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A New World Disorder

A New World Disorder

Part Three in a series on Bonapartism

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Jul 04, 2022
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The Collapse of the Extreme Centre

These powers and the institutions which wield them used to belong to us. The strange orthodoxies of managerial bureaucracy are supplanting the customs and traditions which made us who we are. It is a curious feature of the identitarian craze that it results in the elision of identity in groups, and its abolition in nations. Factionalism makes tropes of people, which is the result of the grievance taxonomies into which centrism manages its convulsing populations.

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Anything that speaks of the before time, of the past which we all used to share and which filled our lives and entertainment has been marginalised. It is a devastating cultural revolution, prosecuted by the heirs of Roy Jenkins and Lyndon Johnson, to whose politics some kindly refer to as paternalism. These are bad fathers, and they have sired a host of enemies.

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