Flirting with Fascism
POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Monday, July 10, 2023 17:00
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Siggy, what really has me kinda wondering, is how prophetic our media and entertainment sometimes is.
I recently got my hands on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and of course mass spying and pre-emptive drone strikes is part of the storyline, which is particularly interesting cause due to the time/effort constraints of filming a production like this the basic plot had to have been laid out BEFORE casting and filming, which means they meant to run with this prior to all the recent revelations about that sort of thing.
And now that I think about it, the infiltration by Hydra, in light of the above, could be an allegory for just how badly Fascism has infiltrated our own intelligence and political systems, although in this case more of Mussolinis Italian brand of it given the Corp sponsored economics of the thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Italy_under_fascism
Socially it's more Straussian, and ole Leo was most certainly a jackboot licker of the very worst order - this isn't party based so much, given that the damn Neocons originated in the office of a Democrat (Henry "scoop" Jackson) and have no real loyalty save to their own agenda.
But yanno, just cause they don't CALL it Fascism, doesn't mean it ain't.
And as the above thread shows, Corporate America and it's fucking alphabet agencies loooooove that sort of thing, always have, always will.
So it's not too far afield to consider the modern Republican party an extension of the fourth reich, yanno, no matter what they CALL it.
In a more just world they'd be outlawed, purged, and hunted down to the very ends of the earth, stomped out of existence and mostly forgotten, but of course I worry about the collateral, sure.
Still, the possibility DOES remain, because people are not infinitely abuseable, and their continued squeezing and abuses are trying the patience of even the most noble souls in this world, who will one day turn their back and not say a word as the nightmare of that purge comes around, because all the alternatives are worse.
For mine own, the only factor of interest is keeping them from blowing our living space into a radioactive wasteland once they realize the jig is up, cause they'd be perfectly happy to blow the planet out from under us rather than not be in charge of it.
-Frem
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Quote:Unfortunately, I don't see you, me, or even a few hundred million being able to effect this in any way. The deep state is, well, deeply entrenched and pretty invisible given that most people like to believe that (1) there are no such things as conspiracies and (2) every person has agency over their own lives. (It gives us little people a feeling of such power to think that our choices affect the shape of our lives.)
For mine own, the only factor of interest is keeping them from blowing our living space into a radioactive wasteland once they realize the jig is up, cause they'd be perfectly happy to blow the planet out from under us rather than not be in charge of it.
I saw an interesting Keiser report... in it, they describe an experiment by the famous behaviorist BF Skinner, at a mental institution in Riverside where he got inmates to behave by having therapists pay them in plastic chips when they did something "right". These plastic chips could be used to buy dinner at the "good table", with a tablecloth, silverware, and flowers. And the inmates didn't feel controlled, they felt empowered, because it was their actions which made a "difference" in their lives. They just didn't look past the plastic chips and flowers to see that there was a system set and controlled up by somebody other than them. It seems that most people are like that- give them their iPhones and their TVs and they won't look past the funny money and goodies to see that they're being set up too.
http://rt.com/shows/keiser-report/199703-episode-max-keiser-672/
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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
Abbnd now that I think about it, the infiltration by Hydra, in light of the above, could be an allegory for just how badly Fascism has infiltrated our own intelligence and political systems, although in this case more of Mussolinis Italian brand of it given the Corp sponsored economics of the thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Italy_under_fascism
Socially it's more Straussian, and ole Leo was most certainly a jackboot licker of the very worst order - this isn't party based so much, given that the damn Neocons originated in the office of a Democrat (Henry "scoop" Jackson) and have no real loyalty save to their own agenda.
But yanno, just cause they don't CALL it Fascism, doesn't mean it ain't.
And as the above thread shows, Corporate America and it's fucking alphabet agencies loooooove that sort of thing, always have, always will.
So it's not too far afield to consider the modern Republican party an extension of the fourth reich, yanno, no matter what they CALL it.
In a more just world they'd be outlawed, purged, and hunted down to the very ends of the earth, stomped out of existence and mostly forgotten, but of course I worry about the collateral, sure.
Still, the possibility DOES remain, because people are not infinitely abuseable, and their continued squeezing and abuses are trying the patience of even the most noble souls in this world, who will one day turn their back and not say a word as the nightmare of that purge comes around, because all the alternatives are worse.
For mine own, the only factor of interest is keeping them from blowing our living space into a radioactive wasteland once they realize the jig is up, cause they'd be perfectly happy to blow the planet out from under us rather than not be in charge of it. -Frem
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