Sublime

In the same way that liberalism opens the door to progressivism which opens the door to socialism, Taylor’s genteel race realism opens the door to racism of the vulgar kind. One day Mona Lisa is the world’s greatest masterpiece; the next she is on bookmarks and adapted on greeting cards. Leonardo da Vinci could not have imagined such a thing, but h

“Born in part from transformations in technology and communication, diagonalists tend to contest conventional monikers of left and right (while generally arcing toward far-right beliefs), to express ambivalence if not cynicism toward parliamentary politics, and to blend convictions about holism and even spirituality with a dogged discourse of indiv

“The rationalist utopia is a power trip,”

Goad’s analysis of race and class in America broke through to academia, in Penn State professor Shannon Sullivan’s superb 2014 book Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism. Sullivan, who is very left wing, takes a scholarly approach to Goad’s ideas and agrees with many of his conclusions.

However, twenty-first-century technology may enable external algorithms to know me far better than I know myself, and once this happens, the belief in individualism will collapse and authority will shift from individual humans to networked algorithms.