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<blockquote data-quote="Harem Scarem" data-source="post: 1289535" data-attributes="member: 12478"><p><strong>RE: White pills thread (Anti-Clown World)</strong></p><p></p><p>Always liked folk rock like Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention. It's devoid of the worship of ugliness and filth that's mandatory in music today. It demonstrates the link between the people and the soil, and cultural significants, all the way back to the Middle Ages.</p><p></p><p>People can say that it's bad because it's post-60s rock music which is all degenerate. Then someone else can come in and say that it all went down the tubes in the 1950s, in the 1940s with the Allied victory in WWII, in the 1910s, in the Victorian era, in the 1790s, whatever. But in that case we never had a chance and we should all commit mass suicide like the Jews supposedly did at Masada. An act that is still celebrated today even though its historicity is disputed. So nowadays when I find myself confronted with apocalypticism and fatalism of any kind, I always just think to myself: "Consider the source..."</p><p></p><p>Obviously music and other cultural products of the past are always a good antidote, but for me the most optimistic thing is just people getting together and organising in real life, people consciously rejecting what it has lately become fashionable to call "Clown World". Just yesterday there was a packed hall at the party congress of the Forum for Democracy here:</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=twitter]1200766090453962753[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>I have my quibbles about them, but these guys have been in existence for only 5 years now (of which less than 3 years as an actual political party) and they've consistently done things that everybody (both leftwing journalists and right-wing gatekeepers) said was totally impossible. They've built a movement from the ground up. By the next year they'll probably have more card-carrying members than any other political party in this country, when all the experts "know" that the model of party membership is dead and that you should just do everything through social media (which they're also good at, but isn't the main focus). </p><p></p><p>You get a stage filled with people from all walks of life: conservative intellectuals, farmers, anti-feminist young women, a classical orchestra, a rapper, the US ambassador, journalists involved in creating a new TV broadcasting agency for the "forgotten men and women", I could go on and on. Meanwhile the same old gatekeepers, including in "right-wing" publications, are shitting their pants over the "normalisation of the far-right".</p><p></p><p>We know from the US situation and the way the groypers are treated that this is only the beginning, and the struggle will become harder rather than easier over time, but I have massive respect for the people who are doing it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harem Scarem, post: 1289535, member: 12478"] [b]RE: White pills thread (Anti-Clown World)[/b] Always liked folk rock like Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention. It's devoid of the worship of ugliness and filth that's mandatory in music today. It demonstrates the link between the people and the soil, and cultural significants, all the way back to the Middle Ages. People can say that it's bad because it's post-60s rock music which is all degenerate. Then someone else can come in and say that it all went down the tubes in the 1950s, in the 1940s with the Allied victory in WWII, in the 1910s, in the Victorian era, in the 1790s, whatever. But in that case we never had a chance and we should all commit mass suicide like the Jews supposedly did at Masada. An act that is still celebrated today even though its historicity is disputed. So nowadays when I find myself confronted with apocalypticism and fatalism of any kind, I always just think to myself: "Consider the source..." Obviously music and other cultural products of the past are always a good antidote, but for me the most optimistic thing is just people getting together and organising in real life, people consciously rejecting what it has lately become fashionable to call "Clown World". Just yesterday there was a packed hall at the party congress of the Forum for Democracy here: [MEDIA=twitter]1200766090453962753[/MEDIA] I have my quibbles about them, but these guys have been in existence for only 5 years now (of which less than 3 years as an actual political party) and they've consistently done things that everybody (both leftwing journalists and right-wing gatekeepers) said was totally impossible. They've built a movement from the ground up. By the next year they'll probably have more card-carrying members than any other political party in this country, when all the experts "know" that the model of party membership is dead and that you should just do everything through social media (which they're also good at, but isn't the main focus). You get a stage filled with people from all walks of life: conservative intellectuals, farmers, anti-feminist young women, a classical orchestra, a rapper, the US ambassador, journalists involved in creating a new TV broadcasting agency for the "forgotten men and women", I could go on and on. Meanwhile the same old gatekeepers, including in "right-wing" publications, are shitting their pants over the "normalisation of the far-right". We know from the US situation and the way the groypers are treated that this is only the beginning, and the struggle will become harder rather than easier over time, but I have massive respect for the people who are doing it. [/QUOTE]
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