Toby, I appreciate the thinking in the article, but wanted to clarify one thought. If one uses the word fascism, technically this must involve the interconnections between the governments use of unlimited force combined with the direct involvement in the sphere of big business's participation in government. Otherwise it is plain ole authoritarianism. Certainly it appears that this has collusion occured in "covid crisis". But turning everything over, its it possible that it is the other way around where government(s) have participated with the initiation of pharmacuetical-medical-industrial-complex? If this is the case, this might be a new phenomenon and we would be in need a new term. And we still do not know enough about the events early on whether China sought to attack the west thru the bio weapon and vxx and said "industrial-complex" was taken in by the CCP...we just dont know yet.
This: "We (I) keep circling around the question of how major industrialized countries returned to fascism nearly 80 years after it was completely discredited by World War."
We've had fascism ever since WWII, here in the US, and probably elsewhere.
Throughout WWII, Fascism was rapidly becoming the de facto mode of government in the west; in the US, for example, the mobilization of the nation for WWII meant the creation of an immense administrative state that—rather than seizing and controlling industries directly—worked through a complex of board membership to achieve proxy public control. Which is technically fascism (the so-called "third way.")
This ^^ was even touted at the time as the future and ideal model of all governance; and as it was staffed by “experts” from academia, it was celebrated in universities and taught to generations of students.
But if they were to work towards fascism -- worldwide and here in the US - they had to rid "fascism" of the associations with the almost universally deplored Nazism.
So they recast Nazism—the apotheosis of leftist collectivism—as politically “far Right." And they did this through the introduction of a new political science model that became a bedrock of the field by the mid-20th century.
Meanwhile, they marched forward - politically, culturally, educationally - under the new banner of that distressingly vague term "Progressivism."
On the subtopic of *how* the fascist systems are put into place, I posted a timeline of the key US statutes from 1983 to the present, through which Congress built the public health-based police state we now live in.
Most of the worst laws have been passed since 2000 — just before 9/11 and the US Department of Defense false flag anthrax attacks. They are listed at the post, with links to the full text of each law, and a short summary of what I understand about how each one fits into the overall scheme.
I once asked a womanizer why he kept seducing women. He responded "because I can."
Whether power corrupts or the corruptible seek power, power is addictive. Narcissists and other antagonistic personalities can never get enough validation from those they seek to control. Corporations grow rapidly because of this power-lust. Some corporations achieve close to immortality, while others eventually collapse under their own bloat.
Those of us who are uninterested in personality cults may be somewhat more immune to the group-think/hysteria that has gripped the world. We never turned on daytime TV or watched 'reality shows' on the boob-tube. We didn't see the fascination with the life-styles of rock-royalty or anyone else. We never collected autographs and we refused to stand in line at Xmas to buy the latest fad. We are the minority.
Among us there are many who believe the #gaslight because they identify with the power-mongers skilled in rhetorical deceits, but among us also are the those with critical thinking skills, integrity and the courage to speak the truth.
You just described what happens when people live for their own desires, their own interests and embrace sin rather than living for God and treating others as equally important as themselves. We are to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and to Love others as we love ourselves.
You lived in Colorado in the early 2000's? Any chance you know any rumours about what happened to JonBennet Ramsey?
I'm sure everything that is going to be said about that case has already been said and the only chance of a break is going to come from a match with the strangers DNA that was found on her clothes. One day that man will be arrested for something and he will be caught.
I dunno, there are so many potential suspects and way too many dodgy people involved to claim it was solved.
There's the pedo cult allegations
The strangers DNA
The woman who claimed Fleet White was in a group of abusers
The Ramseys, the cop saying she got bad vibes from John and the mother "pretending" to cry
The Santa
The pagent photographer who was phoning up mums at night saying he didn't do anything to JonBennet. He then went missing
The Mcreynaulds whose daughter went missing 20 years earlier and the play the wife wrote about a girl being kidnapped then being found dead in a basement.
On and on and on... so many dodgy people who on their own look like the suspect. Until you step back and realize there are a dozen other people who fit too.
I've never seen a theory that explains everything. Steven Singular goes for the pedo cult angle but doesn't explain all the strangeness around the Ramseys.
It’ll take me time to digest everything you referenced, but I will enjoy going through it all and will surely learn something of value. Thanks for bringing it all to the table. Though this may be more my domain than yours, I’ll return the favor by recommending Dr. Thomas Cowan’s Human Heart, Cosmic Heart, another beautiful read.
