Reactionaries draw a line in history where they want to return to and call that “tradition”. For Americans, it’s laughably recent. Japanese fascists at least want to go back to before the nuclear family, but their call to “retvrn” is similarly unserious and is reminiscent of the “Greek”-obsessed statue guys. Ignore all the homosexuality, ignore the paganism, ignore the female emperors… We totally want to retvrn guys it’s just that 99% of the past did it wrong, too so we gotta correct that. 🙄
Yeah, they’re usually just kind of insinuating their desired order is traditional, papering over any information to the contrary. Weaponized “theme park” history.
Reactionaries draw a line in history where they want to return to and call that “tradition”. For Americans, it’s laughably recent. Japanese fascists at least want to go back to before the nuclear family, but their call to “retvrn” is similarly unserious and is reminiscent of the “Greek”-obsessed statue guys. Ignore all the homosexuality, ignore the paganism, ignore the female emperors… We totally want to retvrn guys it’s just that 99% of the past did it wrong, too so we gotta correct that. 🙄
Yeah, they’re usually just kind of insinuating their desired order is traditional, papering over any information to the contrary. Weaponized “theme park” history.