To best decipher exactly how well-planned every seemingly unrelated, but constant chain of chaotic inducing event is in relation to the endgame, search “ Aldous Huxley/Mike Wallace Interview 195&”. Prepare to be absolutely stunned. He was so inexplicably prescient. So exact, it makes one wonder whether he was an actual prophet or as a friend described him, a “ Time traveler who came back from the future to warn us that we must stop it before it is too late.”
Yours are among the most insightful, well researched and beautifully written commentaries available online. If we existed in an era of even semi-sentience, your contributions would be required reading in the education curriculum.
The ironic projection of fascists labeling those who aren’t a symbiosis of corporate multinational monopolistic megalomaniacs seeking global control is stunning.
Anybody standing against the leviathan is an “ extreme right wing fascist Hitler cutout”. Never mind Nazism was a socialist movement , like political Islam and Communism, with the goal of ruling the world.By any means necessary to achieve their endgame.
How fascist has the UN/WEF/WHO owned West become? The Merriam-Webster dictionary used to define Fascism as the merger of government/bureaucracy/ corporate to deploy authoritarian top down control of the populace.
And then Merriam-Webster was purchased by a corporation and the “ government/corporate merger” was removed from the definition.
They also use Cloward and Piven's strategy, then Saul Alinsky's "Rules for radicals". These t actics and strategies were taken up by the Clinton and Obama Chicago school in crafting their left wing takever of American politics, within the willing Democrat party.
In the old days, we had a very real Communist Soviet Union where unhinged leftitsts could p*ss off to and never be seen again. Now the annoying ticks infest every TV station, every newspaper and every corner of the public sector and government. These are only places they can get a salary, they couldn't earn a cent making cars, iphones or anything useful. The Marxist-Islamist explosion is coming.
Mrs. Bucket you are right about the infestations of the neo cons ,however one good thing they should be given credit for is ,they don't make the darn EVS .and the ipots or smart phones ,scrambling the brains of users with electro magnetic magnetism fog .
Hmmm....I drove a Tesla for seven years and strangely have not become a mush for brains prog. Nor has phone use dampened my intellectual acuity; which has been objectionally measured. I think maybe the brain rot is coming from elsewhere.
You'd have to search far and wide to find an example of a less grateful refugee than Herbert Marcuse.
America rescued him and his family from the Nazi inferno, set him up in sunny California, made him rich and famous, and yet he never stopped denouncing the country and its people—he even said ridiculous things like America was less free than the Soviet Union because consumerism blinded us to our unfreedom and that people driving over the speed limit was a sign of incipient fascism—and he never stopped working to replace our free society with his spurious Animal Farm form of "socialist liberation".
Utopians can be some of the cruelest, crassest, stupidest people, all because they think their florid fantasies make them a moral elect who can shit on the rest of us in the name of their sacred cause.
America would be a much better place if Marcuse and his ilk were expelled from the country, just as you'd expel a rude ungrateful guest from a dinner party.
As C.S. Lewis pointed out so precisely; "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
There's a lot of people who seem curiously ungrateful about how we white westerners saved them from the Nazis. I wouldn't dare say anything more in a German blog, though
I think of it more as a proxy faith w a proxy God, proxy priesthood, proxy Messiah (Marx), proxy heaven, and a readymade morality/ideology for the young and unhappy.
But the Marxists, Marcuseans and their ilk are some kind of cross bw cult leader, prophet of doom, PT Barnums selling Slavery in shiny bottles labeled Liberation, and Jokers who just want to watch the world burn....
With all of it powered by resentment, wounded feelings and the utopian urges and fantasies that most of us outgrow once we get smacked in the face by real-world adult reality.
a revised history that gives equal say to losers and winners ,of a conflict ,it's causes and out com ,The current history is written by the winners and therefore unfair to the losers . To get a better view of the last big world wars read . Lew Rockell,s post of August 19 th .24
True.The better proposition would have been for someone to have shown the exact quotes for context.Rather than what someone thinks it says (which might be right on the $)The books I have listed further down do that..
Some of those are pretty reasonable strategies to use against the left, mind. Rights and dignities are privileges to be granted in proportion to how fundamentally anti-liberal someone is. This isn't even a politically expedient formulation; that virtue is in its essence fundamentally opposed to those who currently don the moniker of "liberal" is a perennial truth.
Well, you never write anything I do not find brilliant and true, or deeply illuminating, or all of those plus sometimes hilariously funny too, but I will put this a little differently.
All of these people purportedly terrified of Undead Hitler found themselves, during this our neverending Plague Era, to be perfectly classical Good Germans, sprung up like very bad mushrooms in most Western countries, and even if they can't name to themselves what they had dormant inside them waiting for rain to flourish, it had to be a strangely unsettling feeling.
