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Gramsci put it perfectly when he wrote of “Pessimismo dell’intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà.”—pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will (but it sounds so much better In Italian.)

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going on a ramble here but I once found this article about neonazis in Ukraine that had a mystical bent to it. (Ukraine has a Nazi problem, like Russia does, like Germany and the USA; this does not justify the Russian invasion). the article was in some text-heavy place like the Anarchist Library or Indymedia or Blackblogs, but I couldn't find it again. in it, the author postulated (confidently, as fact) this explanation of the Black Sun that wasn't sourced and I haven't seen anywhere else, and I have no idea where it comes from. there is something to that symbol that gives me a chill, whenever I spot it tattoed in some asshole downtown or as far and removed from my life as De Santi's propaganda video. it feels like a flashback of the first time I saw a Nazi rally in person, and suddenly all those old leftist war songs clicked: so this is the enemy. this is what it feels like to have an enemy.

most of Nazi symbology is appropriated, but the Black Sun is their original. it is first seen in a mosaic of a palace-hall, after a restoration by Himmler; Himmler, besides being the major architect of the Shoah and the SS, was a centrepiece in Nazi occultism and the head of its anti-Christian faction. the Sonnenrad seems to be made of twelve S-runes, arranged like a sun; its significance in Himmlerian mysticism is unknown.

that one article explained it this way: if you stare at the sun for too long you go blind, but right before you go blind you see the clear shape of the sun, inverted into a vertiginous darkness, spiraling to burn into your retinas forever. the Black Sun is then the initiation into the "reality" of a fascist worldview—essentially an early version of "taking the red pill". or, seen another way: the point where they can't go back.

the world in collapse is a word of borders, a world where people in charge will increasingly try to find an excuse, any excuse, to justify the unjustifiable—the moral absurdity that is a border. we already see this in Belarus and Gaza and the sea-ditch of Fortress Europe and the US. when whole areas of the Global South become unlivable and the fiction of nations necessitates even higher walls and murder counts, fascism will be ready to offer a way. some people stare into the sun of collapse til they can't see anything but darkness.

as for me, all I can think is that negras tormentas agitan los aires...

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