but it's hard to find a functioning organization that doesn't have some of his characteristics because a certain in-vs-out distinction is necessary to an organization surviving as much as a cell needs a membrane. "Anti-fascism" as it as practiced today ticks at least eight of the boxes.
Then maybe it's time to move beyond the membrane and start thinking about evolutionary corrections to the membrane :)
E.g ion-channel-, purine-/aromatic-heterocycle- based signalling systems, all of which are subject to (epi-)genetic control
(bearing in mind that eukaryotes have an extra-- nuclear -- membrane)
>"Anti-fascism" as it as practiced today ticks at least eight of the boxes.
This is why I consider antifa & other forms of representative identarianism (a mediocre implementation of eukaryotism, imho), including democratic socialism as promoted by Orwell*, as being right-wing.
*who has been equivocal about any non-emotivist definition of fascism:
>Someone who felt and expressed this fascistic feeling, according to Orwell, was the Irish poet W.B. Yeats. Writing A Vision in 1925 Yeats described his idea of utopia: "every detail of life hierarchical, every great man’s door crowded at dawn by petitioners, great wealth everywhere in a few men’s hands, all dependent upon a few"
Ironically.. meritocracy (which one can argue IngSoc is..) seems left-wing to me. This suggests that we should distinguish meritocracy from "meritocratic feelings"
The (political) "great man" is a paradox: he apparently overcomes (vertical) evolution but is a slave to emotivist realities. This paradoxical messianism appeals to identarians of all stripes-- vestigial in 1984 as a semi-nonymous BigBro--
The nonpolitical great man is a more subtle paradox: the great wealth supposedly concentrates unbelievable agency, but history has shown that this kind of agency is negative-sum-- if the wealth acquisition was not a pure side-effect of the agency. (Will SamA be great because he is rich or rich because he is great? News in 2 decades' time!)
"We" require open-ended or at least higher-order paradoxes to bypass "stasis of the meritocratic dead-center" .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism
but it's hard to find a functioning organization that doesn't have some of his characteristics because a certain in-vs-out distinction is necessary to an organization surviving as much as a cell needs a membrane. "Anti-fascism" as it as practiced today ticks at least eight of the boxes.