In those days when I discovered Twitter where I discovered Berenson and then you and el gato malo (either directly or by references) just in time to be able to find Substack--in those days I couldn't believe what I was seeing, the virulence of people who should have known better because of history that their own families must have been one way or another touched by, wanting anyone refusing to submit to vax insanity excluded from society; maybe even denied the ability to buy food; denied the ability to keep their households afloat because they did what the papers of record in America had always advised, in medical matters before the Plague Era--to do your own research.
If you found yourself to be that monster and you are therefore a fundamentally weak and dishonest person are you ever gonna acknowledge that? Better to find Undead Hitler everywhere than look into the chambers of your own bad heart.
It is very difficult to embody the conceptual contradictions and evasions of others, which - in terms of the Left - are everywhere and always projected onto a passive canvas (i.e. onto spectacular images of those they wish to harm, which ultimately are alienated representations of themselves). To actively engage this parody one must embody it and live the dissonance these people fracture and mutate themselves around. I have not read the original article, and my use of German is too basic to be of any use, but your article captures the absurdity of the Leftist mind, the anti-social society that engenders and its self abnegating behaviour perfectly. It is a dance macabre. You have danced with the dead and come back with an excellent article.
Self parodies are everywhere. Look at the established left-wing Parties in Germany, US, UK, France—everywhere! Their current candidates are more ridiculous than the invented ones in the Babylon Bee!
No one cares about the definition. In fact, I don't think most people know the definition, or know the word was coined by Mussolini and defined by him--basically, when the state and corporations team up for total control. All the definitions of fascism found online are fabricated (made up).
Yes you see it's really very simple. Javier Milei is famous for his fight against Argentina's inflation and inflation is fascist, so his hate of inflation makes Milei also fascist. Because fascists are haters. Also Trump talks about bringing down inflation which is fascist hate speech, because he hates inflation and inflation is fascist so that's why he's fascist.
My main question is: do most Germans still recoil from the word "Hitler" after so many countless repetitions of Godwin's Law? I think it's lost all effect in the USA, along with "racist," "white supremicist," and "far-right extremist." Those incantations have lost their magic and no longer stick to their targets. Are we yet in a post-Godwin era?
Agreed--there is no shortage of hearing those accusations fly. But just as "deplorable" became a badge of honor, the effect of being branded a Bad Person without evidence is negligible at best these days.
No, but if we had access to hedgehogs we would certainly try them instead of wooden balls. Our croquet pitch is very hilly and challenging, and the spines would make that more manageable.
Hitler is our secular Satan, which means he serves as a tentpole for people to build their morality and their parties and platforms around.
The secular West may not need a god but it def needs a Satan, to remind us all who and what we should never resemble and to stand at the crossroads of Good and Evil.
I assure you it has not lost any effect in America, every bien-pensant liberal I know compares every Republican and every opponent of the Social Justice agenda to Hitler and the Nazis—"those book-burners don't want our kids to read 'Gender Queer'"!
It also helps that people know so little history, so no one gets to be Pol Pot or Ivan the Terrible or even Genghis Khan. Americans mostly only know Hitler and Lincoln and Washington.
And Hitler serves an even more valuable purpose now that the main political fissure in the West is Nationalist v Globalist. For the globalist ownership class, playing 6 Degrees of Hitler with every opponent of their agenda is fun, easy and still very effective.
As a former Bay Aryan, I can confirm that Pseudonym is not exaggerating.
I went for a weekend road trip to the countryside outside San Diego with a friend once. She grew up in LA. She was visibly frightened as soon as we left the city. I was confused.
I asked her why she was scared. She said that everyone around us was white and racist. I said, what do you mean, you're half white too (half japanese)? She said, well, when we were in the Safeway, this old white lady asked if I needed help. Like, what, I'm not welcome here without your supervision?
This blew my mind. She was looking at friendly country people being friendly, and hallucinating it into racism that didn't make any sense because SHE WAS ALSO WHITE.
We live in such an odd time. Most of my friends are well-educated, accomplished and even used to be cynics once upon a time. But now the 24/7 propaganda blasts of Crit Race Theory coming from their screens has tenderized and conditioned their brains to believe the world is constructed entirely out of bigotry, like how some people think the air is filled w invisble ghosts.
The Oppressor/Oppressed framework has vanquished the ability to think clearly and conquered almost every Western brain--from the top down. It is really no way to live and also has the effect of turning all these True Believers into everything they claim to hate.
I have so many insane race stories from San Francisco. For all their talk, the people who live there are actually, by far, the most racist people I've ever met. Some of them are this way explicitly, and just hiding behind woke moralizing. But for a lot of them, their sincere desire to be good people combined with the constant brainwashing the California public school system exposes them to, causes them to be insufferable racists in the process of trying to be anti-racist.
