Thursday 9 February 2017

The Orcas of the alt right.

“specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”― Max Weber,
I
 watched a Channel 4 news last night . I saw on it a feature on the alt right . As I reflected on it I noticed that the word for my bus app for today was Orca and there I had it. I saw figures aping the Oxford look of the 20s . They were male, they apes a posh accent .They smoked , called themselves Libertarians , they denied feminism and all looked like one another. They all tried to look like a young Milo Yannopoulus of Brrritbart news. Many explained that the alt right had begun to emerge out of the a compost of the Cameron years and the red Tories of Labour prior to 2016. If you read your history you see people like them who flirted with fascism in the 20s ...The likes of Ezra Pound , the fictional Jean Brodie ...Well they are back and it's disturbing and shows that those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it ....Last September I debated with someone who looked just like them .He claimed that Hitler was a socialust ....I heard the same coming from this alt right last night ...

Makes you wonder ?



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