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On fascism
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fridi"Fascism is what happens when people try to ignore the complications and to make life too easy for themselves. Fascism denies all identities except the national identity and insists that I have obligations only towards my nation."
(Relevant Ted Talk)
Mussolini knew why people followed him. "People are tired of freedom". It really is as simple as that. Making decisions for yourself is hard. Keeping tabs on your politicians is hard. Being told what to do is so much easier. Moreover, you then conveniently have someone to blame for failures. And the general trend toward bigger government, bigger regulations, and against Constitutional rights is the perfect example of this. Little by little, freedoms can get eroded if people don't push back and assert their rights.
In a nutshell, fascism is what happens when people get lazy. And no one is immune to that. No one is immune to brainwashing, it's so easy that it's scary. I hate when people argue with me, but at the same time, I enjoy it. The moment the conflict ceases, is the moment to be scared.
Meanwhile, we're witnessing the resurgence of authoritarianism now, it's gaining momentum around the world, and even scarier, people are getting sold on the idea that it's more convenient to have a strongman taking the decisions for them. They prefer "law and order" to the trouble of having to think for themselves, and all that mess that is democracy. We're now hearing the argument that other than the Holocaust, no one can explain why fascism or national socialism is a bad thing. Ironically, the proponents of this argument are saying we've all just learned to take it as a fact without trying to analyze why it is wrong and evil.
So help me out on this one if you will: could we formulate the reasons that fascism is evil and wrong?
(Relevant Ted Talk)
Mussolini knew why people followed him. "People are tired of freedom". It really is as simple as that. Making decisions for yourself is hard. Keeping tabs on your politicians is hard. Being told what to do is so much easier. Moreover, you then conveniently have someone to blame for failures. And the general trend toward bigger government, bigger regulations, and against Constitutional rights is the perfect example of this. Little by little, freedoms can get eroded if people don't push back and assert their rights.
In a nutshell, fascism is what happens when people get lazy. And no one is immune to that. No one is immune to brainwashing, it's so easy that it's scary. I hate when people argue with me, but at the same time, I enjoy it. The moment the conflict ceases, is the moment to be scared.
Meanwhile, we're witnessing the resurgence of authoritarianism now, it's gaining momentum around the world, and even scarier, people are getting sold on the idea that it's more convenient to have a strongman taking the decisions for them. They prefer "law and order" to the trouble of having to think for themselves, and all that mess that is democracy. We're now hearing the argument that other than the Holocaust, no one can explain why fascism or national socialism is a bad thing. Ironically, the proponents of this argument are saying we've all just learned to take it as a fact without trying to analyze why it is wrong and evil.
So help me out on this one if you will: could we formulate the reasons that fascism is evil and wrong?
