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minus-squareHyperreality@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up21·9 months agoYep. Umberto Eco: Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak”. On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.
Yep. Umberto Eco: