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it is easy to forget that fascism last time around had alot of support--it made sense to some folk, being a radical nationalist ideology that united them in a historical mission directed at an enemy that was both inside and outside, powerful and powerless--a mission personified in the person of the Leader, who spoke almost entirely in the discourse of Will. it reassured people in unstable times. it was most effective in its use of the dominant media of the time.
you would not have had people stepping outside that frame of reference any more than you do now, had the internet existed then, i suspect.
but in general, counterfactual histories are futile.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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