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I’ve been thinking about QAnon a lot lately.

When I think of QAnon, I’m mostly just annoyed. From the right angle, the QAnon movement looks like a Ferrari on cinder blocks. A movement as large, as passionate, and with the kind of missionary zeal of QAnon could do some serious damage to the system if they knew what the hell they were doing and if they understood what the hell they were up against. Read more …

Published: February 3, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Capitol occupation, conservatism, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, North American New Right, originals, political organizing, QAnon, the internet, Travis LeBlanc | 30 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Seven

Derek Hawthorne

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

With the gulls now retreating, Mitch and Melanie leave the Tides restaurant and make their way up the hill to Annie’s house to retrieve Cathy. All is deathly quiet. As they approach the schoolhouse, they see that the crows are back and perched all over. “Look, the crows again!” Melanie says breathlessly. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, class conflict, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, knowledge, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, spirituality, The Birds, the bourgeoisie, the uncanny, tribalism, women | 4 Responses

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Who’s Your Daddy, America?

John Wilkinson

Norman Rockwell, Settling an Argument, 1922.

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It is time to face the ultimate truth. It is time to swallow the last red pill. It is time to look in the mirror and point the finger at our reflection.

America’s problem is that we are a nation without fathers, without men. We are a nation of children raised by children. Preoccupied with toys and trinkets, shiny playthings that divert our attention, we shirk responsibility and cry when we don’t get our way. Read more …

Published: June 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, fatherhood, John Wilkinson, masculinity, modernity, North American New Right, originals | 9 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Five

Derek Hawthorne

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

In the last installment, I began to explore the possibility that The Birds can be understood as an “existentialist” parable. I argued that the film depicts what Heidegger calls das Ereignis (the event): a sudden and fundamental transformation of the meaning of everything. Read more …

Published: June 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, apocalypse, articles, being, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, environmentalism, hubris, knowledge, Martin Heidegger, modernism, mortality, nature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, scientism, The Birds, the uncanny | 8 Responses

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Network:
A Populist Classic

Trevor Lynch

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Written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, Network (1976) is a sardonic, dark-comic satire of America at the very moment that its trajectory of decline became apparent (to perceptive eyes, at least).

Network has an outstanding script and incandescent performances, which were duly recognized. Chayefsky won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Peter Finch won the Oscar for Best Actor Read more …