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It just dawned on me that conservatives freak out about sissy hypno because they’re unironically weak willed and can be manipulated by the stupidest mantras and symbols (hexbear.net)

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[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

Taking this seriously, this pops straight out of the hyper-idealism of modern chuds. Formerly fascists were right-hegelians when they could muster the effort to read, but now they're naive idealists.

Instead of refuting baudrillard and crushing the "cathedral", like the NRx psudointellecutals tried to proclaim; they've turned Baudrillard on his head, and believe material reality is created by using symbology to form a hyperreality and then physically manifest it by violence. It's like a bastardised version of ritual Magick, the Order of the Golden Cudgel

Well, they're not coherent enough for that but if they were that's what they'd be described as doing .

So of course they're obsessed by symbols they really do believe they manifest reality.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

believe material reality is created by using symbology to form a hyperreality and then physically manifest it by violence. It's like a bastardised version of ritual Magick, the Order of the Golden Cudgel

I can see why crystal healing granola hippies have an overlap with fascists

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

Well, they're not coherent enough for that but if they were that's what they'd be described as doing .

Isn't what you're describing basically the hyperstition/meme magic shit that at least some of them do proclaim as part of their nihilistic irony poisoning?