I've probably shared this story here before, but I used to work in an office in SF where I was the only Canadian. Then we hired another Canadian. Him and I were immediately best friends, joking about ketchup chips and house hippos and Red Green and all that. But he was a very dark-skinned black guy. Everyone else in the office was walking on eggshells around him. They were so paranoid about being _accidentally_ racist that they ended up making him feel incredibly unwelcome, because, "why is everyone acting so weird around me?". It's sad
The propaganda is getting more blatant with less pretense of subtlety. Same thing here in the US, as well as the UK and so many other places.
Unfortunately, it's unlikely to be noticed by those overheating frogs who have been sliding down the slippery slope, exemplified by a conversation at my weekly croquet game yesterday. Our one entrenched liberal was reduced to incoherent mumbling by the efforts of two of us pointing out that the Democratic Party, while claiming to be the Champion Of Democracy, is engaging in the least democratic practices in living memory. His counterarguments were "Orange man bad" and "NPR says..."
At least we're all still on friendly terms, although the host is on the verge of forbidding politics as a topic of conversation.
The media - both news and entertainment - have now politicized nearly everything in our society as an extremely powerful mechanism of control.
Most people will not act to secure their future, so long as they feel they have an advocate fighting for them in the public or political arenas. This is why Republican vs Democrat equals divide and conquer (we fight amongst ourselves while they decimate our support systems and establish totalitarian control). The human mind is binary. Our thought process can often be boiled down into terms (often ultimatums) of – this or that – and our adversaries understand - very well - the art of this war.
They know that politicization (pitting us at each other throats regardless of relationship status - neighbor, co-worker, friend, family) is so effective at manipulating us because most emotionally connect their personal belief system to the belief system of their political party, and so then any attack on their party – legitimate or otherwise – is interpreted by their brain as an attack on themselves. Reason and logic then jump out the nearest window as raw emotion takes the helm, thus making them even more susceptible to the predatory controlling influences.
These are extremely damaging and misfortunate exploits of human nature. Worse, these exploits are as easy to activate as flipping a light switch for the majority of the population - and they are currently being employed to their maximum effect.
Lefty NPCs love playing the "Secret Hitler" card game. The card they play IRL is "Everyone I don't like is Hitler". Milei and Bukele are the two most popular democratic leaders in the world, fixing broken economies and crime. Gorris and Rapp look just like their American "journalist" counterparts. The same "White Dudes for Harris" appearance...
I think the best response to this kind of thing is to just pick three bullet points and compare them.
"Hitler ran a private army that terrorized his opponents and then used secret deficits to rearm. Milei won a peaceful election and has shrunk Argentine deficits."
that's from the same guy who diagnoses postmodern schizoid fascism in vladimir putin. obviously he's a connoisseur.
but even if it were true, about January 6 (which it is not), I want to know how that is fascism, how OvErThRoWinG a SySTeM By FoRCE is fascism. that is what the allies did to Nazi Germany, was that fascism you retard.
what are we even saying here? this the most insane unhinged drivel ever.
Projection is the name of the game. The Left likes to accuse the Right of everything they themselves do or would like to do, if they could. All gulags are operated by those on the Left.
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is literally their Bible. The left has learned that this is the way to go, be community disorganizers, burn blow up buildings, loot, rape. oh oops
well, every City that is run by Democrats is a shithole
Reading this, it's no surprise why some of my German friends hate Viktor Orbán so much. Doesn't matter what I tell them about the reality of life in Hungary they still have this idea I'm living in a far right dictatorship.
the Orbán hate is totally baffling, he's constructed as this unique political phenomenon, a fascoid democratically elected dictator, he just looks like 1980s right-leaning Euro politician.
Just as Trump sent our Left-liberal clerisy into a endless nervous breakdown because he stole all their toys, Orban did the same thing to the NGOocracy and got the same response.
He doesn't allow BLTGQ talk in schools! He doesn't believe that democracy requires allowing shadowy billionaire-funded CIA-adjacent NGOs to operate in his country.! When people are used to always getting their way, not getting their way feels like an outrage.
Both men have to be destroyed pour encourager les autres.
Exactly! His views (traditional, conservative, Christian values) would have been unremarkable back in the eighties or nineties. The Overton window has shifted so far left that those values are verging on fascist for many left/liberal types. Yet some of his policies could even be seen as left (generous maternity leave, financial help for students etc..) Not to mention Hungary is becoming more mixed and multicultural, so is definitely not the racist hellhole it's made out to be in the MSM. Most people read only the inflammatory things about Orbán (especially in the left-leaning press) but have never visited Hungary, so their biases are never challenged. What's interesting is there's also some cognitive dissonance from some of those very friends I mentioned, especially when it comes to the thorny topic of immigration. One of them will routinely talk about the racism of the Hungarian government and the dangers of the far right, while at the same time telling me how lucky I am to be living in such a safe, high trust society without the problems they're experiencing in Germany.
