A balanced riposte to a 2024 essay titled David Myatt’s Imagined Emotionology, his Striving for Authentic Aryan Emotional Communities, and the Dishonourable Wulstan Tedder, by academic Clive Henry who applies various fairly recently developed categories, causal abstractions, to describe Myatt and the idea of a rural racially-based homeland which Myatt wrote about toward the end of his three decades (1968-1998) as a neo-nazi activist and National Socialist ideologue. These categories include: (i) Barbara Rosenwein’s notion of emotional communities; (ii) William Redd’s concept of emotional management; and (iii) Sara Ahmed’s notion of emotional hardness.
In the matter of the causal abstractions it is our view that, when applied to human beings, they are or they can be dehumanizing since the person or persons so categorized is or are judged according to the moral criterion or criteria assigned to, or assumed to be associated with, a particular category. In addition, Clive Henry not only repeats many rumours, made by academics and others, about Myatt but provides no evidence from primary sources.
The Imagined Emotionology Of Mr Henry
Image Credit: A photograph of David Myatt with members of Column 88 taken in the 1970s. Myatt, with mustache, is on the bottom left. Column 88 (C88) was a 1970s to mid-1980s National Socialist paramilitary group and was rumored to be the British section of the NATO ‘stay behind’ Gladio network trained and equipped during the Cold War to conduct sabotage in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. The Runic (Odal, Othala, Homeland) patch on the uniform was the insignia of C88, and was previously used by the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen.
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