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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition. Traditionalism is of course much older than fascism. Not only was it typical of counter-revolutionary Catholic thought after the French revolution, but it was born in the late Hellenistic era, as a reaction to classical Greek rationalism. In the Mediterranean basin, people of different religions (most of them indulgently accepted by the Roman Pantheon) started dreaming of a revelation received at the dawn of human history. This revelation, according to the traditionalist mystique, had remained for a long time concealed under the veil of forgotten languages — in Egyptian hieroglyphs, in the Celtic runes, in the scrolls of the little known religions of Asia.

This new culture had to be syncretistic. Syncretism is not only, as the dictionary says, “the combination of different forms of belief or practice”; such a combination must tolerate contradictions. Each of the original messages contains a silver of wisdom, and whenever they seem to say different or incompatible things it is only because all are alluding, allegorically, to the same primeval truth.

As a consequence, there can be no advancement of learning. Truth has been already spelled out once and for all, and we can only keep interpreting its obscure message.

One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements. The most influential theoretical source of the theories of the new Italian right, Julius Evola, merged the Holy Grail with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, alchemy with the Holy Roman and Germanic Empire. The very fact that the Italian right, in order to show its open-mindedness, recently broadened its syllabus to include works by De Maistre, Guenon, and Gramsci, is a blatant proof of syncretism.

If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores, are labeled as New Age, you can find there even Saint Augustine who, as far as I know, was not a fascist. But combining Saint Augustine and Stonehenge — that is a symptom of Ur-Fascism.

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[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

*listens*

...Is there an Eco in here?

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

California Uber Alles

But yeah, hippies are fucking scary. I worked at an organic food store for like a few months until I got fired cause they didn't order flour so I went home instead of baking muffins and cookies WITHOUT FLOUR. I WAS A BAKER, what the fuck do you want? I can't go to the store and get some cause it's an organic place and so it's specific products going in, I can improvise quite a bit, I'm a very very good cook and being able to improvise very well and reworking recipes or just making up new ones on the fly is really one of my greatest strengths. But I need fucking flour. It was according to them my 'attitude' which was not giving a fuck cause they hired one 17 year old to handle all the dry bulk orders and I wasn't allowed to just order shit myself, she dropped the ball, not me. I had a better gig ready to roll anyway so it was fine. There was a walk out a year later and it's now under new ownership.

Also like 80% of the profit was from 'supplements' aka fake medicine. There were people dying of cancer who wouldn't see doctors and were convinced this was the real shit, and bear in mind, we have public Healthcare here, these people profited off of it. Sometimes it was people who doctors said there was nothing that could be done and were just yknow dying and willing to try anything and this place was there to exploit that and bleed their next of kinda inheritance on snake oil. So if mainstream medicine is an evil for profit industry that wants to keep you sick even in a country with socialized Healthcare somehow, what's the fucking difference? If their shit worked they'd be no better than big pharma gouging people for medicine, but they're worse cause it doesn't even fucking work. And whsts even sicker is they're convinced it does. They believe it. Our uniforms at the place had 'it's our lifestyle 'on the back. No it fucking isn't. I also lived with Gen x hippies for a good while cause my first girlfriends family is thst and their parents who are older hippies and they're just libertarians. Absolutely self centered outside of their immediate group and they all act like a weird cult to each other. It's weird and gross.

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