I’m giggling about your time in Boulder and the gurus outnumbering the gas stations as I was there around the same time studying acupuncture. Met a family whose children were abused at an ashram in India. 💔 The longer I live, the less inclined I am to devote myself to any one individual for any reason, yet I suspect I still belong to some sort of low-key cult even if a relatively harmless one… 🤔
“I am working from the premise that God is love and the robber barons seek to be gods — so they want to eliminate their rival. But that’s why we’re going to win, because love is the only immutable force in the universe.” When my mother was dying, crossing over and coming back, she kept telling me that love was the dominant force in the universe. I believe it. And I like your interpretation of One better than Bono’s. Love is a lot like Kintsugi pottery which I’m rather fond of. ❤️
I've just googled your recommendation, Dr. Thomas Cowan's Human Heart, Cosmic Heart. Exploring his website got me excited discovering yet another warrior for truth who is re-setting the off-kilter compass of public "health" and medicine. Excited to see I can get it in Canada by audiobook.
I'm the same way (re: digesting the links Toby provides!) Sometimes I'm 2+ hours reading a short article because I check out the links when I don't know the reference, and it enriches my understanding of his next paragraph.
Another excellent article, Toby! I read Crawford's article Sunday and really enjoyed it. An astute analysis of what is going on around us. My favorite line was about the etiology of fascism being "rather a primitive base instinct". I can't wait to click through the links you've included. Sometimes I wish I were one of those loser, grifters, sucking at the tit of government so I had more time to sit around and read all the brilliant substack's I subscribe to. Thanks again for your work!
Over the years I've read several definitions of and histories of "fascism," most recently Robert Paxton's book. Fwiw, I refused to read Madeleine Albright's book on fascism, well, because she WAS one and I doubt that she was capable of confessing it. I've been thinking about your Substack today and am wondering: how do you define 'fascism'? What particular qualities does modern day fascism have with previous forms? Is is simply just power that nothing else is capable of checking? Is it a trait of the upper and affluent middle classes? Thanks, btw, for your piece today. Our library managed to find a copy of "The Apprentice's Sorcerer" for me, I'm intrigued by the idea that it's inherent in liberalism.
I'm just working from a simple definition of fascism -- "the merger of state and corporate power." The state is Pharma and Pharma is the state now. They exist to serve each other, not the people.
"The Apprentice's Sorcerer" is a left critique of liberalism. I'll be interested to hear what you think of it.
Your definition fits that which most scholars I've read. I will let you know my thoughts on "The Apprentice's Sorcerer." It's a tough book to locate! The University of Pittsburgh doesn't own it and lots of libraries won't lend it out. I refuse to buy it from Amazon.
“Allow power to concentrate too much in too few hands and some industrialists will start killing lots of people for sport — and call it “public health”.”
Absolutely fascinating read. I became further disillusioned by three of your reveals: BMW, Mother Theresa, and Bono.
"Fascism then is not an elaborate ideological construct, but rather a primitive base instinct that is only held in check so long as power is defuse." [Should that read diffuse?]
Your pithy thought explains why the "dark side of human nature" re-emerged in grievous collateral damage the past two years: neighbours no longer talking, families torn apart, civil freedoms & economy trampled, loneliness and isolation, widespread fear and anxiety - to name a few.
The proverb that sprung to mind when I read that line was, "For lack of knowledge, my people perish." In particular, the ignorance in today's society of both history and the human potential for evil makes it hard to share the truth about Gates, Trudeau, WEF, and Pharma fascism because the spirit of the age has idolized Pharma, and people are "naively safe" in their scoffing response that it will never come to that here. "That" being the inhumane plans of the Reset cabal.
A soft, involuntary sob escaped when I got to "God is love....[and] that’s why we’re going to win, because love is the only immutable force in the universe." The heaviness in my spirit lifted with that real and persevering hope.
Now, I'm left with what to do about my retirement pride and joy, my 135 I Series metallic light blue BMW convertible....Knowledge can be so painful. 🙆🏼♀️
Toby, I appreciate the thinking in the article, but wanted to clarify one thought. If one uses the word fascism, technically this must involve the interconnections between the governments use of unlimited force combined with the direct involvement in the sphere of big business's participation in government. Otherwise it is plain ole authoritarianism. Certainly it appears that this has collusion occured in "covid crisis". But turning everything over, its it possible that it is the other way around where government(s) have participated with the initiation of pharmacuetical-medical-industrial-complex? If this is the case, this might be a new phenomenon and we would be in need a new term. And we still do not know enough about the events early on whether China sought to attack the west thru the bio weapon and vxx and said "industrial-complex" was taken in by the CCP...we just dont know yet.
Good piece!
This: "We (I) keep circling around the question of how major industrialized countries returned to fascism nearly 80 years after it was completely discredited by World War."
We've had fascism ever since WWII, here in the US, and probably elsewhere.
