Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "What have America's Farmers Done?" video.
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"2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values.
However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism
was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection
of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of
Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.
3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in
itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the
intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism"
Umberto Eco's 14 Characteristics of Ur-fascism
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