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Coffin Moon
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His head is a dark and empty star, just his heart and lungs working. A head full of nothing, and this notion that he has done the right thing suddenly twisting away like smoke, like a trick of the light, his own hollowness his only
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“What happens when conspiracy theories become the coin of politics, and mainstream media and educational institutions are discredited, is that citizens no longer have a common reality that can serve as background for democratic deliberation. In such a situation, citizens have no choice but to look for markers to follow other than truth or reliability. What happens in such cases, as we see across the world, is that citizens look to politics for tribal identifications, for addressing personal grievances, and for entertainment. When news becomes sports, the strongman achieves a certain measure of popularity. Fascist politics transforms the news from a conduit of information and reasoned debate into a spectacle with the strongman as the star.”
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
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