One minute you’re doing the downward dog, the next you’re listening to conspiracy theories about Covid or the new world order. How did the desire to look after yourself become so toxic?
I mean… That seems like an argument for equipping people with better literacy skills given that any competent reading of 1984 would turn you away from fascism.
I don’t know man, with how misused the term is these days, not trusting the government is fascism. And a proper reading of it certainly gives you a distrust of the machine.
Libraries!
Plenty of fascists got their start reading 1984 and distrusting the news.
I said libraries, not books!
I mean… That seems like an argument for equipping people with better literacy skills given that any competent reading of 1984 would turn you away from fascism.
I don’t know man, with how misused the term is these days, not trusting the government is fascism. And a proper reading of it certainly gives you a distrust of the machine.
That absolutely is not fascism. Stop listening to bullshit that’s designed to piss you off and drive a wedge between you and others.
The term isn’t becoming more misued; more people are accurately fitting the definition.