Sunday Thoughts August 07, 2022

If it is Sunday, well, it is Sunday. 

Not much happening in the news this week and I did a news show on Friday, so I thought this week I would talk about something else. I have been spending time thinking about the various cults that haunt the current age. I did a Taki post on the cult of Gaia last week. I have talked about the neocons as a cult and may do a post on the topic at some point. There are other cults out there, as well as ad hoc cults that form up around news events. The Russian collusion hoax is a good example.

I had a bunch of tabs open to neocon stuff so after seeing that the news was dry, I figured thirty minutes of talking about the cult of neoconservatism might be a good way to pass the time on a lazy summer Sunday. The thing I keep circling back to with these people is how they are feverishly reworking their thing to ingratiate themselves with the Left, which they see as a new host. It suggests coordination, but is this just instinct at work or are they sitting around plotting this stuff?

I tend to lean toward the former. This is due to spending most of my life in and around large organization and seeing them drift off course. In the corporate world you see a lot of careful planning that ends up nowhere near where the planners expected. After a while you start to think of the best laid plans as a man in a boat fighting the current to reach the shore. Often, the man makes the shore, but not exactly where he expected. Sometimes he is just swept down the river and forgotten. 

My sense with the neocons is they viscerally reacted to Trump’s nativism because they grew up in households equating populism and nativism with fascism. That and you know who has become something of a demigod in the secular faith of these people. The chants of “never again” are a reminder to them that it will happen again and this time they must be prepared this time to avoid you know what. Trump triggers this subconscious programming leading them down the river to the cult of Never Trump!

The problem is it disconnected them from their host. They need a host so they are searching around for a suitable replacement onto which to attach their thing. This is why they are increasing hysterical in the way we associate with the far-left. A Jennifer Rubin post is a form of echolalic babbling as she tries to emulate what she hears from the new host. It is not front brain thinking. This is instinct. Her limbic system is pushing her to this new host and she is trying to find cover in it by emulating it.

Topics

• Jennifer Rubin

• The Bulwark

• Jonathan Last

• A. B. Stoddard

• Charlie Sykes

• Cathy Young

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