I have to say I think this conflation of altright and neonazi is lazy in the extreme. By the media and most posters here.
Democratic socialism has overlapping territory with communism but we wouldn't say Sweden == Soviet Union.
> those ideologies have at their core the idea of resisting cultural and civilizational decline. I personally think their scapegoats, theories, and solutions are all BS but they're getting somewhere because they are talking about the problem.
I find the most incisive statements are to be found among the neoreactionaries and technocommericalists, with Thiel's loosely associated Stagnation Hypothesis being compelling to me.
> The angst comes from the secondary implication that the future is not set and magic will not happen and that we are actually going to have to deal with our problems.
He says "we can't sit and wait for the movie of the future to unfold", it's the same idea.
The ray of light there is that it is put forward that our funk is to do with social changes in how we think or past civilizational technical debt. A good example of that thought from Hollywood is Interstellar.
I feel like it used to be the case that "change how we think can change who we are/what happens" used to come from the left but now it's coming from the right. The right looks at past glories and says we must change to get to something better, the left says it is all terrible and we must prevent anything from going wrong which means everything must stay the same.
There's been a weird role reversal of some sort.
> This will continue and will get worse until people get their heads out of the 20th century and start articulating new visions of the future.
I've yet to hear of an example of that from the left, the utopians have lost faith. I've listed some examples in my other post but like I said to people like Stross they likely smell of sulfur.