Throughout WWII, Fascism was rapidly becoming the de facto mode of government in the west; in the US, for example, the mobilization of the nation for WWII meant the creation of an immense administrative state that—rather than seizing and controlling industries directly—worked through a complex of board membership to achieve proxy public control. Which is technically fascism (the so-called "third way.")
This ^^ was even touted at the time as the future and ideal model of all governance; and as it was staffed by “experts” from academia, it was celebrated in universities and taught to generations of students.
But if they were to work towards fascism -- worldwide and here in the US - they had to rid "fascism" of the associations with the almost universally deplored Nazism.
So they recast Nazism—the apotheosis of leftist collectivism—as politically “far Right." And they did this through the introduction of a new political science model that became a bedrock of the field by the mid-20th century.
Meanwhile, they marched forward - politically, culturally, educationally - under the new banner of that distressingly vague term "Progressivism."
https://mistermicawber.substack.com/p/what-is-a-cult-what-is-fascism?r=110wl5&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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On the subtopic of *how* the fascist systems are put into place, I posted a timeline of the key US statutes from 1983 to the present, through which Congress built the public health-based police state we now live in.
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/american-domestic-bioterrorism-program?s=r
Most of the worst laws have been passed since 2000 — just before 9/11 and the US Department of Defense false flag anthrax attacks. They are listed at the post, with links to the full text of each law, and a short summary of what I understand about how each one fits into the overall scheme.
I once asked a womanizer why he kept seducing women. He responded "because I can."
Whether power corrupts or the corruptible seek power, power is addictive. Narcissists and other antagonistic personalities can never get enough validation from those they seek to control. Corporations grow rapidly because of this power-lust. Some corporations achieve close to immortality, while others eventually collapse under their own bloat.
Those of us who are uninterested in personality cults may be somewhat more immune to the group-think/hysteria that has gripped the world. We never turned on daytime TV or watched 'reality shows' on the boob-tube. We didn't see the fascination with the life-styles of rock-royalty or anyone else. We never collected autographs and we refused to stand in line at Xmas to buy the latest fad. We are the minority.
Among us there are many who believe the #gaslight because they identify with the power-mongers skilled in rhetorical deceits, but among us also are the those with critical thinking skills, integrity and the courage to speak the truth.
You just described what happens when people live for their own desires, their own interests and embrace sin rather than living for God and treating others as equally important as themselves. We are to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength and to Love others as we love ourselves.
Just brilliant, and love the Bono comment...
You lived in Colorado in the early 2000's? Any chance you know any rumours about what happened to JonBennet Ramsey?
I'm sure everything that is going to be said about that case has already been said and the only chance of a break is going to come from a match with the strangers DNA that was found on her clothes. One day that man will be arrested for something and he will be caught.
"Rumours about what happened to JonBennett Ramsey"
That line doesn't sound right. I mean rumours about the case rather than what happened to her.
It was no stranger ... This was pretty much solved years ago just gotta deep dive
I dunno, there are so many potential suspects and way too many dodgy people involved to claim it was solved.
There's the pedo cult allegations
The strangers DNA
The woman who claimed Fleet White was in a group of abusers
The Ramseys, the cop saying she got bad vibes from John and the mother "pretending" to cry
The Santa
The pagent photographer who was phoning up mums at night saying he didn't do anything to JonBennet. He then went missing
The Mcreynaulds whose daughter went missing 20 years earlier and the play the wife wrote about a girl being kidnapped then being found dead in a basement.
On and on and on... so many dodgy people who on their own look like the suspect. Until you step back and realize there are a dozen other people who fit too.
I've never seen a theory that explains everything. Steven Singular goes for the pedo cult angle but doesn't explain all the strangeness around the Ramseys.
Such a messed up case! Who do you think did it?
Helluva beautiful read, Toby. 🥲
It’ll take me time to digest everything you referenced, but I will enjoy going through it all and will surely learn something of value. Thanks for bringing it all to the table. Though this may be more my domain than yours, I’ll return the favor by recommending Dr. Thomas Cowan’s Human Heart, Cosmic Heart, another beautiful read.
I’m giggling about your time in Boulder and the gurus outnumbering the gas stations as I was there around the same time studying acupuncture. Met a family whose children were abused at an ashram in India. 💔 The longer I live, the less inclined I am to devote myself to any one individual for any reason, yet I suspect I still belong to some sort of low-key cult even if a relatively harmless one… 🤔
“I am working from the premise that God is love and the robber barons seek to be gods — so they want to eliminate their rival. But that’s why we’re going to win, because love is the only immutable force in the universe.” When my mother was dying, crossing over and coming back, she kept telling me that love was the dominant force in the universe. I believe it. And I like your interpretation of One better than Bono’s. Love is a lot like Kintsugi pottery which I’m rather fond of. ❤️
I've just googled your recommendation, Dr. Thomas Cowan's Human Heart, Cosmic Heart. Exploring his website got me excited discovering yet another warrior for truth who is re-setting the off-kilter compass of public "health" and medicine. Excited to see I can get it in Canada by audiobook.
