Just finished Gilad Atzmon's book "Being in Time: a post-politcal manifesto". It's very short, but essential IMO to understand what's going on particularly when it comes to today's culture war and identity politics. Although I don't think Atzmon hits the mark on every target, it reads like a crucial missing chapter of Guyénot's book, the second half of the book being particularly enlightening.
Here are a few things that stood out for me. First, there is a crucial link between neo-Marxism and postmodernism that Jordan Peterson and the like seem to miss (perhaps because JP has a blind spot when it comes to the psychoanalysts and because tackling cultural Marxism for real inevitably leads to dangerous thoughts about the role of Jews and Jewish culture in all of this). Peterson rightly says that identity politics/postmodernism is an attempt to find new oppressed groups after Marxism had failed. But that is not the whole story, or even the most important aspect. Thing is: cultural Marxism/neo-Marxism is a mix between Marx and Freud, advanced primarily by the lunatic Wilhelm Reich and the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Marcuse etc.). They saw that the proletariat had no intention joining the Marxists but preferred fascism, nationalism, conservatism etc. They explained it in Freudian terms: those workers were controlled by the evil patriarchy by means of culture, the repression of sexuality in particular. Hence the goal became to "liberate" them, i.e. sexual liberation and the dismantling of the patriarchal culture. Once liberated, they would bring the revolution about. This is at the root of all that followed - identity politics, political correctness etc. In the postmodernism thread, we already talked about the huge role psychoanalysis played in the genesis of postmodernism/neo-Marxism, but once you see it spelled out by Atzmon, it's like "duh". And of course, this was largely a Jewish operation.
Which brings us to another of Atzmon's crucial insights: how Jews, quite naturally and without needing any conspiracies, dominate both the mainstream discourse and form "controlled oppositions". It all boils down to a tribal instinct, i.e. "what's good for the tribe". It goes like this: you have a Jewish "mainstream" discourse, for example unwavering Zionism. Then what he terms a "satellite" Jewish discourse emerges, i.e. a critique of Zionism. This critique is motivated by a genuine realization on the part of the "critical Jews", but also by the instinct that such ideas as Zionism will reflect badly on the Jews and are therefore dangerous for the tribe. But this makes the "goyim" disengage from the discourse and makes the whole thing an inter-Jewish quibble. So the goyim "leave it to the Jews", which neutralizes any critical examination of the "Jewish question". The same goes for all the other oppositions, like alt-right vs. progressives, capitalists vs. Marxists and so on.
According to Atzmon, as racist and cruel Talmudic Judaism as a religion is, it isn't at the root of the problem, but rather just another manifestation of tribalism and "chosenness". He rightly points out that many (if not most) Jews are secular and hardly know anything about Judaism. But their tribalism and "chosenness syndrome" compulsory drives them towards the invention of all kinds of "chosenness" religions. Atzmon lists some of them in a pretty funny way (later in the book he goes into more detail) - it's the bold parts (sorry for the sloppy scan):
I think we can learn some crucial lessons from all of this. For example, the feeling of "being special" or "chosen" is the arch-enemy of spiritual progress. We absolutely need to be on guard about this. The Cs emphasized this many times as well I think. We are not "special" or "chosen" in any way. This very thought makes us blind towards reality and other people. It's a huge trap.
Also, I think it's not enough to "identify a threat", i.e. "the Jews", or consider the whole thing a vast conspiracy. It Isn't. Instead, it's absolutely essential to go into the nitty-gritty of how all this works psychologically, of how all of this unfolds on a human level. Why? Because I think all of this follows "higher patterns". By this I mean that I'm sure exactly the same dynamics played out in history again and again. In unknown ancient civilizations like Atlantis, I'm sure the same things went down. Maybe it was different groups, different political questions, different circumstances, technologies etc., but the basic dynamics were there. The same is probably true for other 3D STS planets and other parallel dimensions and what have you. If we don't understand in detail how all of this plays out, we are bound to repeat these lessons in other lives.
I think these 3 books do a darn good job:
Laurent Guyénot, "From Yahweh to Zion"
Israel Shahak, "Jewish Religion, Jewish History"
Gilad Atzmon, "Being in Time"