Far-Right Intellectuals

>Chesterton
>far right
Shut the fuck up

you fell in a meme my friend, a culture should be preserved and promoted (oxymoron), if it's only preserved is a dead thing.

Are you denying that Chesterton's idea are reactionary?

next you'll tell me LOTR is not reactionary literature

that's right, but that's because we come from an epoch were blind belief in experts either in neoliberal economics or in social engineering interventions was the norm, the anti-intelectualism is a response to the failure of both those dogmas which are no longer tenable, it's a normal restructuring which any ideology that wants to flourish in the present will have to confront.

the right was able to ideologically confront both, even though once they are elected they double-down on neoliberal economics which will be their downfall when people's lives keep getting worse under their government

the left was more or less able to confront the neoliberal economics (although this is arguable seeing the victory of factions like Hillary > Sanders), but they are still doubling down on the neoliberal social engineering which will not work as long as people feel like they are living meaningless lives, and the new generations see nothing in the older generation to aspire to, that could warrant keeping the same path and trying to imitate your parents or older siblings in their ideological dreams

even if you want to follow marx you have to conceive of people as the kind of creature whose nature alienates him when living on a capitalist mode of production.

I don't understand theses threads, "Far-Right" Intellectuals occupied most of history, the Alt-right would be disgusted by Kant's opinion of women or Lawrence's opinion of low-brow culture.

Liberals (commies don't do this very often) frequently hold two contradictory beliefs about history: whig view of history and that far right ideas were never common. An example of this is how american liberals often say that white nationalism is anti-american.

You only have to go back 150 years and the far-left would be considered moderately conservative today; Marx and Engels hated "Negroids" and the avant garde/futurism.

Death of the author literally sets itself to that reading.

Tolkien himself was just a moderate reactionary, the ones that hate nazis, but socially are anti-modern.