'The player must confront a long and complicated series of bureaucratic hurdles resulting from a recent change of address. Mail is being delivered to the wrong address, bank accounts are inaccessible, and nothing is as it should be. The game includes a measure of simulated blood pressure which rises when "frustrating" events happen and lowers after a period of no annoying events. Once a certain blood pressure level is reached, the player suffers an aneurysm and the game ends.'
Disclaimer: Douglas Adams is the closest thing I have to a personal deity.
I don't get why people consider fascism so exceptional.
It's hardly more arcane compared with socialism, communism and liberalism.
All the low quality rightoids feel the need to say "I AM NOT FASCIST" when writing about it, and making endless mea culpas about their more "extreme" positions.
Maybe it's exceptional because it's been firehosed around so liberally that it has lost all meaning, and can be applied to anything one doesn't like. All anybody really knows is that it sounds bad.
People do that with communism and socialism too. We have hundreds of right wingers (again, the low quality, low IQ type) that refuse to comprehend that the issue is within liberalism itself, and we do not have socialism and/or communism anywhere on the planet, we just have cynical neoliberalism and oligarchy in various flavors.
Wow, so many gems here: "moral peacockery", "crushing lack of self-awareness", "respawned Hitlers lurking within our democracies".
The term "fascism" is rapidly losing its meaning for me, due to overuse. Perhaps you could come up with a replacement word (e.g., "lugabug") as you did for "democracy".
"Moral peacockery!" We have no choice but to love your insightful word smithing, Eugy! Thank you very much for this timely (yet disturbing) essay.
This is all not fun and games. These charlatans really worry me, as your writing shows the inherent danger inherent in these bizarre scoundrels' ultimate intent, which is (ironically) what Hitler did actually say about controlling society by brainwashing the next generation. Childrens' books? Cold and calculated—the epitome of evil. Their targeting (grooming) of our little ones leads my own thinking briefly awry into hostility, which assaults my Christian nature. These ilk would rather infiltrate naïve minds with incessant thoughts of deviant behavior, insisting, as one example, on choosing "preferred pronouns", which are just a means of constantly thinking about selecting how one intends to consummate one's deviant sexual practices, with whatever consensual or non-consensual species the target of depravity turns out to be. Forcing them to think about those things which usually would lie furthest from one's mind. The final irony is that these perpetrators enlist their own version of SA, willing brownshirts, to do their final, often violent, intimidations. Closet Nazis. As the immortal Frank Zappa once said in song, "Who are the Brain Police?"
i had enormous trouble publishing this post for some reason. i apologise if anybody got duplicate emails.
I think the fault probably lies with the fascists.
The only secret is that they think we're *all* Hitler. And even that's not much of a secret any more.
To best decipher exactly how well-planned every seemingly unrelated, but constant chain of chaotic inducing event is in relation to the endgame, search “ Aldous Huxley/Mike Wallace Interview 195&”. Prepare to be absolutely stunned. He was so inexplicably prescient. So exact, it makes one wonder whether he was an actual prophet or as a friend described him, a “ Time traveler who came back from the future to warn us that we must stop it before it is too late.”
Yours are among the most insightful, well researched and beautifully written commentaries available online. If we existed in an era of even semi-sentience, your contributions would be required reading in the education curriculum.
The ironic projection of fascists labeling those who aren’t a symbiosis of corporate multinational monopolistic megalomaniacs seeking global control is stunning.
Anybody standing against the leviathan is an “ extreme right wing fascist Hitler cutout”. Never mind Nazism was a socialist movement , like political Islam and Communism, with the goal of ruling the world.By any means necessary to achieve their endgame.
How fascist has the UN/WEF/WHO owned West become? The Merriam-Webster dictionary used to define Fascism as the merger of government/bureaucracy/ corporate to deploy authoritarian top down control of the populace.
And then Merriam-Webster was purchased by a corporation and the “ government/corporate merger” was removed from the definition.
Sounds like grapp to me. In my local dialect of American, the word Crapp means poop
Accusing your enemy of your evil behavior is straight out of the communist takeover handbook. Here's one of them:
https://tritorch.com/handbook [image]
Read and share that folks. It's called 'Repressive Tolerance' and it outlines what is occurring all over the west with pinpoint clarity.
Hey, isn't that the US Democrat Party platform?
They also use Cloward and Piven's strategy, then Saul Alinsky's "Rules for radicals". These t actics and strategies were taken up by the Clinton and Obama Chicago school in crafting their left wing takever of American politics, within the willing Democrat party.
Chicago shit school. Have you been to Chicago lately? no neither have I.
This is the perfect location for the democrat gathering.
Thugs meeting in the thug town
No, I think they are there to eliminate the crime and the thugs by passing "common sense" gun laws. That'll do it!
"That's the ticket!"
laying waste to something that was once beautiful and functional...they're on brand again.
I visited Chicago as a tourist when I was 10 and visiting US with my parents.
It was incredibly beautiful with the beach right there. It reminded me of Holland
it's an architectural wonder
It may not be in the platform, but it's what they're going to do...
