How do you face fascism? I like Orwell's version: ground yourself in direct and immediate experience, trust your senses, find some joy, turn back to face the fascists and tell truths to combat the lies.
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eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” So trust them, feed them, ground yourself.
Thankyou for writing it. 💜
It feels liberating
The only tricky bit is that we have to be open to learning that our truth was mistaken.
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Per Hoffer, people who join authoritarian mass movements do so to escape a self image of individual impotence. The self-actualized individual doesn’t surrender to Mass Individualism.