On the Rise of Tradness (tradcath)

Trad is on the rise and everybody’s becoming either catholic or statist. 

This is the cope of our age, it’s the way that we objectify ourselves in order to shield our psyche from the ailments of the contemporary condition. 

In the vein of LARPing, we are made object, fictional caricatures of ourselves. Despondent - we time travel to a period when history has not ended and the possibility of phallic actualization is readily at hand, whether through blood or glory or the exaltation of god. 

The transmutation of the structures of objective violence that marked the end of the society of discipline, means we cannot make use of these structures as a way to sublimate the emotional distress caused of a violence that is anyway present - meaning there’s nobody left to blame but us, if our predicament has turned to shit - meaning I attribute mental illness, to the unavailability of meaningfully sublimating sex drive.

An example would be to take a fascist or more accurately an ethno-statist regime and compare it against a backdrop of neoliberal leftists: 

Now, the ethno-state will inescapably use the currency of abjection in order to individuate what it will decide to be subject and other.

I’ll take the example of Lovecraft, who takes his own racism back to it’s most essential and profound core, that of fear.

Ethno-statist myth is lovecraftian fiction. 

I’ve comparatively shown Lovecraft’s imagery of Cthulhu side by side with swiss statist imagery, because the Other takes a cosmological proportion in both ideologies. 

Both deal in fear against a cosmic octopus and this fear is almost always mutually inclusive with respect.

Cthulhu is an old god, abstracted and ungraspable by the human mind. 

Xenophobia is similar, constructing a myth of parasitism, vilifying economic consequences and obfuscating the other, removing them from subjective experience, therefore rendering the other - the foreigner, a veiled object - similar to the phallus, it does not exist, yet invokes fear and respect.   

Both lovecraft and the ethnostate deal in abjection.

However, now that there is a lack of the oppressive edifice that we have come to recognize as the Father, or for our intents and purposes, the ethno-state; we are governed by the archetype of the permissive mother, who is latently punitive, and whose punishment is of the symbolic order. 

This is the case for neoliberal leftism, it is a mother that does not deal in abjection, rather it is objectifying the Other by calculating it in terms of economy. (thus functionally unsexing the Other). 

This is most exemplified by the guilt of those in power, whether white guilt or the guilt of the global north.

It is the self-compounding practice of the left which objectifies the marginalized as a way to consolidate it’s own subjectivity and confirm it’s own bias - in itself a form of symbolic violence. 

To live solely in the dimension of economy - rather than the land of gods and monsters, is an unimaginative fate - and a fate that imposes the real Real, as signifier as sole responsibility of the individual. 

This current predicament does not even mean there’s less violence, it just means that it now resides within the symbolic order, or rather it is systemic and obfuscated from subjective experience - meaning we cannot functionally sublimate the harm it causes us. 

The damage of a frontal stab can be assessed more easily than passive slow poisoning.

This poisoning I attribute mostly to the realities we are fed, that are not our own - yet we are still expected to take at face value.

This is why every gen Z-er is embracing tradness, because it’s a more lucrative model of subjective economy that allows them to manufacture a reality of their own, through a maneuvering of language of expression.

Trad aspires to bring back a violence which can be seen and dealt with accordingly, it’s a recession towards traditional values - because in itself it’s a nostalgia of futures that didn’t and will not happen. 

In itself, tradness is a way to introduce a sacred element, or rather a semblance of it - into contemporary life. 

Sacredness is always of sacrificial utility, it is a sacrifice that generates value beyond the economic by rendering an object inaccessible, therefore sublime. 

Tradness aspires to make contact with sublimity in an age where even the sacred has been book-kept.