On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Lee Corbin <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Talk about mixed currents! It's as though the European coordinate system<br>> has been rotated 45 degrees from the American one.<br>
> <br>> And, oh yes, the Nouvelle Droite throughout Europe does not hesitate<br>> to call into question "market practices", evidently. (Actually, I feel like<br>> apologizing for my ignorance, but I just wrote an email to someone<br>
> telling them never to do that!)<br><br>All in all, what you say is basically correct. On the other hand, the French environment that is now known as the Nouvelle Droite has unfortunately picked up along the way many themes and attitudes that belong to the worst kind of neoluddite and technophobic New Left. <br>
<br>Therefore, they may well have emphatically avoided being neocons or authoritarians or nazis, but at the same time have ended up being unpleasantly close to Mr. Rifkin's or Mr. Næss's ideas. In fact, many intellectuals who used to belong to that area and were closer, often ante litteram, to transhumanist ideas, such as Yves Christen (<a href="http://www.amazon.fr/ann%C3%A9es-Faust-science-face-vieillissement/dp/2710704706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204405925&sr=1-1"><span class="srTitle">Les années Faust, ou, La science face au vieillissement</span></a>) or Charles Champetier (<a href="http://www.lesmutants.com">http://www.lesmutants.com</a>), simply left quite soon when the GRECE turned conservative and at the same time turned mostly its back to science and technology along "gauchiste" refrains.<br>
<br>Stefano Vaj<br>