• https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

    It comes from Red Sails, who may have the author we might not always agree with (Roderic Day), but I think he’s good with the subject.

    Related to this, I think there’s also an article of a similar sentiment and thesis, though not from the same publisher and author, “The Demiurge doesn’t exist”

    Historicization shows that all things have an explanation, a beginning and an end, whereas fetishization presents them as opaque and eternal. In other words, historicization is a kind of centering that is a partisan of intelligibility and change, whereas fetishization invisibilizes both.