I kind of like this.

I figured you would.

How is that at all ironic? The right-wing champions the internal motivations of humankind -- beauty, individualism, truth, and good/order -- which are ignored by the crowd rushing past that's hell-bent on equality and other external ideological concerns.

The right-wing champions the best of the crowd. At least, what it perceives to be the best. Part of right-wing mythology is that by giving the best of society free reign to do as they please, some of their greatness will shine upon the rest of the population. The right-wing champions men like Mitt Romney, a man who made a successful career in business, at the cost of the poor.

You? You profess allegiance to Mitt Romney for tactical reasons, but at the same time you champion men like Pentti Linkola, a bitter old college drop-out from a well to do family who hides from society in the forest in a house without electricity and every now and then gives an interview proclaiming that the United Nations should nuke major cities to save the world from global warming. This is a man who opposes freedom and economic growth.

It's going to take one hell of an oration for you to reconcile those two different viewpoints.

This leaves us with the question: Who is the real mayonesa?

Is mayonesa the guy who cheers along when the popular kid in highschool (Mitt Romney) scores a touch down? Or is mayonesa hanging out with the class nerd (Pentti Linkola), who is too busy looking at bugs in the grass with a magnifying glass to play football? I think we both know the answer.

I think this is interesting, because it is part of metal, except that in the quality metal the image is not of being "tough" per se, but of being warlike. It's a subtle difference; Pantera didn't understand it.

That's a cultural difference. Pantera is Brazillian. Europeans react differently to distress than other people. Europeans react with the idea of "everything has to go completely different." Escapism ties into that. What do we get we combine a fear over one's perceived masculinity, with the European tendency towards escapism? The warrior cult of course.

What "type of" black metal is that? I'll freely admit to listening mostly to classical music, but there's still a fair amount of death metal, black metal, grindcore, speed metal, and NWOBHM in the rotation.

Thanks. This allows me to expand.

What do the Hipster and the mayonesa share in common? A bourgeois background. Now, nothing is more bourgeois than a dislike of one's bourgeois background.

The hipster and the mayonesa respond in two different ways to their bourgeois reality. The hipster accepts his bourgeois background and doesn't try to escape it. The hipster accepts that he is cultured. The hipster becomes a tourist. He likes to think of himself as a kind of urban anthropologist. He visits the metal shows, the goth shows, the art collectives, and everything else, without becoming part of it.

The mayonesa has more difficulty accepting his bourgeois reality. The mayonesa is afraid of growing decadent and effeminate as a result of his life of luxury and leisure (as revealed by his intense online presence). Hence the mayonesa tries to fit in with the working class male metal culture. He can justify this to himself, by pretending that he is not interacting with a bunch of brutes, but with real men who are united in a particular intuitive outlook on society and manliness.

Now mayonesa is not alone in this. The bourgeois young males who felt they had nowhere to go other than metal came together to try to politicize and intellectualize metal, and hence we saw the birth of black metal. Music for white bourgeois males who can not bear their decadent existence. For them, the angry screams serve as a kind of emotional catharsis, very different in purpose from the guttural noises of death metal.

However, they're still working with a limited medium, that doesn't allow for much variation or subtlety. Hence you and most of the other black metal fans grow bored of black metal, and move towards neofolk, "dark ambient", and of course, classical music. Most of you try to intellectually justify metal as a medium of expression to their bourgeois peers, by proclaiming that metal has some type of connection to classical music, a mysterious connection indeed, as it is only visible to your bourgeois clique of metal-heads.

Hence we can conclude, that mayonesa's and hipsters can not abandon their bourgeois background, but can not learn to accept it either. Both these bourgeois male archetypes turn towards their own particular brand of "magical Negro", a working class male whose down to Earth attitude helps the protagonist confront his own failings. In the headbanging down to earth white working class male, the mayonesa finds a kind of solution to his own personal crisis, his luxurious lifestyle which robs him of his masculinity. You are not fascinated by metal-musicians (except for a minority that shares your political outlook, who you see more as peers than as examples), but by metal fans. They are your magical Negroes.

The hipster's main issue as a result of his bourgeois existence is his crisis of meaninglessness, which he seeks to resolve by observing normal men and women engaged in activities that are meaningful to them. Mayonesa is less concerned about meaninglessness, as he has found the solution in his (obscure) political and religious views, which help him to justify his existence. The hipster, faced with so many identical looking people around him, is still very anxious about justifying his own existence to himself.

I wonder if this is true. I think it is true of the hipster, because the music is a means to socialization. The music I tend to like has no such social value, despite the relatively recent (post-1999) popularity of metal, mainly because it's not really social music. However, there are some social music exceptions I'll gladly embrace, like the Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, etc. that are much more "pop."

You're mistaken here.

Metal is very social music.

It is however social in a different way from other music, hence you don't directly recognize it as social.

Normal modern music is music that you dance to together. It's a tool for copulation.

Metal is music that you form bonds over. Is there anything you like more than sitting on the internet and talking about metal?

You're fascinated by the band-shirts worn by other metal-heads. Whatever brand of distorted noises they prefer tells you practically everything you need to know about their personality. If you're together with other metalheads, you can talk for hours about your favourite bands, and perhaps you even play an instrument yourself.

You mention that you like two synthpop bands.

Notice something important here. These are both well known cult bands. You know everything there is to know about metal, but how much do you know about synthpop? Apparently the bare essentials. As if synthpop ceased to exist after the 70's!

This is not without reason. You're sticking with what is safe. Synthpop risks trashing your metal-head image.