Worship of Power
On Worship of Power
Fascists do everything with a cudgel, and call it efficiency.
If their goal is to lower costs, they will decrease demand and raise supply.
They decrease demand by defining their political opponents, or at least by creating targets that are feared or misunderstood by a majority of their supporters. They then reduce the number of their opponents or targets, by criminalizing them or deporting them or outright killing them.
This means that, eventually, there is more land available for their supporters, and more housing, etc., because they have gotten rid of the occupants. So one group benefits from the destruction of another.
They increase supply – for themselves – by force, as well. They reduce the amount of public space, owned by the many – confiscating public parks. They become colonizers, simply taking over land and countries at their whim, starting wherever they perceive either the greatest possibility of support or the easiest victory over perceived weakness.
When fascists use words concerning justice or truth, those words are mere rationalization for the application of brute force on a group or in a place where they hope to achieve support from whatever combination of self-serving temporary alliances they need to achieve their particular immediate goals.
Fascists have little to no concern for truth, justice, human rights, or love, as ideas. Their primary concern is power for themselves. They believe that they have power as some kind of divine right or fate, and that they deserve this power. They believe in ‘power of the fittest’, and define themselves as the fittest, by virtue of their achieving power. They are anti-democratic and anti-human-rights, because democracy plus human rights implies equality, and they believe in their having power and in maintaining it, no matter how they get it. They do not believe in equality, of opportunity or of anything else.
They are certainly opposed to sharing resources in any way, regardless of cost to a society.
For them, there is no intellect of value except as applied toward their goals, and no beauty except as a prize.
Our society is moving toward fascism. It’s a vulgar and brutal paradigm. We need to see that.
