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Dražen's avatar

As Alan Moore once said, fascism is basically giving simple answers to complex problems. I can't find that quote at the moment, but this seems to sum it all up pretty nicely:

》I thought that this was worrying because retreats to infantilism are generally precursors to fascism; that desire for a simple solution to really complex problems. The desire to be told that this has all been done by the illuminati, the international banking Jewish banking conspiracy, the underground Democrat paedophile demons drinking children’s adrenochrome underneath the Comet Ping Pong Pizza restaurant in Washington DC. These are all comic book solutions to comic book problems. Donald Trump — The Donald — is a perfect comic book superhero come to save us from the equally ridiculous threat of whatever it was that he was worried about, [...]《

I'm inclined to think that they didn't get their ideas by perverting Hayek. Comic books and junk SF are far more likely.

You don't mention fascism at all, so I suppose the book doesn't either. Just that all that is not very liberal. Ok, it's not. But what is it, then?

The end of republics is nigh, even if they don't all turn out fascist.

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Blissex's avatar

«borderline racism (“the Christian west is the only creator of morals in the modern civilization”, p. 35)»

I am disappointed that our blogger is not beyond smearing by insinuation of proximity to racism and ethnicism (two completely different concepts too) a cultural ("social capital") argument. Even as I think that the claim of that argument is quite wrong.

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