Introduction When I started this book, it was fun. An opportunity to connect some philosophical ideas I’d been playing with, using some very silly right-wing nutjobs who were nevertheless kind of interesting in a pathological way. The book came in a joyful burst of late-night writing sessions, holed up in a candle-lit room tapping away on my laptop, letting it all pour out of some strange and liminal space I still don’t entirely understand. This is not the first book on the alt-right to come out, although the main essay was finished in May of 2016 and distributed to Then everything went to shit, and suddenly a book about far-right nutjobs stopped being quite as much fun and became somewhat more important. But the bulk of books (and articles) on the matter so far have focused on two questions that I admit to finding relatively uninteresting. The first is how the alt-right came to happen. It’s possible to write intelligently on this topic as a matter of history-David Neiwert’s Alt-America does an excellent job of tracing the precise evolution of the far-right from the mid-90s to the present day, for instance. #Gay pride meme neoreactionary software.
