#MetaphorWarfareSocialJusticeWarriorSJW #PhenomnBodyAdornmentMakeup #OtheringOutGroupTransgressiveDegenerate #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues #TheoryModernism #TheoryCodedMasculinity #IRLSingerSongwriterTaylorSwift #TheoryModernityLate ?

#OrgClassifPPITFratelliDItaliaFDLGiorgiaMeloni ^[Wikipedia] "While Reagan had declared victory more than three decades ago, Meloni has heralded a pushback if not an open revolt against the same forces which have now reincarnated grotesquely. It is also a declaration of war against an invisible internationalist regime, which in her words wants all of us 'to simply be perfect consumer slaves.' Her viral speech is a powerful and compelling reformulation of the widespread condemnation of the anti-woke discourse, which has gained strength in recent years." https://thedharmadispatch.substack.com/p/giorgia-melonis-triumph-is-a-wake #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRonaldReagan #TheoryGlobalisation #PoliticsCapitalismConsumerism

"...they attack gender identity, they attack family identity. I can't define myself as Italian, Christian, woman, mother, no! I must be citizen X, gender X, parent 1, parent 2. I must be a number. Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators." #IdentityConservativeChristian #CatchcryDiosPatriaYReyGodFatherlandKing ^[Wikipedia] #NarrativeUtopiaHomeland #BrandSagePublicationsEncyclopediaOfMotherhoodAndreaOReilly "The image of the prolific, chaste, and virtuous 'national mother' is a strikingly common symbol across nations. Traditional, patriarchal images of women as mothers are central to the nationalist project of myth making and its actual biological continuity into the future. Pure and virtuous mothers are believed and expected to reproduce the nation in body (children and future nationals) and mind (preservation of past traditions, food and ritual, and language). Heterosexual women and mothers symbolize and are expected to preserve the nation's past, present, and future. The political man is constructed as rational, objective, and devoid of emotion in peace time, and defenders of the nation in war. In contrast, women are pictured as virtuous reproducers of the nation, stereotypically innocent victims, needing protection from men. The differential treatment of men and women 'of the nation' is believed to be necessary to ensure and secure the group's survival. The nation's future is believed to hinge upon the chastity of its women--jealously guarded or protected from the ravaging hands of the Other." ^{[academic source]} #PhenomnRoleFamilyMother

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Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesJasonHorowitz "Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right leader who is likely to be the next prime minister of Italy, used to dress up as a hobbit. As a youth activist in the post-Fascist Italian Social Movement, she and her fellowship of militants, with nicknames like Frodo and Hobbit, revered 'The Lord of the Rings' and other works by the British writer J.R.R. Tolkien. They visited schools in character. They gathered at the 'sounding of the horn of Boromir' for cultural chats. She attended 'Hobbit Camp' and sang along with the extremist folk band Compagnia dell'Anello, or Fellowship of the Ring." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/world/europe/giorgia-meloni-lord-of-the-rings.html #IRLAuthorJRRTolkien #1954_TheLordOfTheRings #VlogKidologyZandilePowell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehq816TC3Ow #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight #PoliticsFascismPost #PoliticsFascismNeo #PoliticsNationalismItalian #IRLPhilosopherPoliticalGasparMiklosTamasTGM ^[Wikipedia] #CatchcryIdentityPolitics #IRLEssayistElemireZolla #1984_TheNeverEndingStory #NarrativeValuesCosmopolitan / #TheoryModernityLate #PoliticsNationalismXenophobicNativism #PleaNostalgia #NarrativeUtopia #IRLPhilosopherHannahArendt #1951_TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism ^[Wikipedia] #2024_TheKidsAreAltRight (9 minutes in), 13:45 15/01/2024, BBC Radio 4, 15 mins. ^{[media archives]} (Accessed 17 Jan 2024). #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations

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#NewspaperUKTabloidTheNationalAbbiGartonCrosbie ^[Muckrack] "In a clip posted by Turning Point UK, the UK branch of Charlie Kirk's right-wing campaign group, on social media, dozens of people could be seen dressed in black with the phrase 'King's Army' emblazoned across their front in gold. They can be heard chanting 'Jesus Saves' in the rain while members of the public walk past. 'Activists from the 'King's Army' block traffic in Soho in protest of the immoral culture in the 'sex district',' the caption by Turning Point UK reads. It is not clear if Turning Point UK were involved in the stunt. However, the clip they posted on Twitter/X has gathered over 980,000 views, with many social media users assuming that they were behind it. However, the groups appear to be separate entities. The original footage appears to have come from the King's Army's Facebook page, posted at 1.17am on Saturday October 4." https://www.thenational.scot/news/25518686.bizarre-footage-shows-evangelical-group-black-uniforms-target-soho/ ^[forum] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0q19gyQdNA #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUK #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSACharlieKirk #BeliefTheismDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondonSoho #BeliefTheismChristianityDenomEvangelicalismTheKingsArmy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebTB040V1kM #ToponymEuropeUKEnglandLondonBuckinghamPalace #MetaphorWarfareArmy #MetaphorWarfareSoldierFighter

"In 50 years, we will talk about Blanquer as we talk today about Joseph de Maistre or Louis de Bonald, as we talk about those who in the 19th century thought 'progress as a disaster'" #CatchcryCancelCulture #TauntIslamoGauchismeIslamoLeftism ^[Wikipedia] #IRLHistoricalFigureLouisDeBonald ^[Wikipedia] "counter-revolutionary philosopher". #OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREJeanMichelBlanquer ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorPeriodization19thCentury

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Context #NewspaperFRBrdshtLiberationSimonBlin: "La nouvelle star des bons gros dossiers déclinistes de Valeurs actuelles, du Point, du Figaro, de Marianne, et des débats sur Europe 1 (version Bollo), CNews ou Sud Radio. [The Minister of National Education has decided to tackle a major problem at the start of the school year. Educational inequalities? No. 'Wokism'. For those who don't know what this is - because they don't have a Twitter account (most people do) - this is the latest topic of ongoing right-wing outrage.]" https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/apres-lislamo-gauchisme-vous-prendrez-bien-un-peu-de-wokisme-20210722_VYPDIOCGO5HTPGP23HJS2GCC24/ #TheoryDeclinism: #MagazineFRValeursActuelles, #MagazineFRLePoint, #NewspaperFRBrdshtLeFigaro, #MagazineMarianne, #NMFRCanalPlusCNews, #NMFRSudRadio ^[Wikipedia] #NMFREurope1 ^[Wikipedia] #IRLBusinesspersonVincentBollore ^[Wikipedia]

#IRLHistoricalFigureJosephDeMaistre ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorSpatialHierarchyStratificationSocial #PhenomnAgeOfEnlightenmentCounterEnlightenment

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Context https://merionwest.com/2019/05/15/who-was-joseph-de-maistre-and-why-he-matters-today/ And ^{[digital archives]}

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Supplementary #MagazineAUQuilletteMattMcManus "conservatives decry postmodernism for undermining belief in traditional epistemological and moral standards. These criticisms are not especially powerful, since they are largely predicated on a nostalgic desire to hold onto those specific standards regardless of their tenability... Postmodern conservatives increasingly regard strong truth claims about knowledge and morality with active suspicion and even hostility. This is because they regard the intellectual and cultural 'elites' who produce knowledge and popularize moral norms as progressive, abstract, and unlikely to sympathize with their concerns. Rather than attempting to formulate alternative claims about knowledge and morality which might have some epistemic and meta-ethical tenability, postmodern conservatives reject even these standards. Instead, they largely appeal to identity as the locus for epistemic and moral validity. This is, in turn, used to rally political support for a given agenda designed to restore that identity to power." https://quillette.com/2018/05/17/emergence-rise-postmodern-conservatism/ #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated

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#VlogPlasticPills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkVFssgvk4k&t=2s #HandleRedditCriticalTheory ^[commentary] #IRLPsychologistJordanPeterson #AdvocacyUSIntercollegiateStudiesInstituteIS https://vintage.isi.org/intercollegiate-review/peter-lawler-postmodern-conservatism/ #EDUUSBerryCollegePeterAugustineLawler ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPHUFideszMagyarPolgariSzovetsegViktorOrban #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #TheoryModernityLate #IRLPhilosopherJeanFrancoisLyotard #IRLPhilosopherFredricJameson ^[Wikipedia] #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSRonaldReagan #TheoryPostmodernGrandNarrativeMetanarrative ^[Wikipedia] #IRLScientistPoliticalYoshihiroFrancisFukuyama #1991_PostmodernismOrTheCulturalLogicOfLateCapitalism ^[Wikipedia] #TheorySociologySocialFragmentation #PhenomnPolarisation (or, #PhenomnPolarisationDivisiveIssue as seems to be a more common conservative characterisation) #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreMusicGrunge #TheoryNihilism #NarrativeBelongingNationalIdentity #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #OrgSyndicateMusicUSNSYNC #2000_ItsGonnaBeMe ^[Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQMlWwIXg3M #2007_GlobalFinancialCrisisGFC #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPTeaParty #NMUSBreitbart #IRLIdeologueMiloYiannopoulosAKAMiloAndreasWagner #CampaignLogoBarackObamaO #IdentityLGBTQIASameSexMarriage #PoliticsStatusQuo #TVFirefly ^[Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUKTheBrexitPartyReformUKNigelFarage #OrgClassifPPITLegaPerSalviniPremierLSPMatteoSalvini #OrgClassifPPRUSUnitedRussiaVladimirPutin #ToponymEuropeHungary #ToponymEuropePoland #ToponymAmericaNorthUS #ToponymEuropeItaly #ToponymAmericaSouthBrazil #PhenomnBrexitReferendum #ToponymEuropeFrance #ToponymEuropeGermany #2020_WhatIsPostModernConservatismEssaysOnOurHugelyTremendousTimes #CharacterisationTechBroTechRight #WebsiteTheConversationLeonorGoncalves "Peterson argues that, like humans, lobsters exist in hierarchies and have a nervous system attuned to status which 'runs on serotonin' (a brain chemical often associated with feelings of happiness). The higher up a hierarchy a lobster climbs, this brain mechanism helps make more serotonin available. ... According to Peterson, hierarchies in humans work in a similar way - we are wired to live in them." https://theconversation.com/psychologist-jordan-peterson-says-lobsters-help-to-explain-why-human-hierarchies-exist-do-they-90489 #MetaphorSpatialHierarchyStratificationSocialLobsterKing #NMUKITVChannel4NewsCathyNewman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54&t=413s #CauseEqualityGenderPayGap

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Addendum postmodernism's focus on contingency leads you towards infinite variation i.e. the a priori of the uniquely differentiated individual (where identity is the only commonality). Paradoxically, this is in contradiction with a social-conservative position, which is simultaneously centred around the a priori individualism and the a priori of shared values albeit ones, which are fixed and necessarily unchallengeable (because of their supposed absolute certainty/truth) e.g. 'family values', 'Christian belief' etc. The problem then for social-conservatives is not postmodernism's centring on the individual but in its attacks of what is understood to be sacred/sacrosanct - in short, *tradition*. #TheoryPostmodernContingency #TheoryIndividualismSelfActualisation #PoliticsConservatismTraditionalist #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #NarrativeValuesFamily And: #EDUCAMcGillUniversityInternationalReviewMIR https://www.mironline.ca/what-is-post-modern-conservatism/ And? http://politicalcritique.org/world/2018/post-modern-conservatism-or-how-the-right-became-what-it-hated/

#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #MetaphorDiseaseMental #CauseFeminism

#ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues

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Context this image is a #CharacterisationDerivativeWorkCoOption. The original, full-frame illustration shows a #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych comparison of a mother and her daughter. This version has been cropped significantly. The illustration was created by #CaricaturistLaineyMolnar ^[forum] Unlike this cropped version, the original presents a positive interpretation, where "Me at age 31" represents a contemporary, #NarrativeValuesCosmopolitan and #PoliticsLiberalismLiberalWorldview as contrasted with the depiction of a #PhenomnRoleMarriageHousewife and #PhenomnRoleFamilyMother as per "My mom at age 31" reference. The implication is that the change is the positive consequence of changing attitudes and presumably, the impact of #CauseFeminismWomensLiberationMovementWLM

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Addendum #IRLSociologistAndreasReckwitz "instead of constructing an antagonistic clash between various cultures (and their cultural patterns), I would like to argue that in late modernity we witness a much more antagonism between what I call, 'regimens of culturalisation': not cultures facing off against each other but, more fundamentally two contrary conceptions of what culture means, and therefore two contrary formers, which the cultural sphere is organised. In late modernity a wide-ranging, culturalisation of 'the social' is taking place, however it has two forms, that are very different from each other: Culturalisation1 as I would like to call it, can be observed as a culturalisation of forms of life and sort of global cultural market: here cultural good compete for the subjects who are striving for individual self-realisation. This is what I would call #TheoryHyperculture. Culturalisation2 is a different regimen. This culturalisation aims at collectives, and sets them up as communities sharing an identity and a set of morals. It employs, a strict inside/outside dualism, and follows the model of homogeneous communities created as 'imagined communities': this constellation I would call #TheoryCulturalEssentialism. #TheoryModernityLate (and #TheoryModernityLiquid as defined by #IRLSociologistZygmuntBauman) is marked by conflict between these two regimens of culturalisation, which has led to a contradictory constellation of opening and closure." (transcript of video extract running from 4:03 to 5:36). https://www.mmg.mpg.de/342842/online-lecture-2019-02-27-reckwitz See pages 14-15 in Reckwitz, A. and V. A. Pakis (2021). 'The End of Illusions: Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity'. Cambridge, UK, Polity Press Cambridge, UK. ^[Worldcat] In some senses, this conceptualisation of 'hyperculture' and 'cultural essentialism' feels reminiscent of #IRLSociologistFerdinandTonnies' #TheorySociologySocialRelationshipsGesellschaft (individual oriented, business and commerce dominate) and #TheorySociologySocialRelationshipsGemeinschaft (group oriented, tradition dominates) ^[Folksonomy] Also #IRLHistoricalFigureEmileDurkheim Given this, Tonnies' theory was directed towards understanding the transformation from the pre-urban to the urban, not late modernity as per Reckwitz theorisation. Interestingly, the conceptualisation provides some explanation for antagonism towards #TheoryGlobalisation, exemplified by the #OtheringElitesGlobal caricaturisation as proffered by #PoliticsConservatismSocialSoCon.s Reckwitz's point about: "subjects who are striving for individual self-realisation", might tie into #IRLPhilosopherLouisAlthusser's #TheoryInterpellation (this needs to be explored further). Additionally, #IRLScholarTimothySnyder's #TheoryPoliticsOfInevitability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8&t=87s feels reminiscent of (at least how Reckwitz explains it), Fukuyama's #1992_TheEndOfHistoryAndTheLastMan theory.

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#IRLSociologistMaxWeber, #IRLScientistPoliticalSamuelHuntington #1996_TheClashOfCivilizations #MetaphorSpatialContainerOpenClosed #IRLScientistPoliticalYoshihiroFrancisFukuyama #IRLScientistPoliticalShmuelEisenstadt / #TheoryModernitiesMultiple ^{[academic source]} #IRLScholarDanielLerner ^[Wikipedia] #IRLSociologistAlexInkeles #IRLSociologistPeterWagner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GphbeoJowwE&t=255s #IRLPhilosopherJeanFrancoisLyotard #IRLSociologistEdwardShils ^[Wikipedia]