Interestingly the modern alt-right, which is largely a 21st century post-social-media rebranding of Nazi ideology, has its own very strange occultism:
https://pepethefrogfaith.wordpress.com
https://pepethefrogfaith.wordpress.com/smug-pepe-sure-makes-...
There's a lot more. The rabbit hole goes deep and gets extremely bizarre.
There's also a strong affinity between the alt-right and some of the more bizarre currents of conspiracy theory: the flat Earth movement, Apollo hoax conspiracies, weird alternative theories of history like ancient alien wars, and the absolute wackiest 9/11 conspiracy theories (e.g. controlled demolition with energy weapons from space). You can see this very clearly if you look at overlapping participation and moderation of various Reddit forums and at the similarity of jargon and propaganda.
Historically it seems like totalitarian movements usually employ what we might term "radically anti-rational bullshit" as signaling. The Soviets did it too with Lysenkoism and statistical/mathematical quackery designed to bolster Lenin's theories.
It seems to serve both for social signaling within the movement and as a straightforward ideological stance on the profound and radical rejection of reason.
https://pepethefrogfaith.wordpress.com
https://pepethefrogfaith.wordpress.com/smug-pepe-sure-makes-...
There's a lot more. The rabbit hole goes deep and gets extremely bizarre.
There's also a strong affinity between the alt-right and some of the more bizarre currents of conspiracy theory: the flat Earth movement, Apollo hoax conspiracies, weird alternative theories of history like ancient alien wars, and the absolute wackiest 9/11 conspiracy theories (e.g. controlled demolition with energy weapons from space). You can see this very clearly if you look at overlapping participation and moderation of various Reddit forums and at the similarity of jargon and propaganda.
Historically it seems like totalitarian movements usually employ what we might term "radically anti-rational bullshit" as signaling. The Soviets did it too with Lysenkoism and statistical/mathematical quackery designed to bolster Lenin's theories.
It seems to serve both for social signaling within the movement and as a straightforward ideological stance on the profound and radical rejection of reason.