Excellent analysis, Slick. You shine needed light into the dark recesses of the twisted soul and troubled collective consciousness of the far right. Myth and the power of the symbol is shamelessly misused to achieve domination and regression to an authoritarian hierarchy. As a psycho-historian, I like to hear more about “what hurt you, Julius Evola?” Your summary of Cassierer’s take on myth and his limitations is spot-on, as is your dissection of the hollow-stick figure, the Q-Anon Shaman, who exclaimed ungratefully upon beng pardoned -“Gonna get me some f-ing guns!!”
Excellent analysis, Slick. You shine needed light into the dark recesses of the twisted soul and troubled collective consciousness of the far right. Myth and the power of the symbol is shamelessly misused to achieve domination and regression to an authoritarian hierarchy. As a psycho-historian, I like to hear more about “what hurt you, Julius Evola?” Your summary of Cassierer’s take on myth and his limitations is spot-on, as is your dissection of the hollow-stick figure, the Q-Anon Shaman, who exclaimed ungratefully upon beng pardoned -“Gonna get me some f-ing guns!!”