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[–]Ethnosomniator 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I like him, and why not as he's smart, (self?)educated and opinionated. However, Keith probably overestimated his role. Any form of revolution will only receive the slightest of pushes from philosophers. The grandest argument for "thinkers" usually comes from commies and socialists who cite a number of amusing ancedotes about small circles of nerds who built ideas that culminated in the great revolutions, upheavals and wars of the 20th c. However, Alt Righters should know better because we know that ultimately these "worker" uprisings were ethnically motivated shadow revolutions.

Philosophy can help with context and to some degree even meaning. The real fight unfolding will be rather straight, brutish, and as non-intellectual as it gets. "A thousand plateaus" will be less relevant than Spider Man comics because the enemy has managed to wrap everything into a narrational blanket that beats rationality every time. Spider Man smashes the Nazis like Hercules defeats Amtæus, acting out of time and place as a reoccuring mythological pattern that unites divine justice and telluric struggle and breathes identity into morally and spiritually deprived drones.

Keith is good. Subscribe and click "thumbs up". He is just an attractor, though.