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Barack Obama seems to be composing the most generic, centrist establishmentarian cabinet possible. Most conservatives seem to be pleasantly surprised and most leftists seem to be suprisingly pleased. Each side is even crowing at the other’s expense: the right is claiming that the left, hoping for a changey, anti-Bush administration, has been had; while the [...] Continue reading Everyone’s Happy! We could see modernity as a kind of swerve (a “clinamen,” in Harold Bloom’s taxonomy of influence, for all you former English grad students) away from Christianity: the model of Jesus on the Cross, who has willingly taken upon himself the hatreds directed toward the scapegoat and thereby exposed the fundamental fraudulence of scapegoating, [...] Continue reading Victimary Modernity and Covenantal Modernity Maybe discussions about how the Republicans can climb back into power as soon as possible are the worng ones to be having. Maybe some kind of more or less left-wing rule, antipathetic towards initative and success, sympathetic to those with even mildly plausible victimary claims, aversive to the use of force or risk taking [...] Continue reading Conservative Rule as Exceptionally Normal and Normally Exceptional I thought I’d give this post-election commentary game another spin. Two things occurred to me: first, that Barack Obama, for a while at least, will be able to do pretty much whatever he wants (and if what he does is well received, that “while” will become quite a while) and we have no idea [...] Continue reading Barack Obama, the Greatest President Ever! Wouldn’t the criterion for actions taken by a new Adminstration, bolstered by a solid Congressional majority, which wants to effect fundamental transformation of the American order without tarnishing the transcendence which has been its real program, be that such changes be as subtle and irreversible as possible? Perhaps (to refer back to my previous [...] Continue reading Subtle and Irreversible One conclusion from the election results that conservatives seem to find comforting is that it still appears as if the U.S. is a “center-right” country. The proof of this lies in polling revealing significantly higher numbers of self-identified “conservatives” over self-identified “liberals,” as well as polling revealing majority support for traditionally “conservative” issues like [...] Continue reading More on the Election from an Originary Thinker First of all, we just received a very valuable lesson in the efficacy of scapegoating: the singleminded hatred of Bush cultivated by the Left over the past 8 years has translated directly into the deification of Barack Obama. That singlemindedness is to be wondered at: there were no guarantees that the robotic effort to [...] Continue reading One Originary Thinker’s Account of the U.S. Election |
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