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The only person that will ever be on your true side is yourself. But you will be manipulated and taught otherwise by people that are scared of existence. In doing so they make you a pawn to calm their own existential anxiety.
Until people understand conquering their existential dread alone and finding peace in riding the wave of chaos of the universe, which is a constant, there will never be the peace that the others have claimed they will bring you.
Interesting, and yes, the systems of civilization are the artificial construct, restrict human nature and would be a natural part of the change process. I'm reminded of Loki's statement to the crowd: 'humanity yearns for subjugation'. 'Mewling quims' was icing on the cake. Maybe we're not the alphas in the room.
Well you’re in luck because all you have to do is look around because facism is taking hold as we speak
Its weird because we basically all agree its bad but its happening anyway. I keep feeling like someone should do something, but then like I'm someone and cant really do anything.
Are we all just waiting for someone to do something about it?
This. It's such a helpless, defeating feeling. If I looked out my window, and saw people rioting in the streets and fighting the police/ military, I'd immediately be engaging (and most likely immediately getting neutralized), if I had a company of like-minded individuals behind me I'd say let's determine a target. But all of us, you, me, everyone, have the same mindset: If we try, we will win, but if I try, I will die.
Look up Time Ghost's 'The Rise of Hitler' series on YouTube. They've also done a shorter one about Mussolini.
Do you know who Dan Harmon is? Creator of Community and Rick And Morty, IMHO a genius. He had a live podcast named Harmontown where he improvised a history lesson and he came up with this
It explains it all in a more convincing way than any historian could, imho. Besides being funny, he has a deep understanding of what makes humans tick and that's the whole point of how fascism happens
That kind of puts the scene where Rick keeps reanimating in different universes in a new light. Forget the episode, but he keeps coming out of his lab in a different universe and they're all fascist hellholes. He's like "Is this, like, the default setting or something?"
I recently finished reading The Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan. It’s from 2019 and so depressing with how much has happened since then that’s not accounted for, but it was interesting insight into how people like that can accumulate a following. It might help answer your question.
Cool. Will look around for it. Thanks
Read the little book "The Wave" by Morton Rhue. He showed howit starts, with an impressive little example.
Damn, this was a book?! I remember it as an after school special.
When the governments are so useless and out of touch that they put aside the people and forget that it is because of them that they even exist, someone will come spewing nonsense about restoring order and focusing on the people. That person gets so many votes that it gets elected.
It's basically a democracy problem. This wouldn't happen if we had an eternal emperor.