Reply #6: Funny... [View All]

[NoGodsNoMasters]

But he also makes some good points, about the fundamental psychology of the far right. They're militarism, authoritarianism, xenophobia... He hits right on the money with the "daddy' complex, although T wouldn't have put it that way, but on the other hand my way wouldn't be particularly funny, I digress.. This reminds me of a discussion I was having with a friend. All far-right personality types are patriarchial, and believe in strict, rigid gender roles, they also put themselves up as the picture of manliness. Our conception of masculinity is complex, involving biological reality, history, social convention, folk wisdom, and literary archetypes, but we all basically understand how our society/the west defines this. What I find interesting of republican fetishes, sports, the military, business... what I find interesting, is that all of these preoccupations involve submission to a strict identity and a dissipation of the self into a unified mass. Funny, I have always thought of "independence', and "individuality' as cardinal, "masculine" virtues....