Recent content by stelfox

I do know what you mean. Personally, I was reading through it in the hope that it would end in him challenging someone to a duel – which he's apparently done before. (Part of a grand rightwing lunatic tradition, as it happens - David Myatt did it quite a lot, back in the day.)

That said, I would actually be interested to know what he's getting out of all this, really deep down, because I can't imagine it's much.

I was doing other things last night and there's a time difference to consider. too. I wouldn't have wanted to talk to him, though. Particularly the way he came into this, challenging people to tell him what he'd done that was wrong. It's not like he doesn't know.

You've hit on something important here. I was about to write about laziness in my earlier post, but, errr.... thought it might take too long. There's a hell of a lot of intellectual bone-idleness about it all. It's really hard, draining and emotionally costly work to attempt to shine in a...

I'm quite fascinated by them. They're really tragic, on the whole. I've often thought that there could be a really good novel based around a central character like that.

When people get to the kind of place he's reached, I think they see the mocking as a validation of having risen above the herd, so you're absolutely correct. Not much cause for feeling sorry for him, though. It's just annoying, deluded and daft. The "intellectual" far right is a particularly...

It's what would happen if you read some stuff by Jonathan Bowden, watched Dead Poets Society and then wrote a poem.

The "Ride the Tiger" line in that poem video is genuine – unintentional – comedy gold.

I guess the reason I did not post here much earlier, which I was outed about - so this is your fault, Luka - is because all this is quite raw and feels weird. But, as per above, it has been useful. A space for thinking aloud is a really good thing. For ages, I have spent a lot of time...

Not at all. DonÂ’t know Miller in the slightest. I guess what’s bothered me is that a lot of it is tied up with a specific time when we all got to know each other, that actually meant quite a lot to me and I don’t want it all to turn into dead people and dodgy politics. Not that it’s going to...

I’ve also found this the most productive and actually quite good-natured and, in the grand tradition of Dissensus, slightly weird and off-piste discussion of something that’s been bothering me for a little while.

This kind of politics is pretty personal and much bigger than that at the same time. Not sure you can really avoid that.

It’s also worth mentioning that I don’t think anyone being discussed here is a fascist, by any workable definition, apart from Pearce and, possibly Land. Fascism is a fairly specific ideology and not synonymous with “reactionary, controversialist bellend” . Not everyone with shit views is a Nazi...

Hmmm, I view fascists as antithetical to unity, impure, other and degenerate, so by that rubric, I’m in a spot of bother.

I don’t really have a grudge against intellectuals at all and am actually reasonably well grounded in theory. I’ve just always thought that people, in general, are smarter than a lot of us give them credit for and that if I can understand something, then there’s a fair chance that a hell of a...