My online activities have decreased significantly, because I stopped frequenting the sites I used to. The reason, I consider them to be vectors of anglo-thought. But what is anglo-thought? This is the term that I use to express what I identify as a system of thoughts, ideas, and assumptions that I often see expressed in these sites and that characterize the underlying thought processes of the "global north".
But perhaps a better way to refer to them is as vectors of fascism. These sites are best known as the online hives of the alt-right. It wasn't always like that, though, and I've been witness to the gradual evolution from relatively innocuous sites of anonymous discussion to outright fascist propaganda vehicles ---long before twitter assumed that role on the mainstream internet.
By now I have already introduced a few terms that all seem to overlap to some extent, as well as being all ill-defined. I mentioned anglo-thought, fascism, the alt-right and I often talk about euro-imperialism. Since I refer to these in my indagations on the state of the world, I would do well to more or less elucidate what these terms mean, and to distinguish them from one another. What follows then, is an attempt at unraveling these concepts as well as some others and at connecting them to larger issues. Again, this is all my point of view, from a position of incomplete information.
These last few years, the word "fascism" has been so abused that it has been hollowed out of it's meaning, much like the word "freedom" (though, as I'll argue in another post, "freedom" has always been a poisoned dart). It has been famously pointed out that, at least according to people online, "everything is fascism". But to go in the opposite direction, and to get pedantic about it, to the point that nothing is fascism except for Mussollini's Italy, is equally dangerous. When we talk about fascism we don't mean a specific form of statecraft, such as a tight coupling of state and capitalist interests, as may have occurred in that specific time. Like the boy who cried fascism, we have been so busy decrying it everywhere and denying it, and now it has established itself at the heart of the empire ---just as it collapses, which, as it turns out, was entirely predictable.
A little digression. Looking at the alt-right propaganda during the past years, the kind that I found most amusing is the masquerade that the outright nazis of the bunch adopted, that of trying to appear as civilized people arguing "in good faith", I mean posts that say something like this: "I think National Socialism is a very interesting and very misunderstood political system", and so on. Reminds me of Frieren (an anime that I've been watching recently): demons are monsters that use human speech in order to deceive humans so that they may kill them and eat them. Am I being too salty? Look at the United States in 2026. Look at it's foreign and domestic policies.
But what is fascism, then? It may mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Here is an example. I was looking at a couple of famous youtubers from the mexican left having a conversation in one of their videos, and they had this little exchange: "What do you think of someone who calls everything they don't like 'communism'?" To which the other replied "Of course, fascists". This is what happens when you don't use words in their correct meaning. The word "communism", in it's derogatory sense, is a code word for "not favouring the interests of the anglo-american empire". The point I am trying to make is the misuse of the word fascism everywhere. While fascism overlaps with anglo-american imperialism, they are two different things.
I've been writing a lot of stuff that I had scattered in my mind, and I have yet to actually explain what I mean by fascism, as well as anglo-thought.
Let's begin with a preliminary definition, which encapsulates quite well one of the most important aspects of the idea:
Fascism is mass support for a power-hungry lunatic.
Emphasis on the word "lunatic". People in fascist countries flock to narcissistic lunatics like flies to the shit. It seems to be the constant in fascist regimes. There are other totalitarian regimes, but fascism per se seems to adore these kinds of flamboyant ill-manered and nasty characters. This makes the alt-right, almost by definition, fascist. Something that would surprise nobody as of 2026.
There is actually quite some sense behind this. It's not hard to see how a people in hardship would (and do, and if you live in the US you will know this better than anyone in this planet (unless you're argentinian :^)) support someone who seems to externalize their rage and their demolitionist rethoric. So it is a crucial factor the part of _mass adoption_, for fascism seems to be a characteristic of... you guessed it, "democratic" systems! I have already made my argument elsewhere that the system of "liberal democracy", which I call pseudo-democracy, is actually not very democratic at all. I will go one step-further in pointing out that these pseudo-democracies facilitate the emergence of fascism, and this is also not by accident, but by design. It has to do with european imperialism and financierist capitalism, BY THE WAY. By having citizens give up their political power to a single personality who needs only to win a mass popularity contest, in which the mechanisms of vote are all but transparent, in a time of political crisis or instability, the recipe is made for a system that will eventually end up in fascism. Thus I will use the term proto-fascism inexchangibly with pseudo-democracy. And this is by no means something new, a modern development, the prototype for proto-fascism is famously historical, the whole edifice of anglo-american politics is modelled in the roman republic, which famously ended up with the centralization of power by one Julius Caesar. Surely, I am not the only one to notice the similarities between him and the ignominious orange emperor.¹
As I said, I fled away from mainstream discussion sites, even the "nicer" ones because I perceive them as vectors of anglo-thought. I distinguish anglo-thought from fascism or the alt-right because the latter are but an extreme expression of the former.
