| Ryan Griffis via nettime-l on Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:27:41 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> At Doge, AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism |
On the last episode of On The Media, Brooke Gladstone spoke with Jennifer Berkshire (co-author of The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual) about the current right-wing attack on all levels of education. While the initial discussion centered on right-wing populist opposition to school voucher programs, it ends up getting into the CN and natalist movements’ ideological reasons for attacking education. Or, more specifically the democratic project that we think of as public education. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-latest-spin-on-signalgate-plus-a-crypto-president-is-born There’s a brief excerpt of a speech by Scott Yenor, a politic philosophy prof at Boise State and affiliate of the CN org Society for American Civic Renewal and the Claremont Institute. This speech he gave a few years ago generated some coverage for obvious reasons: https://youtu.be/CJssyf7D6Q4 At any rate, I only bring this up to throw out there some things that *do* seem to be a point of convergence between the TBs and CNs, which is blatant and celebratory misogyny and heteropatriarchy (and an equally virulent hatred for anything that impedes them celebrating it). I think this is probably more of a current for young white dudes who might fall into CN territory, or just as likely into the TB/right-wing troll camp. Definitely not taking away anything from what Steve has offered, which maps 100% onto my experience growing up in an evangelical environment/household in the US South. I’ve watched, first-hand, the transformation of "values-based” Christian beliefs into nakedly political ones that employ the same moral force. Where I used to be able to appeal to those values in disagreements with family members, such appeals are now met with incredulity, anger, and endless what-about-isms. Take care all. Ryan -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: nettime-l-owner@lists.nettime.org