Take care Platt,
this article I'm going to translate (just some excerpts) is from the site of "Forza Nuova", a famous neo-fascist Italian group.
(if someone is interested to the original Italian text: http://www.forzanuova.org/articolod.htm )
The title of the article is "Art for Strong People"
Analysing the current situation of literature:
« Bookshelves are full of neo-existentialist books, written by authors who had suffered a lot; televisions broadcast continuously stories of "poor freaks"; handicap is "a-la-page" and pervades everything, so that seemingly normal people are a minority. And we see these normal losers, without an own original culture, full of tattoos and piercing, trying all the possible experiences life can offer; all equal with their no-limits sports, their homosexuality practiced as hobby..... »
The article goes on a bit lamenting this degenerated world and then asks:
« Is there a poetry for strong people? Surely once existed... In the classic world, the Homeric hero pursued an ideal of beauty and excellence, "Kalos kagathos" (beautiful and good), or, as the Romans used to say, “mens sana in corpore sano” .... »
Among the modern examples of this possible poetry for strong, tough people, there is this interesting suggestion:
« One possible idea has been offered by Robert Pirsig in his "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", in which he supports a sort of "Total Quality", restoring the classic concept of art and of the homeric “living good”..... »
As you see, even Pirsig has been taken as example by fascists. Now you can draw your own conclusion.
Ciao,
Marco
p.s.
Please note I stumbled across that site few months ago searching for “Pirsig” and "Art" on the Italian version of Google.
> Hi All:
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> Several contributors have seen fit to quote Noam Chomsky to support
> their views, crediting him with an unbiased and truthful view of world
> affairs. So it may come as a surprise that Chomsky is praised by the
> British Fascist Party. On their website the following appears:
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> "Avram Noam Chomsky may appear to be somewhat of an anomaly
> amongst intellectuals for not only is he a Jew but also an outspoken
> critic of Israel and a defender of historical revisionism. Attacked by
> Zionists for being a 'neo-nazi', this Jewish academic bravely defended
> Professor Robert Faurisson, best known for his questioning of the
> Jewish Holocaust. In a response to a claim that Faurisson is anti-
> Semitic by dint of his questioning of the Holocaust, Chomsky said, "I
> see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas
> chambers or even denial of the Holocaust. Nor would there be anti-
> Semitic implications, per se, in the claim that the Holocaust (whether
> one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously so, by
> apologists for Israeli repression and violence. I see no hint of anti-
> Semitic implications in Faurisson's work.)"
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> The complete approbation can be found at:
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> http://www.oswaldmosley.com/people/chomsky.html
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> Readers can draw their own conclusions.
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