"I've often wondered why the American Right has been so quiet about V.S. Naipaul. He's easily the most talented reactionary writer in the English language- maybe the only living talent in the right-wing zombiesphere. The American Right devotes an insane amount of resources into manufacturing hagiographies on anyone whom they believe makes them look good- even the Soviets couldn't compete with today's American Right when it comes to glorifying their pantheon of degenerate cretins like Ayn Rand, Phyllis Schafly, Friedrich von Hayek...
Basically it comes down to this: The American Right only needs "team players"- shameless, cynical hacks who can be counted on to churn out whatever rank propaganda is ordered up by the Heritage Foundation. For that, you need a Rotary Club nihilist like Dinesh D'Souza, someone totally devoid of a literary ego, intellectual curiousity or a gag reflex...
All of the young reactionary intellectuals I knew when I was younger eventually came around to a similar epiphany. At some point, it just couldn't be ignored: These people were scum; mean, sleazy, boring scum. It became impossible to be near them. They- we- dropped out of the Right, and wanted nothing more to do with it all. But by ruining everything in this country- economically, culturally, intellectually, militarily- the Right essentially chased us wherever we went, poisoning everything they could get their hands on...
Naipaul's career developed at a time when Western reactionary intellectuals could still be formidable, dynamic and unpredictable; there was space carved out on the Right for reactionary talent like Naipaul...
They've replaced the Naipauls with libertarians, the fake, predictable, genetically-modified version of reactionary intellectualism- so insanely corrupt and so profoundly retarded that, like a skunk spraying foul stupidity whenever threatened, libertarianism has successfully scared away anyone with brains and dignity from bothering them while they feed...
What's left today, three decades after Reagan's victory, is a ruling class of Rotary Club nihilists. Right-wing degenerates. And they're not even interesting degenerates anymore, the way some Right-wingers used to be. They just scream a lot. Scream and bang a stick on the ground- and at the end of the stick-banging, they go to pick up their checks from their billionaire sponsors."
-Mark Ames @ The eXiled
