it’s more like if we don’t talk about how these schemes of oppression hand off to eachother, pass the baton, now, the knowledge becomes lost to everyone but the academics who study ur-fascism. i work to be very considered in how i phrase things because words have meaning. i also come at it from the angle that a lot of people living in the imperial cores of America, Russia, and China don’t even recognize that they live in the hellscape outlined in George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four and that talking about capitalism v communism is not the fight most of the world at large is having, they’re talking about fascism v anarchy.
The problem is if everything becomes fascism, then nobody cares about it. I remember in high school people calling Obama a fascist. So now they have nowhere to go when Trump showed up.
That kind of vague academic language screams of “word salad”, of people using big words to make themselves feel smart and feel like they’ve said and done a lot without doing anything at all. Like this Calvin and Hobbes comic:
You’re not at all worried about the phenomenon of diluting definitions of powerful words until they lose their power, are you?
it’s more like if we don’t talk about how these schemes of oppression hand off to eachother, pass the baton, now, the knowledge becomes lost to everyone but the academics who study ur-fascism. i work to be very considered in how i phrase things because words have meaning. i also come at it from the angle that a lot of people living in the imperial cores of America, Russia, and China don’t even recognize that they live in the hellscape outlined in George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four and that talking about capitalism v communism is not the fight most of the world at large is having, they’re talking about fascism v anarchy.
The problem is if everything becomes fascism, then nobody cares about it. I remember in high school people calling Obama a fascist. So now they have nowhere to go when Trump showed up.
That kind of vague academic language screams of “word salad”, of people using big words to make themselves feel smart and feel like they’ve said and done a lot without doing anything at all. Like this Calvin and Hobbes comic:
https://i.imgur.com/XUZce4A.jpeg
You’re not wrong. This is what anti-intellectualism gets us, and that goes double for the Hyper® versions.
Honestly a lot of these terms are quite old and not great at describing current politics.