Cowards who crave the end of their suffering, but too morally craven to end their own misery through either change or suicide, they do everything they can to force the rest of the world to end it for them.
Dominated by their fear, terrified of nothing more than they are of admitting their own terror. They find peace by instilling their own terror in others, and laughing, ha, I am not alone in my terror. That is why they find resistance so intolerable. Because they always could've made the same choice.
This is why describing it as mental illness sucks. It is a moral failing, a choice. Many of us who have mental illness suffer from the contradictions of trying to live in accordance with transformation, reflection, kindness and love in a world designed for and by cowards, sycophants and bosses.
But what they demonstrate, again and again, is that conformity offers them no pleasure, no peace. As their movement is on the rise it feels exciting, rebellious, fun and full of schadenfreude. But at some point they achieve their goal and are confronted, again, with just themselves.
"Where ever you go, there you are". The Nazi rages permanently in a funhouse, smashing mirrors rather than reflect with enough attention to find the way out. But sadly, that's a metaphor: the mirrors for them are other people. They will kill any number that remind them of their own cowardice
You cannot appease them because they do not move from desire. They do not want anything specific (beyond the end of their suffering, which they disavow). The capaciousness of fascism is a reflection of this.
I sure do love living a challenging life of self reflection and willingness to change. It's hard but it beats the slow self asphyxiation of the alternative. /gen
There's also this inherently self-destructive aspect to fascists' mode of action: it's almost exclusively based on constant, relentless, ever-escalating show of force/brutality (toward perceived enemies, poor people, etc). So it means they can't ever reach stability, always escalation
exactly, they act toward being destroyed, the thing they most crave and fear, resistance to the point of destruction, to end their suffering is a mercy
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