{"id":100442,"date":"2026-06-04T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=100442"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:16:06","slug":"sci-fi-and-the-wwii-mythos-part-ii-the-political-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/04\/sci-fi-and-the-wwii-mythos-part-ii-the-political-element\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi and the WWII Mythos Part II : The Political Element"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W0w1gB1hC64?si=WDqILFH1Ycpv07T5\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 16 Jan 2026<\/p>\n<p>Last time I was focused on cultural aspects, but what about the direct political manifestations today? Is there a resurgence of neo-nazi attitudes or is just an artifact of the ubiquity of digital media preserving everything? Why might those ideas resonate with the young, and how does it fit with my argument that the old myths are breaking down? <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:42 Right, Left, and Gen-Z<br \/>\n02:56 Patterns of Force<br \/>\n04:25 Rambling about Economics<br \/>\n05:48 Efficient? No.<br \/>\n06:39 Bifurcation<br \/>\n08:00 Loss of Perspective<\/p>\n<p>This one is a direct result of a conversation on the <em>Talking History<\/em> program on KSMU (I\u2019ll link the episode when goes up) and covers something that came up but wasn&#8217;t really addressed well.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<br \/>\nStill plugging <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 16 Jan 2026 Last time I was focused on cultural aspects, but what about the direct political manifestations today? Is there a resurgence of neo-nazi attitudes or is just an artifact of the ubiquity of digital media preserving everything? Why might those ideas resonate with the young, and how does it fit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,28,53,13],"tags":[457,1593,1106,720,85,223,101],"class_list":["post-100442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-fascism","tag-feralhistorian","tag-genz","tag-protest","tag-sf","tag-startrek","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-q82","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102834,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100442\/revisions\/102834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}