Post by @socialrev • Hey
What up decentralized social media? What's everyone reading today?
Anyone else read this one?
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- "As Reich showed--predicted, in fact-- a "hypnotic" leader like Hitler does not create these conditions; he only exploits them. Fascism is not a wild "barbaric" phenomenon that appears suddenly and without reason in the midst of "civilization." It is the result of a long conditioning process, and the institutions that do the conditioning are those of the "civilization" itself...The syndrome of fascism was not confined to "the Germans." Fascist thought and behavior is not a national aberration but a historically ingrained feature of the psyche of all Western "civilized" people -- a feature clearly visible in the history of Western colonialism and imperialism."
- "Because this is what is missing under both of the competing "world powers", a creative communal life. Both systems -- Western capitalism and Soviet communism -- are based on the denial of communal celebration. For celebration is a play of the spirit, and there is no profit in communal experience.
- "For this is precisely what patriarchy sets out to do: to split material production from spiritual experience, science from magic, medicine from herbal knowledge and psychic/seasonal environment, sexuality from the sacred, art from craft, astronomy from astrology, language from poetry -- and to place the resultant "specialized," abstracted, and mechanistic knowledge in the hands of the privileged male elite organized into professions, hierarchies, and classes. To reduce the ecstatic dance of muscle, blood, and soul to factory assembly lines, production output schedules, and to gross national product."
- Gm, haven't read this. What's is it about exactly?