you mean by this also? Do you mean as in the pic related/Zizek sense or something else?

A 'moralized economy' would be a spectacular ideological fantasy, no doubt. I guess what I am wondering is if you mean this in the same sense that I am used to thinking about it: that consumption itself requires us to enjoy, and that in a sense is that moment of pleasure that, while not being moral in a philosophical sense, closes the ideological loop (until we desire again). That's what people have been doing for years in the regular neoliberal way; by 'moralization of the economy,' are you suggesting that Bannon has something other than this in mind?

Weirdly what comes to mind is something like Warhammer 40K (or the crusades): it's hard to have a more moralized political economy than a cultural holy war. Certainly there's enough fervent love on the right today to produce one - coupled with a nausea with capitalism so deeply ingrained that it drove Nick Land beyond reality and back...and I have to say, I find some of his arguments persuasive. And in a political sense NL's thought is next door to NRx and reaction, which takes us back to Trump...

In the end, the amoral pleasure of Enjoy eventually reproduces itself as the dissident right's righteous love for capitalism; kind of amazing. A political mandate exonerates the perverse and guilt-ridden private angst of desiring things that don't ultimately make one happy, they don't really proffer the escape one wanted. Or maybe, rather, we always loved capitalism, because that is where Enlightenment reason manifests, in a Landian sense, and we only went astray for awhile in the 20C - though necessarily, in order to rectify many of the genuine social ills that thought produced. And now Bannon wants to take things back in that direction...?

The dissident right to me seems to be offering a return to Enlightenment thought which, at its best, displays an understanding of its defects, that reason is not always rational, while at its worst signalling a repetition of those same errors out of a combination of fury, loathing, and despair. The absence of communication between blue and red is not good, nor is the scarcity of politics-free media; but maybe these things had to happen. I do not, generally speaking, have a positive outlook about the future. But they are interesting times indeed.