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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: pocotrader who wrote (306343)10/14/2024 9:55:27 AM
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I have to admit, Monty Python formed my world outlook from an early, impressionable age. Laugh In was the gateway drug. MP was the hard stuff.

A lovely book by one of my favorite authors is A World In Between by Norman Spinrad. Now nearly half a century ago, Spinrad thought he was writing a novel about a world, dominated by a media culture that we can recognize now and was a proxy for California named Pacifica, that becomes a media battleground between two almost cartoonishly extreme forces. A MuskWorld with its ultra-macho, fascist, thinly veiled closeted techno bro culture battles a Femi-nazi dominated Earth out of Limbaugh's most fevered dreams. Hilarity ensues. Especially when the MuskWorlders try to hook up with the flamboyantly lumberjack culture of Pacifica. Our incel bro reminds me of the MuskWorlders from the novel, although with less self-awareness about the homosexual overtones of the belief system.

I am sure Spinrad found the dueling stereotypes to be amusing and edgy. While the Femi-nazis never really appeared except in wingnut fantasies, the techno bro did with scary accuracy. Especially in light of how counter-cultural the computer hobbyists were at the time.
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