In the old days, we had a very real Communist Soviet Union where unhinged leftitsts could p*ss off to and never be seen again. Now the annoying ticks infest every TV station, every newspaper and every corner of the public sector and government. These are only places they can get a salary, they couldn't earn a cent making cars, iphones or anything useful. The Marxist-Islamist explosion is coming.
forgot the big one, Hollywood.
No one wants to watch their crap anyway
Its the heartbeat of the 21st century crusade. With many willing sheep---as always.
The sheep are easy to spot. They are the ones lining up to vote.
Bahahaah Democrat......Bahahahah Republican
No they are not the same. Each attempts opposite goals.
Mrs. Bucket you are right about the infestations of the neo cons ,however one good thing they should be given credit for is ,they don't make the darn EVS .and the ipots or smart phones ,scrambling the brains of users with electro magnetic magnetism fog .
Hmmm....I drove a Tesla for seven years and strangely have not become a mush for brains prog. Nor has phone use dampened my intellectual acuity; which has been objectionally measured. I think maybe the brain rot is coming from elsewhere.
Michelle ,I did not say that EVs give you brain fog .I would say EVs give me head ache ,My head not yours .
"scrambling the brains of users" kind of incorporates everyone. 😉
You'd have to search far and wide to find an example of a less grateful refugee than Herbert Marcuse.
America rescued him and his family from the Nazi inferno, set him up in sunny California, made him rich and famous, and yet he never stopped denouncing the country and its people—he even said ridiculous things like America was less free than the Soviet Union because consumerism blinded us to our unfreedom and that people driving over the speed limit was a sign of incipient fascism—and he never stopped working to replace our free society with his spurious Animal Farm form of "socialist liberation".
Utopians can be some of the cruelest, crassest, stupidest people, all because they think their florid fantasies make them a moral elect who can shit on the rest of us in the name of their sacred cause.
America would be a much better place if Marcuse and his ilk were expelled from the country, just as you'd expel a rude ungrateful guest from a dinner party.
As C.S. Lewis pointed out so precisely; "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
There's a lot of people who seem curiously ungrateful about how we white westerners saved them from the Nazis. I wouldn't dare say anything more in a German blog, though
Leftism isn't a serious philosophy, it's a mental health issue
I think of it more as a proxy faith w a proxy God, proxy priesthood, proxy Messiah (Marx), proxy heaven, and a readymade morality/ideology for the young and unhappy.
But the Marxists, Marcuseans and their ilk are some kind of cross bw cult leader, prophet of doom, PT Barnums selling Slavery in shiny bottles labeled Liberation, and Jokers who just want to watch the world burn....
With all of it powered by resentment, wounded feelings and the utopian urges and fantasies that most of us outgrow once we get smacked in the face by real-world adult reality.
very well said!
thanks!
Thanks, Clever. I had forgotten about this other Klown.
That is an excellent comment - a compliment which I find myself surprised to pin on you (of all people). Bravo, and thank you.
There is so much projection in the examples that Eugyppius cited.
a revised history that gives equal say to losers and winners ,of a conflict ,it's causes and out com ,The current history is written by the winners and therefore unfair to the losers . To get a better view of the last big world wars read . Lew Rockell,s post of August 19 th .24
True of mankind since the beginning of recorded time.
"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
However, it does have ramifications and impacts the low intellect voters.
True.The better proposition would have been for someone to have shown the exact quotes for context.Rather than what someone thinks it says (which might be right on the $)The books I have listed further down do that..
https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html
1/The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education
2/Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody
3/Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis
4/The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
5/The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics -Richard Hanania
In fact, its clarity is so pinpoint that one would appreciate some provenance of its authenticity.
Some of those are pretty reasonable strategies to use against the left, mind. Rights and dignities are privileges to be granted in proportion to how fundamentally anti-liberal someone is. This isn't even a politically expedient formulation; that virtue is in its essence fundamentally opposed to those who currently don the moniker of "liberal" is a perennial truth.
Kamala’s “ esoteric” mantra of “ Unburdened by the past..” was coined by Mao.
Herbert Marcuse ??? ...
Another one born into a Jewish family ...
What a coincidence !!! 🤣🤣🤣
Ja wohl, Klaus.
/sarc
Well, you never write anything I do not find brilliant and true, or deeply illuminating, or all of those plus sometimes hilariously funny too, but I will put this a little differently.
All of these people purportedly terrified of Undead Hitler found themselves, during this our neverending Plague Era, to be perfectly classical Good Germans, sprung up like very bad mushrooms in most Western countries, and even if they can't name to themselves what they had dormant inside them waiting for rain to flourish, it had to be a strangely unsettling feeling.