I'm the same way (re: digesting the links Toby provides!) Sometimes I'm 2+ hours reading a short article because I check out the links when I don't know the reference, and it enriches my understanding of his next paragraph.
Thank you for your lovely comment! I'm a huge fan of Human Heart, Cosmic Heart and recommend that everyone read it!
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/human-heart-cosmic-heart/
Also, people need to know about Strophanthus -- it's amazing! https://drtomcowan.com/pages/strophanthus
Your last paragraph is especially gorgeous. Thank you for sharing it with us!
Aww, thanks, you made my day!
A lot of threads to chase in this post. A very satisfying read. I really enjoy your writing. Thank you.
Another excellent article, Toby! I read Crawford's article Sunday and really enjoyed it. An astute analysis of what is going on around us. My favorite line was about the etiology of fascism being "rather a primitive base instinct". I can't wait to click through the links you've included. Sometimes I wish I were one of those loser, grifters, sucking at the tit of government so I had more time to sit around and read all the brilliant substack's I subscribe to. Thanks again for your work!
Guess which other Nazi are still in power ... Psst, it's the one supporting the Nazis.
***GM sues Gov't for bombing its Nazi controlled plants in WWII***
And they won.
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𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘐𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘌𝘖 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴, 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴. 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴: "𝘠𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘳, 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥. 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵."
𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘛𝘏𝘈𝘛 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘐𝘐 𝘎𝘔 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘴, 𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴. 𝘐𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘎𝘔 𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘐𝘐, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 1967 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 $33 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘹 𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘴. 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘺𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘉𝘔 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺. 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘖𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘣𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺. 𝘐𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵, 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘳, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘐𝘐 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘐𝘐
Over the years I've read several definitions of and histories of "fascism," most recently Robert Paxton's book. Fwiw, I refused to read Madeleine Albright's book on fascism, well, because she WAS one and I doubt that she was capable of confessing it. I've been thinking about your Substack today and am wondering: how do you define 'fascism'? What particular qualities does modern day fascism have with previous forms? Is is simply just power that nothing else is capable of checking? Is it a trait of the upper and affluent middle classes? Thanks, btw, for your piece today. Our library managed to find a copy of "The Apprentice's Sorcerer" for me, I'm intrigued by the idea that it's inherent in liberalism.
I'm just working from a simple definition of fascism -- "the merger of state and corporate power." The state is Pharma and Pharma is the state now. They exist to serve each other, not the people.
"The Apprentice's Sorcerer" is a left critique of liberalism. I'll be interested to hear what you think of it.
Your definition fits that which most scholars I've read. I will let you know my thoughts on "The Apprentice's Sorcerer." It's a tough book to locate! The University of Pittsburgh doesn't own it and lots of libraries won't lend it out. I refuse to buy it from Amazon.
“Allow power to concentrate too much in too few hands and some industrialists will start killing lots of people for sport — and call it “public health”.”
Chills of truth reading these words!!!
Astounding writing and thought processes here, Toby. Thank you for sharing your love and your brilliance! So much to ponder and research. Wow.
Absolutely fascinating read. I became further disillusioned by three of your reveals: BMW, Mother Theresa, and Bono.
"Fascism then is not an elaborate ideological construct, but rather a primitive base instinct that is only held in check so long as power is defuse." [Should that read diffuse?]
Your pithy thought explains why the "dark side of human nature" re-emerged in grievous collateral damage the past two years: neighbours no longer talking, families torn apart, civil freedoms & economy trampled, loneliness and isolation, widespread fear and anxiety - to name a few.
The proverb that sprung to mind when I read that line was, "For lack of knowledge, my people perish." In particular, the ignorance in today's society of both history and the human potential for evil makes it hard to share the truth about Gates, Trudeau, WEF, and Pharma fascism because the spirit of the age has idolized Pharma, and people are "naively safe" in their scoffing response that it will never come to that here. "That" being the inhumane plans of the Reset cabal.
A soft, involuntary sob escaped when I got to "God is love....[and] that’s why we’re going to win, because love is the only immutable force in the universe." The heaviness in my spirit lifted with that real and persevering hope.
Now, I'm left with what to do about my retirement pride and joy, my 135 I Series metallic light blue BMW convertible....Knowledge can be so painful. 🙆🏼♀️