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Ur-Fascism the zombie hydra from the age of heros
Ur-Fascism
I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism.
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Here are some indicators that you,
or someone you care about,
or someone you might just hate a little bit ,
may have been captured:
- cult of tradition
- appeal to a frustrated middle class
- rejection of modernism
- action for action's sake
- disagreement is treason
- fear of difference
- obsession with a plot
- enemies are portrayed as both too strong and too weak
- pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
- contempt for the weak
- everybody is educated to become a hero
- machismo via weapons
- selective populism
- use of an impoverished vocabulary




Well that's eerily prescient. On the other hand, it does seem fairly obvious. I guess we're in the age of internet populism.
Yep. I reckon we are now well into Internet Populism or Social Media Mainstreaming or some catchy label. I also think we are learning our lessons hard and loud.
The validity of any popular "group" is also now questionable , remorselessly. So um I guess valid evidence based ideas and methods will survive and grow over time ... If they are defended.
Otherwise the field is vacated and the "fascists" will claim the conversation and authority with traditional simple negative messages and FUD.
Well that seems to be roughly, the present model in any case.
I figure we just outlast the bastards, by actually having discussions, and not feeding the troll beasts :) (And I stick my fingers in my ears a lot !)