Looks like I picked the wrong month to re-read Allan Bloom.
People with unacceptable opinions aren’t permitted to speak in respectable institutions.
In those places where they are allowed to speak, they can be silenced by angry mobs.
The central bank has spent years flooding the economy with cheap money.
And fascist imagery is now cool and transgressive.
Willkommen . . . bienvenue . . . welcome!
Also, forced sterilization is back in vogue with our fascist overlords: http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2014/who-is-for-human-rights.html
…will be back to writing soon. Have been rolling with the changes of real life far too fast to maintain my discursive simulacra, lately!
Our overlords are not fascist, they’re just Weimar-level pragmatists, indifferent to virtue and moral culture but not intentionally replacing it with a worship of the state. The distinction is worth making.
As far as I can see, it’s pretty much a flat arc with a negative slope from Weimar to Hitler, and not a very long one, so I’m not sure the distinction makes much difference except in certain rhetorical contexts….
If it’s flat, how is it an arc?