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In Trump world, Reality is negotiable... (Original Post) pbmus Jan 2019 OP
Rejection of Modernism Thomas Hurt Jan 2019 #1

Thomas Hurt

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1. Rejection of Modernism
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 06:18 PM
Jan 2019
Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped
technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional
spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements,
its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth
(Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the
capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of
1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of
modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.


Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco (1995)
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