The New Criterion - Right Wing?

Yes but be prepared to abandon Frogtwitter as if it were the plague as soon as it starts becoming too cliquish and bogged down by cliche old memes. This must be the attitude with all online communities: have a path of flight ready at all times and be prepared to flee when things go South. Frogtwitter is a feedback loop like any other social media circle. If it reinforces itself too much then it will decay. This is already happening--many prominent accounts are not as good as their peers lead them to believe. This is obvious to an observer on the outside, perhaps less to the agents who themselves constitute Frogtwitter.

>t. poorfag

Is that dark ages larping shit? History doesn't work like that.

>You dun goofed if you're a stalinfag.

Not a tankie. I just hate American conservatism for ruining the planet in front of our eyes. It is also a disgusting cash-grab for the cheapest and most short-sighted of the ruling class. It is the professional wrestling of political coalitions. Neoliberals have not only a much better chance of stabilizing safer global capitalism, they also seem to want to leave something beside a hellhole behind for their grandchildren. Both are pork, but socialism won't be contrived into existence. If capitalism is what we have now I'd like it if the US Republican party would stop shitting it up please.

Do you recommend this publication?

A common symptom of any "political movement" in the twenty-first century. Rifts are apparent to anyone who isn't onboard solely for Trump. It's probably still my favorite place for content creators who aren't complete fags.

And they've been bodying ironycel retards beyond belief lately, so that's a plus.

>Neoliberals have not only a much better chance of stabilizing safer global capitalism, they also seem to want to leave something beside a hellhole behind for their grandchildren.

Yes, the only thing better than a republican hellhole is a third world democratic favella hellhole.

Both futures seem pretty bleak to me, but I'd rather not succumb to the shortest path to living in Africa.

>Is that dark ages larping shit? History doesn't work like that.

Wrong and not an argument.

A state comes into order when people wish to maximize leisure. The same for technics. Technics orders society because advancing technics requires changing social resource allocation. Never once in history has the majority of the world regressed in general political order. Western feudal society never took a backward step back into foraging society. All historical moments of great political and cultural advancement happen as the result of economics changing in response to changing technics. Unless you all are predicting some y2k scenario, there is no reason to believe that the modern late-capitalist liberal state will regress back to some feudal model. It is simply not built for the way we produce things anymore. We can't ditch capitalism, we can only transcend it with the means it provides.

>third world democratic favella hellhole.

Scandinavia is a real hellhole. Maybe post a dubious rightist article amount immigrant rape stats in Germany. You know what would stop Syrian refuge? Not contributing to the single most harrowing existential threat to the human species that is currently causing cultural instability in the middle east as people become desperate to change something before their entire country fails.

Hilton Kramer was a good right wing art critic.

After he passed away it became a cesspool of people complaining about piss christ, roger scruton throwing shade at the french, and how the marke is the best solution to the art world's problem. Plus jokes on the democrats.

If you want the real patrician publication get the times literary supplement.

The latter, famalamadingdong

How's this for an argument: you were btfo'd by scott alexander

Politics itself is for intellectual bottom-feeders.

Try and imagine the perfect political system.

Who makes the decisions for this system? Is it a group of well-informed, talented leaders?

Or is it a bunch of truly ignorant dipshits only concerned with their own immediate prosperity? People who will only make decisions that make them feel good?

Just read fiction and be happy you live in the west.

lol gay

Thanks for discussing the topic. I just wanted a nice lit/art mag. I read the first article about terror attacks in Britain which states that the population is harboring a bubbling unconscious rage toward muslims, and that this is a good thing.

I only read a few of the other editorials. I'm bummed about the annoying politics. However, I at least hoped that the content would be apolitical. I was so hopeful that "conservative" would balance out to something like Harold Bloom's literary conservatism.

>Plus jokes on the democrats.

Eh, it's a little stale coming from a place of vanilla US conservatism.

>American conservatism for ruining the planet in front of our eyes
mein gott get a clue

The American Right is on the verge of creating a totalitarian theocracy and if trump doesn't subsidize solar panels for Nigeria the the planet will be dead in ten years!

t. not a smoothbrain

the best was when they went apeshit insane for bob dylan winning the lit nobel.

Every article was for the first half a long diatribe about how this was further proof that the left cherishes art for its politics and not its merits, and the second part was about how bob dylan is actually a bad pick because... of his politics?

Now I'm not a fan of bob dylan, and I was bummed in him winning the nobel, but the patrician move was to actually propose some valiant candidates and propose some actual critic of his talents as a wordsmith (which to be are mostly based on vague hand-gesturing, easy empathy, and charisma borrowed from the mood of the 60s).

Instead it's just conservatives being bitter and as partisans as the worst leftists.

Again get the times literary supplement for really good very technical criticism. It's mostly book reviews so the writing is a bit here and there, but who writes good book reviews today except James Wood?

>and if trump doesn't subsidize solar panels for Nigeria the the planet will be dead in ten years!

Maybe we'd have more luck shooting for better solutions if a certain party wasn't in the happen of shifting the overton window in the direction of science denial.

>Instead it's just conservatives being bitter and as partisans as the worst leftists.

That's what a lot of The New Criterion seems to be. Some articles have been decent, but equally many have been real eye-rollers. Overreaction or obsessive treatment of culture wars baloney is boring. I don't care to read much that only embodies a negative project and a tedious one at that.

Who is this 'we?'

They had the good sense to publish Guy Davenport, but they've been fighting the same battle against political correctness and multiculturalism for 25 years.

Foreign Affairs is pretty good, if you want a political magazine
It's centrist as fuck, but they don't lie to you

Go back to /leftypol/, brainlet. It's your ideology that appeals to the bottom feeders.

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