In those days when I discovered Twitter where I discovered Berenson and then you and el gato malo (either directly or by references) just in time to be able to find Substack--in those days I couldn't believe what I was seeing, the virulence of people who should have known better because of history that their own families must have been one way or another touched by, wanting anyone refusing to submit to vax insanity excluded from society; maybe even denied the ability to buy food; denied the ability to keep their households afloat because they did what the papers of record in America had always advised, in medical matters before the Plague Era--to do your own research.
If you found yourself to be that monster and you are therefore a fundamentally weak and dishonest person are you ever gonna acknowledge that? Better to find Undead Hitler everywhere than look into the chambers of your own bad heart.
Weak and dishonest. Too true.
Javier Milei, a fascist, really? If everyone is a fascist, then fascism has no actual definition.
it was hard to write this piece because the Spiegel article is already so much a parody of itself.
It is very difficult to embody the conceptual contradictions and evasions of others, which - in terms of the Left - are everywhere and always projected onto a passive canvas (i.e. onto spectacular images of those they wish to harm, which ultimately are alienated representations of themselves). To actively engage this parody one must embody it and live the dissonance these people fracture and mutate themselves around. I have not read the original article, and my use of German is too basic to be of any use, but your article captures the absurdity of the Leftist mind, the anti-social society that engenders and its self abnegating behaviour perfectly. It is a dance macabre. You have danced with the dead and come back with an excellent article.
It's an excellent article. Very insightful.
thanks so much Mary
Self parodies are everywhere. Look at the established left-wing Parties in Germany, US, UK, France—everywhere! Their current candidates are more ridiculous than the invented ones in the Babylon Bee!
No one cares about the definition. In fact, I don't think most people know the definition, or know the word was coined by Mussolini and defined by him--basically, when the state and corporations team up for total control. All the definitions of fascism found online are fabricated (made up).
Yes you see it's really very simple. Javier Milei is famous for his fight against Argentina's inflation and inflation is fascist, so his hate of inflation makes Milei also fascist. Because fascists are haters. Also Trump talks about bringing down inflation which is fascist hate speech, because he hates inflation and inflation is fascist so that's why he's fascist.
Ding ding ding. Just like every label the postmodernists apply. It has adversarial relevance only.
My main question is: do most Germans still recoil from the word "Hitler" after so many countless repetitions of Godwin's Law? I think it's lost all effect in the USA, along with "racist," "white supremicist," and "far-right extremist." Those incantations have lost their magic and no longer stick to their targets. Are we yet in a post-Godwin era?
Apparently not. My croquet partner is still conditioned to refer to anybody who supports Trump* as a racist.
* defined as anyone who does not wholeheartedly support the Democratic Party.
Agreed--there is no shortage of hearing those accusations fly. But just as "deplorable" became a badge of honor, the effect of being branded a Bad Person without evidence is negligible at best these days.
Tardy, does your partner use a Flamingo mallet and cry “Off with his head!”
No, but if we had access to hedgehogs we would certainly try them instead of wooden balls. Our croquet pitch is very hilly and challenging, and the spines would make that more manageable.
Nyuk nyuk!
Not even close.
Hitler is our secular Satan, which means he serves as a tentpole for people to build their morality and their parties and platforms around.
The secular West may not need a god but it def needs a Satan, to remind us all who and what we should never resemble and to stand at the crossroads of Good and Evil.
I assure you it has not lost any effect in America, every bien-pensant liberal I know compares every Republican and every opponent of the Social Justice agenda to Hitler and the Nazis—"those book-burners don't want our kids to read 'Gender Queer'"!
It also helps that people know so little history, so no one gets to be Pol Pot or Ivan the Terrible or even Genghis Khan. Americans mostly only know Hitler and Lincoln and Washington.
And Hitler serves an even more valuable purpose now that the main political fissure in the West is Nationalist v Globalist. For the globalist ownership class, playing 6 Degrees of Hitler with every opponent of their agenda is fun, easy and still very effective.
Hitler will outlive us all.
I don't question that mindset at all. My point is: if you shoot me and the bullet bounces off, have I actually been shot?
Those of us blessed w bulletproof brains are safe (though my brain is more of a concrete block), but alas we are a small minority.
I live deep in the Blue Bubble of California, and Hitler is out here every day sunning himself under the palm trees.
Everyone who lives more than 10 miles inland from the Pacific is Hitler!
As a former Bay Aryan, I can confirm that Pseudonym is not exaggerating.
I went for a weekend road trip to the countryside outside San Diego with a friend once. She grew up in LA. She was visibly frightened as soon as we left the city. I was confused.
I asked her why she was scared. She said that everyone around us was white and racist. I said, what do you mean, you're half white too (half japanese)? She said, well, when we were in the Safeway, this old white lady asked if I needed help. Like, what, I'm not welcome here without your supervision?
This blew my mind. She was looking at friendly country people being friendly, and hallucinating it into racism that didn't make any sense because SHE WAS ALSO WHITE.
