Terrible weapons and terrible people

My sticky notes from End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: On the three-component mechanism of our enemy: [Fascism is] an alliance of three very different groups, each racing towards a different but related apocalyptic dream .. the religious end timers, the tech end timers, and the ethno-nationalist end timers. These three bunkered visions ... [are] bound together by their common abandonment of the very possibility of a stable future. Fascism is always a warped response to real crises. And end times fascism is a response to real planetary scale crises. The responses it proposes--mass sacrifices of humans and non-humans alike--are monstrous and must be purged from our body politic. Primo Levi writes: Every age has its own Fascism, and we see the warning signs wherever the concentration of power denies citizens the possibility and the means of expressing and acting on their own will. On what fascism looks like today: contemporary fascism doesn't look like the ordered and…

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