And what is anglo-thought, then? In a way, it's a bit difficult to delineate well, especially since it builds on a more systematic set of ideas that are characteristic of euro-imperialism in general. I would say that anglo-thought is more or less euro-imperialist thought furnished with newtonian and darwinist paradigms. I particularly choose these names because the people after whom I name them were Englishmen, that is, anglos.
Unraveling what is euro-imperialism is a big task, one better left to another post, where I will have more room to elaborate. For now, my dear and nonexistent reader will have to do a little exercise in pre-AI reading and __think for yourself__, I have given enough hints for you to make a good guess as what I consider euro-imperialist thought to be.
Let's instead stop to consider what makes anglo-thought a separate form of euro-imperialism. England was the source of what we call the Industrial Revolution. Newtonian thought is a consequence of that development. Though I single out Newton just to make the argument for what I chose to call "anglo-thought", I should call out the Galileo-Newton-Descartes trio as the ones that lay the fundamentals of the philosophy of science that has usurped the ontology that drives everything that has happened ever since. But there is a reason for citing Newton specifically, beyond merely being an anglo. Being a citizen of the fountainhead of industrialization, the mechanical view of the world that he ultimately came to represent is precisely that part of the ontology of science that has a particular influence on the development of anglo thought.
It is actually the topic of another post, entitled "Against Science", which is in the making, that elaborates on all of this. For now, suffice to say that the view of nature as composed of independent, "free" particles mindlessly bouncing against each other according to mathematical laws, that plays a crucial role in what I call anglo-thought.
As for Darwin (and Malthus right along with him), their influence is quite clear, and it draws precisely from the underlying notion of independent elements acting on their own according to mechanical laws. It is the paradigm of the "rational self-interest" which plagues today's social interactions, and even the already obsolete, yet still widely held, idea of nature as a fierce competition of independent organisms vying for their own personal advantage --to the detriment of the rest of the world. As I will argue in another post, "Against Freedom", the idea of freedom is right at the core of these ideas.
I won't elaborate on that because I have already promised two, no, three essays where I will further unravel all these ideas, a delicate task that I am not sure I will be capable of, but which still needs to be done.
I will just close with a couple strands of anglo-thought that find their more extreme expression in the alt-right. I already said that the alt-right is fascist. It is also very openly euro-imperialist. Precisely, one of the characteristics of these three is best characterised by a very amusing post that I saw once on an alt-right hive. It goes something like this (and after having made an argument for Nietzsche's "ubermensch"):
What you have to do [to improve yourself] is read, read all of the classics, the philosophy and great literature, but only those of the West. Do not read the junk produced by the chinks, arabs, japs [...], that is all worthless garbage... Just the Westerns ...
Not the exact words, but the exact sentiment. The use of slurs to refer to other cultures was actually there, I reproduced it precisely to note the characteristic tone of these peoples. The flaws in it are obvious... though perhaps an anglo might not spot them. First of all, it has to do with the delineation of a "Western" culture that is somehow distinct from world culture, and the failure to acknowledge the great debt of the "West" to the arab science and the Chinese inventions that made "modernity" at all possible. But I am sure that my reader (and of this I am sure, because they are a product of my imagination) is educated and well-read enough to see right through the holes of an alt-right argument.
Second, this is a big characteristic of euro-imperialist thought. While Europeans have been kind enough to grant some of the greater cultures of the "old world" with the status of "civilization", they still have arrogated themselves as the ones who came to "civilize" the planet, considering, always and without exception, those peoples whom they've pillaged nothing but savages, and their, often millenary traditions of thought as mere superstition. A good example of this, perhaps, is the denial of the distinction of the word "philosophy" to anything that doesn't belong to the tradition that "begins" with the thinkers of ancient greece.
And this, my friend, is the reason that I speak so disparagingly of euro-imperialism, of anglo-thought, and why I can't help but feel pleased at the ongoing collapse of the anglo-american empire and it's quite natural and expected evolution into fascism. I did mention that this is by design, by the way, but I have already dumped a lot in this post, so I'll have to make a possibly empty promise to explain why I think pseudo-democracies are designed to be proto-fascist and to perpetuate european imperialism. Though in fact, I have given enough information for you to now go ahead and __think for yourself__. You don't have to agree with me, but you can figure out more or less the direction of my line of thought.
And if you're an imperial citizen suffering from the fascist regime that you have made possible, perhaps I have offended you with my characterization of your whole education. Let me rephrase, hopefully I have offended you, as hundreds and hundreds of your fellow westerners have not only offended, but have for centuries, and continue to, pillage the resources of the global south, imposed their self-percevided superiority and that of their institutions, and generally have made the world a much worse place than it already was.
Cheers.
¹ also known as the stinky pedophile