We live in such an odd time. Most of my friends are well-educated, accomplished and even used to be cynics once upon a time. But now the 24/7 propaganda blasts of Crit Race Theory coming from their screens has tenderized and conditioned their brains to believe the world is constructed entirely out of bigotry, like how some people think the air is filled w invisble ghosts.
The Oppressor/Oppressed framework has vanquished the ability to think clearly and conquered almost every Western brain--from the top down. It is really no way to live and also has the effect of turning all these True Believers into everything they claim to hate.
I have so many insane race stories from San Francisco. For all their talk, the people who live there are actually, by far, the most racist people I've ever met. Some of them are this way explicitly, and just hiding behind woke moralizing. But for a lot of them, their sincere desire to be good people combined with the constant brainwashing the California public school system exposes them to, causes them to be insufferable racists in the process of trying to be anti-racist.
I've probably shared this story here before, but I used to work in an office in SF where I was the only Canadian. Then we hired another Canadian. Him and I were immediately best friends, joking about ketchup chips and house hippos and Red Green and all that. But he was a very dark-skinned black guy. Everyone else in the office was walking on eggshells around him. They were so paranoid about being _accidentally_ racist that they ended up making him feel incredibly unwelcome, because, "why is everyone acting so weird around me?". It's sad
Younger males? hardly. Most of them are now sharing Hitler memes.
The propaganda is getting more blatant with less pretense of subtlety. Same thing here in the US, as well as the UK and so many other places.
Unfortunately, it's unlikely to be noticed by those overheating frogs who have been sliding down the slippery slope, exemplified by a conversation at my weekly croquet game yesterday. Our one entrenched liberal was reduced to incoherent mumbling by the efforts of two of us pointing out that the Democratic Party, while claiming to be the Champion Of Democracy, is engaging in the least democratic practices in living memory. His counterarguments were "Orange man bad" and "NPR says..."
At least we're all still on friendly terms, although the host is on the verge of forbidding politics as a topic of conversation.
Thank you for this comment. It goes back to this:
The media - both news and entertainment - have now politicized nearly everything in our society as an extremely powerful mechanism of control.
Most people will not act to secure their future, so long as they feel they have an advocate fighting for them in the public or political arenas. This is why Republican vs Democrat equals divide and conquer (we fight amongst ourselves while they decimate our support systems and establish totalitarian control). The human mind is binary. Our thought process can often be boiled down into terms (often ultimatums) of – this or that – and our adversaries understand - very well - the art of this war.
They know that politicization (pitting us at each other throats regardless of relationship status - neighbor, co-worker, friend, family) is so effective at manipulating us because most emotionally connect their personal belief system to the belief system of their political party, and so then any attack on their party – legitimate or otherwise – is interpreted by their brain as an attack on themselves. Reason and logic then jump out the nearest window as raw emotion takes the helm, thus making them even more susceptible to the predatory controlling influences.
These are extremely damaging and misfortunate exploits of human nature. Worse, these exploits are as easy to activate as flipping a light switch for the majority of the population - and they are currently being employed to their maximum effect.
God, I love this comment.
I have to say this same thing more or less (just not as eloquent) after my mom takes a hit off the Fox News crackpipe.
This comment needs to be a book.
Cheers!
Lefty NPCs love playing the "Secret Hitler" card game. The card they play IRL is "Everyone I don't like is Hitler". Milei and Bukele are the two most popular democratic leaders in the world, fixing broken economies and crime. Gorris and Rapp look just like their American "journalist" counterparts. The same "White Dudes for Harris" appearance...
I think the best response to this kind of thing is to just pick three bullet points and compare them.
"Hitler ran a private army that terrorized his opponents and then used secret deficits to rearm. Milei won a peaceful election and has shrunk Argentine deficits."
Seen that?: https://www.pressermag.com/september-2024/the-left-has-an-authoritarian-problem
"when they stormed the Capitol, they were actually trying to overthrow the system by force."
Perhaps the most laughable falsehood ever perpetrated....
that's from the same guy who diagnoses postmodern schizoid fascism in vladimir putin. obviously he's a connoisseur.
but even if it were true, about January 6 (which it is not), I want to know how that is fascism, how OvErThRoWinG a SySTeM By FoRCE is fascism. that is what the allies did to Nazi Germany, was that fascism you retard.
what are we even saying here? this the most insane unhinged drivel ever.
how OvErThRoWinG a SySTeM By FoRCE is fascism
Didn't something like that happen in 1776?
Difficult to imagine anyone in the US trying to overthrow the government without a weapon.
Particularly members of the single best armed populace on the planet.
"Sure, I own thirty-seven rifles, but since I'm attempting to violently overthrow the government today, I figured I'd LEAVE THEM ALL AT HOME!"
😂😂
Projection is the name of the game. The Left likes to accuse the Right of everything they themselves do or would like to do, if they could. All gulags are operated by those on the Left.
This is it "in a nutshell" Louise!
