Restorative Past fantasy

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Medievalist nationalist fantasy, inheritance as ideology, and the neo-feudal dreams of the tech right

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“Traditional Family Values” and the Labour They Conceal

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The Restorative Past fantasy

The belief that there was once a coherent, pure, morally legible past, and that the present is a fallen copy.

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