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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

"Left behind by modernity, and then by postmodernity, much of the third world never had a working systematic mode, and so now doesn’t understand why that can’t work. As in the West in the 1930s, the obvious response is to try to make eternalism work by force. Fundamentalism and totalitarian nationalism—fused in every third-world version—are attempts. As these fail, they become ever more desperate, and therefore ever more extreme and violent."

#DavidChapman

https://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-modernism

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Fundamentalism is countercultural modernism | Meaningness

Fundamentalism is not traditional; it is a modern, countercultural movement, opposed to tradition and to post-modernity.
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Strypey
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

Chapman is describing the Global South ("third world "), but what he says here is eerily accurate when applied the US and UK in 2026.

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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

"Since ISIS is pretty much the worst thing in the world now ..."

#DavidChapman

This claim has not aged well. It's pretty obvious that Orange Stalinism is the worst thing in the world right now. But for reasons explained on the linked page, I think its days are numbered, so my claim too has a shelf life. As dies any such claim by its very nature.

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