Kontextmaschine

16th August 2018

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Anonymous asked: There's a problem with your 4chan-will-reshape-the-world-in-its-own-image theory: we know what a nation collapsing looks like, it looks like organised crime becoming feudal powers, and I don't think any sort of gang are channers (if anything, chan culture is influence by their propaganda)

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I get that model, but I bring up 19th century Euro nationalism because it was a real thing, like “let’s use some rustic themes in this symphony”, “let’s look to our own rural traditions as just as real and valid as Greek Antiquity” quickly became “let’s kill the aristos and realize the National Destiny”.

And if that was just a mask for robber baron magnates to make the agrarian->industrial turn and build a system that favored their own arrogations over any principle just like the Ancien Regime, it still happened like that

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