PHILOSOPHY FOR THE PEOPLE EP. 104: WHY DO CHUDS LOVE FANTASY?

Fantasy has been tied up in the right from the start, in the LOTR we see a Catholic Spenglerian world in constant decline from the days of yore, with the desire to innovate and the Faustian impulse seen as the essence of evil. It's a nostalgic backwards looking genre, and it's enduring popularity on the right is hardly a surprise, as we can see in the naming of various flashy new corporations of the evil empire. Fantasy has now largely gone woke, as essentially all fiction has, but right wing fandoms of liberal works of fantasy are also very common. Stefan, Kuba and Quinn discuss this and more. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497 Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll... Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro... Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/ Read Jason in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/rainbow-and-machine