The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Friday, August 9, 2013

Bloods vs. Crips: politics as gang war



People who’ve had the misfortune to witness an episode of the old McLaughlin Group will understand what those who truly care about politics are like.

Comment thread as a battle of soccer hooligans.

Francois Furet wrote in his great book, The Passing of an Illusion, that the communist movement of the 20th Century was driven by nothing so much as pure, venomous hatred of the bourgeoisie.

Others have observed that all political movements are motivated by that sentiment, the object only being different from one faction to the next.

And yet, normally, comment threads at partisan sites are composed exclusively of enthusiastic endorsements of whatever was said in the parent post, however fatuous, vicious, or absurd and, ordinarily, utterly hateful.

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