Political Scientists Reassure Americans That Stripping Minorities Of Citizenship Usually Where Descent Into Fascism Peters Out
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Political Scientists Reassure Americans That Stripping Minorities Of Citizenship Usually Where Descent Into Fascism Peters Out
To insulate ourselves from these seemingly guaranteed failures, Millennials, and Gen Z after us, adopted irony as a cultural strategy. Irony allowed us to continue life under late capitalism while psychologically sheltering ourselves from the demoralizing reality. Irony as culture became: “The band I like will inevitably sell out, so I might as wel
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As a result, rather than their ideas being explicitly and logically argued for, they are slipped into the zeitgeist through the use of humor, both in the positive sense and in the snide, sarcastic sense. This cynical “It’s just a joke!” façade is a convenient mask for an ideology that dare not expose itself completely.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Satire in extreme times is risky. Choose any excess, think you’re wildly exaggerating, and it’s most likely to have been true. (Sympathetic murmur) I know.
Margaret Atwood • Old Babes in the Wood
ironic fascism can become a kind of gateway drug, leading to the unironic version:
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Democrats accuse Republicans of fake science. But Republicans also make the same charge at Democrats. I’m not sure anybody really wins in these arguments, but I can tell you who loses—namely science itself.
But, as you can see from the chart, the term “fake science” hardly existed during the 20th century. In those days, science was considered emble... See more
But, as you can see from the chart, the term “fake science” hardly existed during the 20th century. In those days, science was considered emble... See more