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• melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  please don’t try to learn this on social media. read an actual long-form book. you will not understand this based on social media interactions; I promise you.

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  • seeigel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly.

    I will look into that Nietzsche though.

    Almost funny that you suggest him while he was instrumentalized by the fascists as a fascist.

    It’s still strange that you stress punching nazis while you have a deeper understanding of their mentality. Don’t people fall back to group strength when they feel vulnerable themselves? Punching Nazis will confirm that vulnerability.

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    • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      he was instrumentalized by nazis because he used one word they liked, and had vibes they wanted to appropriate, and knew their people wouldn’t actually read it-except his sister/editor, who absolutely became a nazi a couple decades after his death, as soon as that was a thing that you could be. he actually explicitly dismissed the underlying (and extremely silly) basis of the master race thing in one of his books, despite dying in the year 1900. basically saying ‘your virtue comes not from your ancestry, not from the past, but by working your ass off to build and become more than you were. don’t be a little bitch who hides in other peoples accomplishments, real or imagined.’ the phrasing in the translation I read was something like ‘we are the hyperboreans, you and I, reader, who endeavor to somethingorother’ and it would take so much education on popular 19th century estoteric racist cope to explain that one line to you, like one of those weird references in a jane austen novel that you need to either be of the time or a historian or a complete no-life nerd to get, but it is also explicitly the basis of the whole ‘aryan master race’ thing, which he explicitly calls bullshit on decades before the concept of fascism, or the war that birthed it, was a glimmer in d’anunzio’s eye.

      it’s part of how fascists consume information. you skim and look for the stuff that confirms what you already believe, no matter how much you need to contort cherry pick or cut out whole paragraphs between words or just totally misremember stuff. it’s solipsistic as fuck.

      the punching in this context is a metaphor for shooting, as I said. it’s a whole identity thing.

      sure, you could try appeasing them, or soft approaches, but they’ve hit a critical mass where, if that were ever possible, it certainly no longer is. they need to be killed. they are solipsists, they have no concept of truth, and they don’t see you as human. they have made themselves into subhuman things that cannot be reasoned with, because they have no more reason. they cannot be negotiated with, because they do not live in the same reality as you. they cannot even be held to a treaty, because they do not have a conception of ‘truth’ or you-as-person; it does not and can not exist in their totalizing world view, which is hostile to contradictory information. it’s kind of terrifying that a person can become so entirely not a person anymore without substantial damage to bodily function. if you want to understand fascism, there are several scholars to start on. arendt is a popular one, if you don’t want to get to commie. if you want something absolutely shitlib friendly, ecco isn’t bad.

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      • seeigel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, I have watched that monk movie.

        So you see fascism as something else than colonialism of white people, as something with a spiritual component.

        That solipsism, isn’t that something that also happens in consumerism and nowadays internet entertainment bubbles?

        I would like to argue that it’s worthwhile to figure out how to reach people in that mental state because fascism and that state of mind are so ubiquitous that violence cannot win.

        Don’t those scholars have any suggestions beyond violence?

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