Eric Hoffer Ignored

I am perplexed and annoyed that the readership of 20th century iconoclast and American philosopher, Eric Hoffer seems to have lapsed, receding into obscurity and forgotten status. I could be wrong, but Hoffer seems forgotten in comparison to other thinkers.

I have no formal statistical measurement of this--a measurable, scientific analysis of current readership and popularity enjoyed or lost by a thinker like Hoffer, but I follow online, You-tube videos for Max Stirner and Jordan Peterson, both of whom enjoy a wide following and viewership, but not so much for Hoffer.

Hoffer is misunderstood and unappreciated. I believe that Mavellonialism is a fitting philosophy, religious outlook and ethical basis for self-realizing as an individuating anarchist in this 21st century. I believe that Hoffer is a proto-Mavellonialist, and that people sense this on some level, and that is why they avoid reading him or talking about him online. His Mavellonialist implications do not align with the postmodernist, jive metanarrative promulgated by Leftists and statists.

Why is Hoffer out of style?

1. Too many thinkers are faddish, groupist followers and lackeys, remaining unquestioningly faithful and deferential to the popular intellectual leaders of their generation. It would be uncool and socially injurious to their standing with the in-crowd to do the unorthodox, and read and cite thinkers like Hoffer, disregarded or banned by the maintainers of the politically correct canon of works now allowed to be read.

2. Few or none, even the retainers of his papers and journals at the Hoover Institute, really understand Hoffer--which direction that we are to head for through his prophetic and provocative suggestions.

3. Many in Academia actually to get what he is about--that he was a brilliant conservative thinker. They are repelled by his conservative stances, and therefore do not teach his books to their students for he strongly detracts from their plot to brainwash and indoctrinate a whole generation of students into true believing and serving their poststructuralist and Marxist ideology.

These academics likely do not appreciate how radically conservative that Hoffer is--especially in regards to Mavellonialist conservatism.

Mavellonialism is the religion of humans as self-actualizing, living angels serving the Mother and Father while here on earth, as anarchist-individuators and supercitizens promoting the values of moderate, capitalist, individualistic America and the West.

Hoffer, in his newspaper editorials from the late 1960s,  exhorted the middle class to fight back hard, resolutelym  never apologizing to statists, Leninists, nihilists, and revolutionaries dedicated to wiping our the American and Western ways of life.

Hoffer promoted strong, bourgeois, masuline owners and workers, militant, masculine, virile promoters of individualism, patriotism, capitalism and democracy.

4. There is a fourth possibility. It could be that Hoffer is ignored, and is being forgotten because his radically conservative message has actually been understood, heeded and incorporated into the current conservative movement. His clarion warning against the danger of intellectuals running things here for the first time is a theme that now resonates with many of the common people. They believe what Hoffer was preaching 50 years ago, and they are using his suggestions to back Trump, to make America great again, to preserve liberty, capitalism, enforced borders, our sovereignty as a nation and people, to restore our constitutional republic.

What requires attention is his prophetic anticipation of the benefits and answers available to mass America under Mavellonialism, a grassroots reform of real and lasting consequence.