CULTUROPATHIC REIGNS

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Culturopathy is a sickness of the Right -- & of that Right which even calls itself the Left. Who are these? Racists-once-removed who denounce America or Empire with the same snide tone that once, and still, accuses the Jews. Soft sadists who empower facist regimes with their demand for non-judgement and non-interference. Intellectual sentimentalists who reject their "gut" as if it were the same monster of powers which the simple conservative imagines it to be...

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Right-winged culturopathy is hysterial & psychotic -- given to theatrical accusation and periodic public murder. Their politics has the form of the poorly trained small-town guard dog who knows its place only when it barks widly at intrusive foes and friends alike. Beliefs, loudly held, are tools with which to denounce. Wonderment is voiced without curiousity. Meaningless and shallow discrepancies are constantly "uncovered" in the speech of those with complex and extra-local instincts.

Left-winged culturopathy is neurotic, emotionally shallow, given to an empty mixture of pessimism and humanistic idealism. Typically it rejects human beings in favour of History & Society and it weilds self-destruction in its affirmation of toothless ideals... whose actual reign would be an open invitation to all of culture's enemies both human and non-human. Here is a vapidity masquerading as openness, a sorrow becoming weakness rather than depth, a life-thwarting cynicism which always says that "they, The Powers" work inevitably against "us, the sane & sensitive" -- a paranoia against the Gut rather than from the Gut.