Jackson Hicks > Recent Status Updates

p. 82 “A population raised with myths of national greatness and national purity is particularly susceptible to Great Replacement Theory, as they will believe their nation is great and its greatness is due to the greatness of the defining national group.”

p. 26 “…colonialism relies on a set of presumptions about the nature of history itself. These include the assumption that until a civilization reaches a certain level of sophistication, say with the emergence of writing or discernible hierarchy, it can have no history.”

p. 2 “According to the Nazi political theorist Carl Schmitt, ‘the specific political distinction to which political action and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.’ Which is to say, for fascists, being political means defining oneself against an enemy.”

p. 135 “”They simply could not grasp,” one young woman explained, “that we organized ourselves.” As shore explains, “Kremlin propaganda, the conviction that American intelligence or some other word-controlling force must be pulling the strings…””

p. 74 “But many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics…”