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is literally their Bible. The left has learned that this is the way to go, be community disorganizers, burn blow up buildings, loot, rape. oh oops
well, every City that is run by Democrats is a shithole
In the future, we'll all be Hitler for 15 minutes. To some, we already are.
A limp-wristed, feckless, self-hating idiot at Yale…is still an idiot.
Reading this, it's no surprise why some of my German friends hate Viktor Orbán so much. Doesn't matter what I tell them about the reality of life in Hungary they still have this idea I'm living in a far right dictatorship.
the Orbán hate is totally baffling, he's constructed as this unique political phenomenon, a fascoid democratically elected dictator, he just looks like 1980s right-leaning Euro politician.
Just as Trump sent our Left-liberal clerisy into a endless nervous breakdown because he stole all their toys, Orban did the same thing to the NGOocracy and got the same response.
He doesn't allow BLTGQ talk in schools! He doesn't believe that democracy requires allowing shadowy billionaire-funded CIA-adjacent NGOs to operate in his country.! When people are used to always getting their way, not getting their way feels like an outrage.
Both men have to be destroyed pour encourager les autres.
Exactly! His views (traditional, conservative, Christian values) would have been unremarkable back in the eighties or nineties. The Overton window has shifted so far left that those values are verging on fascist for many left/liberal types. Yet some of his policies could even be seen as left (generous maternity leave, financial help for students etc..) Not to mention Hungary is becoming more mixed and multicultural, so is definitely not the racist hellhole it's made out to be in the MSM. Most people read only the inflammatory things about Orbán (especially in the left-leaning press) but have never visited Hungary, so their biases are never challenged. What's interesting is there's also some cognitive dissonance from some of those very friends I mentioned, especially when it comes to the thorny topic of immigration. One of them will routinely talk about the racism of the Hungarian government and the dangers of the far right, while at the same time telling me how lucky I am to be living in such a safe, high trust society without the problems they're experiencing in Germany.
The spectacular level of stupidity makes me certain that some bureaucrats read Rob Grant’s satire as a manifesto or users manual. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompetence_(novel)
The Wikipedia description had me at Red Dwarf. Must track down this novel immediately. Thanks for the tip!
The first chapter of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has some pretty good commentary too.
I would add that Douglas Adams scripted the 1987 interactive computer game Bureaucracy – I still have a floppy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)
'The player must confront a long and complicated series of bureaucratic hurdles resulting from a recent change of address. Mail is being delivered to the wrong address, bank accounts are inaccessible, and nothing is as it should be. The game includes a measure of simulated blood pressure which rises when "frustrating" events happen and lowers after a period of no annoying events. Once a certain blood pressure level is reached, the player suffers an aneurysm and the game ends.'
Disclaimer: Douglas Adams is the closest thing I have to a personal deity.
Thanks for the link. I got the Kindle version for only US$3.
I don't get why people consider fascism so exceptional.
It's hardly more arcane compared with socialism, communism and liberalism.
All the low quality rightoids feel the need to say "I AM NOT FASCIST" when writing about it, and making endless mea culpas about their more "extreme" positions.
Get over it already.
Maybe it's exceptional because it's been firehosed around so liberally that it has lost all meaning, and can be applied to anything one doesn't like. All anybody really knows is that it sounds bad.
People do that with communism and socialism too. We have hundreds of right wingers (again, the low quality, low IQ type) that refuse to comprehend that the issue is within liberalism itself, and we do not have socialism and/or communism anywhere on the planet, we just have cynical neoliberalism and oligarchy in various flavors.
Wow, so many gems here: "moral peacockery", "crushing lack of self-awareness", "respawned Hitlers lurking within our democracies".
The term "fascism" is rapidly losing its meaning for me, due to overuse. Perhaps you could come up with a replacement word (e.g., "lugabug") as you did for "democracy".
"Moral peacockery!" We have no choice but to love your insightful word smithing, Eugy! Thank you very much for this timely (yet disturbing) essay.
This is all not fun and games. These charlatans really worry me, as your writing shows the inherent danger inherent in these bizarre scoundrels' ultimate intent, which is (ironically) what Hitler did actually say about controlling society by brainwashing the next generation. Childrens' books? Cold and calculated—the epitome of evil. Their targeting (grooming) of our little ones leads my own thinking briefly awry into hostility, which assaults my Christian nature. These ilk would rather infiltrate naïve minds with incessant thoughts of deviant behavior, insisting, as one example, on choosing "preferred pronouns", which are just a means of constantly thinking about selecting how one intends to consummate one's deviant sexual practices, with whatever consensual or non-consensual species the target of depravity turns out to be. Forcing them to think about those things which usually would lie furthest from one's mind. The final irony is that these perpetrators enlist their own version of SA, willing brownshirts, to do their final, often violent, intimidations. Closet Nazis. As the immortal Frank Zappa once said in song, "Who are the Brain Police?"