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Entry: The Rise of the Post-paleos (a second look) Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_rise_of_the_post_paleos_a_second_look#30730 Post contents: A fascinating look forward. Unfortunately, all the signs point toward a species of re-communalization rather than toward a more refined intellectualism and more verbal fisticuffs as I perceive is meant by "Pos(t)paleos will have to get their hands dirty by continuing to go after their enemies and by doing so in a way that draws public notice." and "...I trust the postpaleos will never hold back from flattening those who claim to be on the right but who can’t resist paying homage to leftist heroes." A vigorously verbal or written assault would be a great thing, but the re-communalization that is going on links the derogatory impulses at National Review and The New Republic with Richard Spencer, Leon Hadar, and Justin Raimondo, namely the division of the population from which the postpaleos are most likely to spring into the "worthy whites" like themselves, and the "rednecks and hillbillies" who are to be denigrated and despised. With that kind of class warfare that is deeply embedded in TakiMag itself, as they are at the opposing NRO and TNR, postpaleos will have a short half-life on the shelf of history. If the postpaleos can teach manners to Spencer, Hadar, and Raimondo, it may be that the intellectual reach of postpaleoism can have an important portion of our nation's intellectual and ideological life. I hope when you make your next list of ideological enemies ("propositional nationhood, antiracism, anti-homophobia, anti-anti-Semitism, and anti-fascism"), it will include "denigration for lower income & less education." It's not particularly offensive to me that the writers here often dip a toe in the fever swamps of name-calling, but it reveals some particularly loathsome habits of mind that cast a taint on their other ideas. Sent at: 2008 12 01