Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator®
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Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator®
Fascists despised the small truths of daily existence, loved slogans that resonated like a new religion, and preferred creative myths to history or journalism. They used new media, which at the time was radio, to create a drumbeat of propaganda that aroused feelings before people had time to ascertain facts. And now, as then, many people confused
... See moreTimothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Isaac Asimov - 44 years ago. Never gets old, it seems. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your
... See moreFascism as its own ideal-type can be understood as a synthesis between the Jock-Douche and the Creep-Loser: a cult of sheer physical of strength and action wedded to a wounded and brooding consciousness of impotence and humiliation.