*alt-right* Alt-, from usenet, e.g., alt.comp.sci. Right, from the division of the political spectrum along "right and left". This to be examined more closely. Right implying the one dimensional spectrum of (Western|parliamentary|liberal democratic) politics alt ~ other than, superimposed. Requires another dimension, but "right" in the name denies that other dimension. Instead, insists on the persistence of the left-right spectrum. [Digression on libertarianism, anarchism...] All these lend themselves to mapping along arbitrary axes: (order|freedom), market (de|)regulation Evocative of "Altreich", another name for the Third Reich. English "old" a cognate and translation of "alt". Reich a cognate of English -ric (e.g. Bishopric), associated with reichen, English cognate "reach". See also reich/rich, Recht/right(law). In an abuse of etymology one might translate: Oldric, the reach of "Time". Not time in the Aristotelean appreciation of all its undermining straightforward ontology, but the cheap myth of Times of Old, mined by chivalric romance, high fantasy, historical drama, fascists. There is no fascism without a mythos of Time. I need another word besides Time. Because it is not the time of philosophy, the concept most rich in aporia, but the "Time" which is always before, the displaced past never subject to the contradictions of conjuncture which plague a present. {Medieval Essays [author?] |49 To them the new religion, like the new capital, was an oriental _parvenu_, fit only for slaves and foreigners. A true Roman, they felt, could not abandon the tmeples and altars which had become doubly sacred from their glorious past.}