CHANGE THINGS SO THAT NOTHING WILL REALLY CHANGE!

Don’t we get here an extreme version of the joke about eating the last cannibal? “There are no opponents of diversity and inclusion in our group—we’ve just excluded the last one…”

The most important thing to note about the current resurgence of rightist populism is how this resurgence is regularly perceived by its partisans. A single rhetorical figure returns again and again in different variations: the new populists advocate moderate normality against the violent imposition by the corporate media and the extreme left. The constant pressure of LGBT+ ideology makes you feel somehow guilty if you are just a normal “cis” woman or man, as if being “binary” is in itself an act of oppression. There is a constant threat of being canceled for some act or statement where the rules that make you blameworthy are never clearly formulated in advance. A speech act or a gesture which was acceptable a week ago is all of a sudden prohibited. The urge to exercise constant self-humiliation, as if racism and sexism are not just your properties but are inscribed into your very existence, all of this effectively seems to create a stale and suffocating atmosphere, in contrast to many marginal and allegedly “subversive” identities which you are solicited to enjoy fully.

An extreme case of such a burst of fake fresh air into the suffocating pressure of wokeism was recently provided by Michael Millerman, an American Heideggerian who sympathizes with Aleksandr Dugin. He recently published on YouTube a podcast titled “Why is everything normal called fascist?” Here is his own summary of his stance:

“What’s up with the ‘everyone I don’t like is Hitler’ phenomenon? It’s strange but not incomprehensible. Post-war liberal zealotry (combined with leftist antifascism) coded a lot of things as ‘far-right’ and made them taboo, including some important things that we need in order to understand political and human life well.”