Remember when you were a Leftist? You thought that the Left figured it out, that the Right just Doesn't Think Deep Enough. Then you Thought Deeper and Deeper, thinking you would become more and more Left. Then you found these obscure theorists and oh, what's that? She's a leftist but she doesn't like Identity Politics? Didn't know
that was possible. He's a nationalist? I guess that's okay as long as he's a Non-White Nationalist, hehe.
Now you're in the Dirtbag Left. You don't like woke capitalism and idPol. You read Zizek, maybe Lacan, maybe someone less mainstream you just learned about today. And you discover
r/sorceryofthespectacle. And you see some guy saying that once you're here you either go Mark Fisher or you go Nick Land. But then you hear that lecture by Mark Fisher saying Nick Land is kind of okay (how could he not? they're both Cyberz). Wait, is Deleuze a Fasist? Is Heidegger? Is Badiou? But I thought fascists were bad. And then these obscure online mag you've been fallowing for a month turns out to be fascist, (well, not quite, they're actually NRx, or tradcaths, or something you've never heard of), but didn't they hate liberalism and capitalism and the evangelicals?
Now you're confused. You go into
r/sorceryofthespectacle and demand to know what the fuck is going on. Are you guys communists? are you fascists? are you trolls or nihilists? They answer with some Joycean proto-pyschotic babble. One guy quotes Evola, says he's a superfascist. You don't know if he's being ironic. Perhaps even he doesn't know. Then you remember Lacan (is he a fascist too?). You remember the Real, you recall how the Real doesn't allow for meaning and coherence. You remember there is no meta-language and begin to wonder if there is also no meta-politics.
Based, you think to yourself. You feel smart and post it to
r/sorceryofthespectacle. You get karma and feel good. Is this the Spectacle everyone's always going on about? No, It Must Be The Real Of Jouissance. Now you can rest. You are happy. And just how many times have you told yourself that before.