The horror of fascism

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Everyday when I watch television footage of brutalities perpetrated against innocent and helpless human beings all over the world I do often remember the words of Norman Mailer when he rightly posited that one can have Fascism come in any form at all, through the Church, through social welfare, through state conservatism, the FBI, the Pentagon.

Fascism is not a philosophy but a murderous mode of deadening reality by smothering it with lies.

Furthermore, Hannah Arendt states that the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.

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