tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post7604165915371091306..comments2024-03-04T22:54:13.447+05:30Comments on Remains of the Day: Why Trump WonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7037385.post-70639674491029861592018-08-05T22:48:59.666+05:302018-08-05T22:48:59.666+05:30Dear Harmanjit,
Great to know you're still wr...Dear Harmanjit,<br /><br />Great to know you're still writing this blog. You do not know me, I don't think we've ever spoken. I was a member of the Dharma Overground when it was going through its actualism-phase.<br /><br />I am a Chinese-American male, 25, my parents are first-generation immigrants to this country, and I also voted for Donald Trump. I first became involved with the seduction community in the spring of 2012, and learned some of its fundamentals. Later on I encountered the “red pill”/manosphere in spring of 2013. I hung around that community for some time, enjoying its social and cultural commentary. I even wrote an article for Return of Kings.<br /><br />In the fall of 2015 I heard that Donald Trump was running, and it immediately occurred to me that he would win. I then said to a few other people that he would win and that he would do a “not-bad” job. Over time I predicted to multiple people that he would win. Finally on election night, a friend texted me: “you were right.”<br /><br />And like you, or James Damore, I paid almost zero attention to policy. I have no knowledge of “real” politics. All I knew was culture, to a lesser-extent I connected these political/cultural wars to ideas found in religions (the Left vs. the Right, falsehood vs. truth, evil vs. good, etc.). I thought it was fairly obvious that the often humorous and rational/logical commentary that came from these Alt-Right people would convert people by the millions or thousands (or whatever), via Twitter, or YouTube, or whatnot.<br /><br />This Left vs. Right meme appears everywhere. Jeremy Griffith addresses it in his writings on the Human Condition (yet <i>another</i> writer from Australia who writes about the Human Condition... patterns?), Muḥammad (ﷺ) spoke about it in his Ḥadīth (“the Antichrist doesn't appear until its people are gathered into two camps: a camp of faith without hypocrisy, and a camp of hypocrisy without faith”, paraphrased), Shīʿīs speak about it, the Hindus <i>definitely</i> speak about it, in fact for the Hindus it appears to be a theme of all the Purāṇas as well as the Mahābhārata, namely the war between the devas and the asuras.<br /><br />Anyways thank you for your commentary, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was something that I would consider to be not-dumb.<br /><br />Jamesbboy Yenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15414967840321139946noreply@blogger.com