Didn't Dion Fortune write somewhere about propaganda that to make it really effective the mage has got to pull in a lot of images of sex and death? Point being, it seems to me that the racialist right and the socialist left both have really ace propaganda going back for well over a hundred years. From Fourier onward there's an erotic component to socialism and especially of the Rev. I remember we discussed in some comments section how dreams of mass death have an element of 'le gran mort', that is, they tend towards a certain level of over-the-top erotization. I've seen that socialists want to convert other socialists....and then date them. I would go as far as to say that this desire to have sex and do interesting things accounts for a huge number of the evangelical push.
Likewise, with the racialist right and their hang-ups, with their hang-ups on "kith and kin" with their talk of sexual traditionalism, with their nonstop talk around breeding, really, the racialist right has a huge series of erotic fixations that are embarrassingly similar to the unexpurgated froth one finds all throughout the pages of The Arabian Nights. As for entryism, I think that the reasons are clear: they want to convert more people so that they can have more sexual partners. This accounts for the insensate rage one sees in many quarters still regarding the image of blond women using their sexual freedom to date brown people. Quite obviously there is resentment on account that the woman in question --- a woman as lovely as the Moon, Scheherazade would doubtless say --- is no longer is sexually available.
Point being, both socialism and the racialist politics of the right seem to me reworkings of the Christian myths in which one has the mythic structure of that faith especially the Apocalyptic portions but with a mindless suction of erotic energy cast off from Christianity as a portion of "the world" and now finding its force in frankly pornographic politics.
Even more to the point, I would even go farther and say that 'entryism' could be a basic euphemism for the erotic act. I've known quite a few 'entryist' men who will say literally anything to enter into conjugal relations with a good looking dame. These men may lack the sophistication of the politically cognoscenti, but the behavior is the same and I'd argue has the same biological imperative as other forms of "entryism". What makes the political entryism so much more appealing to so many folks is that it combines the desire to fornicate with the desire to enact violence. This desire for tribal violence is, as Fortune noted, very attractive stuff. I notice the way that young men stand up straight with their shoulders back when discussing tribal violence; I notice how women's face become luminous as they open themselves like a road as they discuss tribal violence. Obviously, when certain subjects come up many people lose the ability to reflect on their own thoughts and motivations, and simply let their base impulses guide them towards...er...entryism. Socialism and rightist racialism are, to my mind at least, simply the two most popular veneers for covering over the sort of egregiousness I've parodied in this comment. Two popular, contending ideological justifications in which the ends always justify the means, and the ends are the basest impulses that people have decked out in stolen, sanctified drag.
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Likewise, with the racialist right and their hang-ups, with their hang-ups on "kith and kin" with their talk of sexual traditionalism, with their nonstop talk around breeding, really, the racialist right has a huge series of erotic fixations that are embarrassingly similar to the unexpurgated froth one finds all throughout the pages of The Arabian Nights. As for entryism, I think that the reasons are clear: they want to convert more people so that they can have more sexual partners. This accounts for the insensate rage one sees in many quarters still regarding the image of blond women using their sexual freedom to date brown people. Quite obviously there is resentment on account that the woman in question --- a woman as lovely as the Moon, Scheherazade would doubtless say --- is no longer is sexually available.
Point being, both socialism and the racialist politics of the right seem to me reworkings of the Christian myths in which one has the mythic structure of that faith especially the Apocalyptic portions but with a mindless suction of erotic energy cast off from Christianity as a portion of "the world" and now finding its force in frankly pornographic politics.
Even more to the point, I would even go farther and say that 'entryism' could be a basic euphemism for the erotic act. I've known quite a few 'entryist' men who will say literally anything to enter into conjugal relations with a good looking dame. These men may lack the sophistication of the politically cognoscenti, but the behavior is the same and I'd argue has the same biological imperative as other forms of "entryism". What makes the political entryism so much more appealing to so many folks is that it combines the desire to fornicate with the desire to enact violence. This desire for tribal violence is, as Fortune noted, very attractive stuff. I notice the way that young men stand up straight with their shoulders back when discussing tribal violence; I notice how women's face become luminous as they open themselves like a road as they discuss tribal violence. Obviously, when certain subjects come up many people lose the ability to reflect on their own thoughts and motivations, and simply let their base impulses guide them towards...er...entryism. Socialism and rightist racialism are, to my mind at least, simply the two most popular veneers for covering over the sort of egregiousness I've parodied in this comment. Two popular, contending ideological justifications in which the ends always justify the means, and the ends are the basest impulses that people have decked out in stolen, sanctified drag.