04-02-2022, 10:59 AM
Little a wide swath of you brilliant guys on here, I am a fan of the Dark MAGA meme. First and foremost, it's the right and just aesthetic for the declining days of neoliberalism. It invokes cold-hearted revenge -- the type of revenge the Biden regime has earned through incompetence and malice. Dark MAGA also makes one hope that Trump and his coterie have learned their lessons, i.e., accommodation with neocons and the uniparty is not possible. It's either takeover or get swallowed. The name for smiling faces is done.
But I created this thread for a simple reason: what does Dark MAGA mean to you and what are its ideal forms?
For me it is akin to something that I wrote in my book Full Moon Reaction. Namely, the United States is a land wherein multiple Northern European bloodlines intermixed (English, Scots-Irish, Dutch, German, and Finnish) amidst a foreboding wilderness. This bread a type of dour hardiness that is so often associated with the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay. Those same Puritans saw the New World's woods as teeming with "devils," and even the non-Puritan settlers of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and beyond had a deep interest in superstition and magic. Dark MAGA then would be a return to an older America -- an America more fundamentally religious, rooted, and serious. These are attitudes required to correct our obvious decline.
I also think Dark MAGA has a strange overlap with cryptids and New Age kitsch, both which are predominately American obsessions. This strand is much harder to articulate, but can be connected with conspiratorial thinking and Internet-derived populism.
What are your thoughts?
But I created this thread for a simple reason: what does Dark MAGA mean to you and what are its ideal forms?
For me it is akin to something that I wrote in my book Full Moon Reaction. Namely, the United States is a land wherein multiple Northern European bloodlines intermixed (English, Scots-Irish, Dutch, German, and Finnish) amidst a foreboding wilderness. This bread a type of dour hardiness that is so often associated with the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay. Those same Puritans saw the New World's woods as teeming with "devils," and even the non-Puritan settlers of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and beyond had a deep interest in superstition and magic. Dark MAGA then would be a return to an older America -- an America more fundamentally religious, rooted, and serious. These are attitudes required to correct our obvious decline.
I also think Dark MAGA has a strange overlap with cryptids and New Age kitsch, both which are predominately American obsessions. This strand is much harder to articulate, but can be connected with conspiratorial thinking and Internet-derived populism.
What are your thoughts?