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2000s America was a big reaction to Bush and the moral majority. Religion = bad. New Atheism was the rage. So was political incorrectness and eginess so go figure. So it makes sense people would like existentialists. Death of God, finding meaning in the absurd, etc. Makes sense. After Obama won we got the Tea Party, which morphed into the MAGA movement. The old moral majority died and the remnants went full Joker mode. So we got Yarvin and Land and Dugin, edgy accelerationism esotericism and neo-traditionalism. People went back to Evola, and then they went back to Guenon, and then they figured it was better to be tradcath, tradortho, or go back to Buddhism and Hinduism even. I don't think /lit/ really shits on Nietzsche or Camus or Hume those are just bait threads. Lots of other threads still simp for them. Sartre is really weirdly and unfairly hated on though, to the same level as Bertrand Russell. Shows that people here just go off vibes and don't extensively read what they like OR hate before making up their own mind.
>Are we just running backwards through history fueled by sheer contrarinism?
We're going to have the Frankfurt circle and Foucault fully redeemed, esoteric trad readings of Mormonism, and a new energetic push for niche analytic philosophy, by the next decade at this rate.