Extreme nationalism after World War I, centered on myth, nation, struggle, and subordination to national greatness.
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Fascism
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After World War I, extreme nationalism rises as fascism, which Jiang defines as an extreme version of nationalism.
Fascism treats the nation as an eternal struggle of the fittest where unity, belief, and war can make even a weak nation invincible.
For fascists, war is good because it unites people in a final struggle for survival and remolds them into extreme nationalists.
Jiang reads Weber as predicting either new prophets, rebirth of old ideas, or mechanized petrification; he identifies fascism and communism as rebellions against capitalism.
Jiang treats fascism and communism as twentieth-century new-prophet responses to capitalism that were defeated by World War II and the Cold War.
Jiang says war, religion, and civilization historically gave people structure, meaning, and purpose, but each also generated suffering, superstition, racism, imperialism, or fascism.
Dave argues that disillusionment with liberal-sounding empire can push young people toward communism or fascism, both of which he treats as catastrophic paths.
Jiang predicts that if bureaucratic expansion continues, Canada will move toward fascism or authoritarianism and the remaining sense of liberty and humanity will degrade.
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"are still gonna be alive hopefully i got children who are very invested in still being alive after that and so my thing is..."
"and they they were did really good by their people like no they didn't no they did not the people who lived under them..."
"...the only logical conclusion is Canada is going to head towards fascism or authoritarianism. OK, but the sense of individual liberty, the sense of..."
"And that to me is like what the point what what's the point of society like that? Why does that society exist? What exists..."
"...have the rise of extreme nationalism which is what we call fascism. Okay? Fascism is just the extreme version of nationalism. This is Mussolini..."
"...to translate into a total reality we subordinate everything else. Okay? Fascism is the belief that the nation, the people is in an eternal..."
"That's not what's important. What's important is your faith, right? But the faith decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage, okay? Money..."
"...Catholic religion, okay? And these new ideas will happen. They're called fascism and communism, all right? So capitalism will give rise to the Nazis..."
"The first possible response is nothingness. In which case, guess what? We become a zombie society. A zombie society just means that we just..."
"The second is called fascism, okay, or the Nazis. All right, so the 12th century was really about defeating these two critics of capitalism,..."
"Okay? And traditionally. Or historically. There have been three answers. The first is war. The second is religion. And the third is civilization. Okay?..."
"Fascism. Okay? Okay? War. And conquest. Are the ultimate good. So. Historically. War. Religion. And civilization. Have given. People. Structure. Meaning. And purpose. But..."
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