Speaking as a foreigner (occasionally) resident in the UK, what strikes me most about Britain is its cultural effiminacy. I think its long-term decline was set in stone once the American colonies became an escape valve for the lively yet subjugated Anglo-Saxon spirit. A masculine creative spirit. What's eventually left is the unchallenged Norman superstructure. (I'm thinking of Mitchell Heisman's Anglo vs Norman worldview here.) That's the real 'Great Replacement'. It's hard to imagine a William Blake or a DH Lawrence existing in Britain today, but you could imagine them reborn as American.
What I notice when I come back to London is the lack of investment in infrastructure. Like the internet is one third the speed of Istanbul; the trains are expensive and frequently cancelled; gas water electric are just insanely overpriced. To me, if you give up on infrastructure, you're giving up on the future.
Btw, I don't find all non-Western countries in the shit like the UK is. I think UK media tries to make it seem like it's global.
As someone interested in Reichian ideas, I think comparing the current political trajectory of the US and UK is interesting. Both have deeply embedded permanent infrastructures of state, Whitehall and Washington, which tend to function like macro-organisms. They react to any perceived threat to their continued existence, mobilising considerable resources - public funds, legislation, media - to push back against demands for reform. In both countries, there's considerable reasoned opinion that most of the countries woes come back to the difficulties in changing embedded structures like these.
Both countries also experienced populist uprisings that began mid last decade - Brexit, Trump.
In both countries, the Right have utilised populist / conspiratorial narratives - immigration, Islam, Epstein etc - to try to mobilise working class anger and direct it towards regime change.
Yet, in only one has that rebellion borne fruit - the US, where Trump is now president.
The reason for that seems clear to me. There is simply less cultural suppression of libidinal energy in the US, you have a lot more Reichian aggressive or rigids. Whereas the UK is rammed full of pre-egoic structures - leaving, oral, enduring - all libido suppressing.
At the end of day, the US public still have sufficient libidinal vitality to get up and create change. The Brits, it seems, simply do not. Too many have been too crushed early on.
Speaking as a foreigner (occasionally) resident in the UK, what strikes me most about Britain is its cultural effiminacy. I think its long-term decline was set in stone once the American colonies became an escape valve for the lively yet subjugated Anglo-Saxon spirit. A masculine creative spirit. What's eventually left is the unchallenged Norman superstructure. (I'm thinking of Mitchell Heisman's Anglo vs Norman worldview here.) That's the real 'Great Replacement'. It's hard to imagine a William Blake or a DH Lawrence existing in Britain today, but you could imagine them reborn as American.
Very well put, and something I want to touch on in my next post regarding the UK Vs Albion, the latter is where Blake lived.
What I notice when I come back to London is the lack of investment in infrastructure. Like the internet is one third the speed of Istanbul; the trains are expensive and frequently cancelled; gas water electric are just insanely overpriced. To me, if you give up on infrastructure, you're giving up on the future.
Btw, I don't find all non-Western countries in the shit like the UK is. I think UK media tries to make it seem like it's global.
As someone interested in Reichian ideas, I think comparing the current political trajectory of the US and UK is interesting. Both have deeply embedded permanent infrastructures of state, Whitehall and Washington, which tend to function like macro-organisms. They react to any perceived threat to their continued existence, mobilising considerable resources - public funds, legislation, media - to push back against demands for reform. In both countries, there's considerable reasoned opinion that most of the countries woes come back to the difficulties in changing embedded structures like these.
Both countries also experienced populist uprisings that began mid last decade - Brexit, Trump.
In both countries, the Right have utilised populist / conspiratorial narratives - immigration, Islam, Epstein etc - to try to mobilise working class anger and direct it towards regime change.
Yet, in only one has that rebellion borne fruit - the US, where Trump is now president.
The reason for that seems clear to me. There is simply less cultural suppression of libidinal energy in the US, you have a lot more Reichian aggressive or rigids. Whereas the UK is rammed full of pre-egoic structures - leaving, oral, enduring - all libido suppressing.
At the end of day, the US public still have sufficient libidinal vitality to get up and create change. The Brits, it seems, simply do not. Too many have been too crushed early on.
England lives and marches on.