"The liberal subconscious of modern man carries its own judgment, its own negation, its own death. On the extreme edge of the dark energies of the soul of modern man lives a terrible creature -a "magical fascist", a ghost that has acquired flesh, a character of the Marquis de Sade who broke into your apartment... Orwell's "1984" has a very important place that testifies to a rather deep understanding of the laws of human psychology: in the last and most terrible torture chamber, where the hero falls, something happens to him,
what he has feared most throughout his life, in dreams, reveries, disturbing visions. The rats begin to gnaw at his face. If modern society, or more broadly, modern humanity, is terribly afraid of the "fascist," and if this figure corresponds to a certain deepest layer of the "collective unconscious," then such a "fascist" is bound to appear. Of course, not in the form of a political movement similar to the Italian or German precedent. Historical fascism and Nazism had almost nothing in common with the "psychic fascism" that is the internal, psychic threat to humanity now. The new "fascism" will arise by a different logic and under different laws. Most likely, it will be much more terrible than the previous one, because it will be qualitatively different. It will emerge not as an escape from liberalism (which the previous versions of fascism attempted), but as a punishment for liberalism, and it will be born not outside but inside liberal society. As the last point of its history, as its natural end. But since humanity, in fact, has now identified its fate with "humanism" and "liberalism," there is every reason to believe that this will be the end of humanity at the same time.
"Fascist" is an internal concept. Whoever fails to understand the necessity of taking on the full extent of the nightmare inherent in the inner world of de Sade's heroes, whoever fails to accept the tragic and savage mission of the "sadist", will inevitably become a "fascist".
"victimized." In this genre, laws are very cruel, just as liberal reforms and their results are cruel in practice. Of course, in the most radical liberals, one can already discern many "fascist" and "sadistic" traits. But compared to the true "sadists", these are only the first steps of a "humanist" kindergarten. It is unlikely that liberals themselves will find the strength to move toward the ideal of Saint Fon, Maldoror, or Superman. Their humanism remains too "warm" (neither hot nor cold) for that. Consequently, they will become "victims".
And if so, fascism will come to them in the role of executioner. No, it is not at nationalist rallies and congresses, not among criminal authorities, that we will see the real "psychofascists," the formidable heroes of the modern subconscious. On the other side of collectivist ideologies and banal criminality, at the midnight hour, they put on their dark masks, arm themselves with sharp knives and leather whips, and quietly glide through the dark streets in search of a victim. They appear suddenly and unexpectedly, like black, nocturnal ghosts triggered by our ongoing terror, our psychosis. They are anonymous and innumerable. They torment and torment us in long postperestroika dreams. They are slowly moving towards power - but not political, limited and compromise power. To absolute power, based on the total domination of the "sadist" over the cowardly and trembling mass of doomed victims, the "anti-fascists".
Fascists are not evil or violent per se. Their violence is quiet and cold, almost ritualistic. We ourselves, through our fear, through our involvement in the liberal norms of modern solitude, provoke their secret nocturnal visitation. A quiet visit without any threats or political demands. "Every nut wants to be cracked." The "fascist", a terrible character of the decline of liberal civilization, who now finds his formidable physical birth.
All those who believed in "human dignity" and "human freedom" in a secularized world without Tradition and morality will pay the bill. For themselves and for their predecessors.
The Nazis are in town. They're everywhere. They're in us.
Their razors are razor sharp. They will not refuse the opportunity "sovereignty", but we will pay them for its burden and its tragedy. The fascists will come. They will. And they will begin their torture, and they will not leave until they read in our eyes the first signs of understanding of the reality we are in, and what we should be doing in it. If our eyes remain as they are now, the formidable ghosts of the civilizational half of the night will be relieved of their responsibility for the sad outcome.
Sooner or later, the naive mankind's brazen belief in a "good end" will be disproved by the sad and terrible epilogue of the "futility of virtue".
Do you remember what happened to Justine in the end?"
Anyone understand what he is saying here? Most of it confuses me
what he has feared most throughout his life, in dreams, reveries, disturbing visions. The rats begin to gnaw at his face. If modern society, or more broadly, modern humanity, is terribly afraid of the "fascist," and if this figure corresponds to a certain deepest layer of the "collective unconscious," then such a "fascist" is bound to appear. Of course, not in the form of a political movement similar to the Italian or German precedent. Historical fascism and Nazism had almost nothing in common with the "psychic fascism" that is the internal, psychic threat to humanity now. The new "fascism" will arise by a different logic and under different laws. Most likely, it will be much more terrible than the previous one, because it will be qualitatively different. It will emerge not as an escape from liberalism (which the previous versions of fascism attempted), but as a punishment for liberalism, and it will be born not outside but inside liberal society. As the last point of its history, as its natural end. But since humanity, in fact, has now identified its fate with "humanism" and "liberalism," there is every reason to believe that this will be the end of humanity at the same time.
"Fascist" is an internal concept. Whoever fails to understand the necessity of taking on the full extent of the nightmare inherent in the inner world of de Sade's heroes, whoever fails to accept the tragic and savage mission of the "sadist", will inevitably become a "fascist".
"victimized." In this genre, laws are very cruel, just as liberal reforms and their results are cruel in practice. Of course, in the most radical liberals, one can already discern many "fascist" and "sadistic" traits. But compared to the true "sadists", these are only the first steps of a "humanist" kindergarten. It is unlikely that liberals themselves will find the strength to move toward the ideal of Saint Fon, Maldoror, or Superman. Their humanism remains too "warm" (neither hot nor cold) for that. Consequently, they will become "victims".
And if so, fascism will come to them in the role of executioner. No, it is not at nationalist rallies and congresses, not among criminal authorities, that we will see the real "psychofascists," the formidable heroes of the modern subconscious. On the other side of collectivist ideologies and banal criminality, at the midnight hour, they put on their dark masks, arm themselves with sharp knives and leather whips, and quietly glide through the dark streets in search of a victim. They appear suddenly and unexpectedly, like black, nocturnal ghosts triggered by our ongoing terror, our psychosis. They are anonymous and innumerable. They torment and torment us in long postperestroika dreams. They are slowly moving towards power - but not political, limited and compromise power. To absolute power, based on the total domination of the "sadist" over the cowardly and trembling mass of doomed victims, the "anti-fascists".
Fascists are not evil or violent per se. Their violence is quiet and cold, almost ritualistic. We ourselves, through our fear, through our involvement in the liberal norms of modern solitude, provoke their secret nocturnal visitation. A quiet visit without any threats or political demands. "Every nut wants to be cracked." The "fascist", a terrible character of the decline of liberal civilization, who now finds his formidable physical birth.
All those who believed in "human dignity" and "human freedom" in a secularized world without Tradition and morality will pay the bill. For themselves and for their predecessors.
The Nazis are in town. They're everywhere. They're in us.
Their razors are razor sharp. They will not refuse the opportunity "sovereignty", but we will pay them for its burden and its tragedy. The fascists will come. They will. And they will begin their torture, and they will not leave until they read in our eyes the first signs of understanding of the reality we are in, and what we should be doing in it. If our eyes remain as they are now, the formidable ghosts of the civilizational half of the night will be relieved of their responsibility for the sad outcome.
Sooner or later, the naive mankind's brazen belief in a "good end" will be disproved by the sad and terrible epilogue of the "futility of virtue".
Do you remember what happened to Justine in the end?"
Anyone understand what he is saying here? Most of it confuses me
