Thanks, Frank. I was just working on another piece that notes that--while Trump is arguably among the least intellectually-curious presidents in history--his administration really is full of people who take radical ideas seriously, which is how we end up in this hell spiral. The contrast is also illustrative: Try to imagine a Democratic administration being guided by the thought of Wendy Brown or Mark Fisher - totally impossible, laughable even.
This is a real service to the political discussion as a whole. The left seems to think that because these guys are limited in their grasp of the needs of the political whole, they will be dismissed. We now know better. We can see the reactionary nature of the Trumpian march through the institutions of government, the contempt for the law and hostility towards the under class. The teenage understanding of Nietzsche is just what one would expect from socially underdeveloped tech bros.
Thanks, Frank. I was just working on another piece that notes that--while Trump is arguably among the least intellectually-curious presidents in history--his administration really is full of people who take radical ideas seriously, which is how we end up in this hell spiral. The contrast is also illustrative: Try to imagine a Democratic administration being guided by the thought of Wendy Brown or Mark Fisher - totally impossible, laughable even.
This is a real service to the political discussion as a whole. The left seems to think that because these guys are limited in their grasp of the needs of the political whole, they will be dismissed. We now know better. We can see the reactionary nature of the Trumpian march through the institutions of government, the contempt for the law and hostility towards the under class. The teenage understanding of Nietzsche is just what one would expect from socially underdeveloped tech bros.