5/17/2023 0 Comments Neon drive vaporwaveAs Angela Nagle argues in her recent book Kill All Normies, the focus on media and culture instead of on formal politics is what has given the alt-right so much power over the minds and bodies of young men. In spite of its apparent intellectual impotence, the alt-right has burst into the public eye - and they’ve done it through their relentless use of images. And let’s not get into the degree of political and organizational power these (mostly young) men have shown to have in the US. Baudet’s speech wasn’t just any speech, but a speech in parliament, where his party now holds two seats (of a total of one hundred and fifty). Baudet’s maiden speech is a good example of how shallow, messy, factually, and in his case grammatically wrong the alt-right’s approach to the classics often is - but there is still a very real danger here. This is not confined to the US - in the Netherlands, newly elected politician and alt-right favorite Thierry Baudet held his maiden speech in “Latin.” Although the alt-right is scattered and fragmentary, the staggering amount of classical references in its memes, writing and music - we’ll get to the music later on - seems like a consistent strategy: (ab)using the classics gives the movement an air of intellectual accomplishment and a sense of traditionalism.Īs Mary Beard pointed out, Mr. It isn’t news that the so-called “alt-right” loves the classics.
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