This is evidence that the financial gain of big businesses and power hungry counties as the U.S. far outweighs the health and balance of the world in totality. These governments were willing to sacrifice the agreed upon plan to lower greenhouse emissions, and thus is the reason for the irreversible state society is in now.

The latter half of the 20th century’s war on poverty Johnson administration) and war on drug (Bush administration) both pose as the government’s manipulation of society to blindly support acts that exploited and targeted specific groups of people, in this case, Blacks. When in fact, just as the war on terrorism, these threats were not threats at all, but a tool of scapegoating

The real threat to society is capitalism. Capitalism is the reason there is still such a disparity between social classes because of the exploitation in economics. The U.S. especially is more of a hungry bank than a country. It feeds off of profit, by any means necessary

The U.S. has been known for yellow journalism and hysterical propaganda techniques immersed in the media to get the mass on board its bandwagon. The U.S. always creates a patsy, or scapegoat, to stir the attention from what really taking place in society. To bring this to a more current perspective, the COVID-19 pandemic is flossing over the detrimental effects of the 5G towers that are being placed everywhere. The media instills fear as a tool of control to keep the masa’s mind compartmentalized.

Utopianism literature has always been used as a platform to plant the seed of consciousness for a more equal, just, and balanced world, given voices to those once suppressed. However, seeing as though society’s projected course is set to be in a much worse state than it is in now, Dystopian literature can and is used as a potential wake up call, before it’s too late, if it isn’t already.

Hobbes thus far is describing human nature without a state or civilization: mankind in its natural state. Because of every human being equal ability, their will inevitably be a state of constant fear and suspicion because of this state of survival of the fittest. Extreme competition and scarcity will occur.

This reminds me of news outlets and media in the United States. Certain news channels and media are bias and lean toward a certain side more. As is CNN is more liberal and leftist, and Fox News is more right wing and conservative. It’s a form of confirmation bias.

I believe nationalism initially wasn’t a corrupt ideal, but it’s connotation became tethered to the rise of fascism, and now the two are almost inextricable. But then again, like the author says, this displays the ambiguity of the word fascism. This cultural claim of superiority and Othering of those not seen as same.

I can now make this connection to what the author previously stated about a constant state of war. This keeps the lower class, or proletariats in a conditioned, manageable state. This is why Ur-Fascism’s ideologies are rested in the decadence period that oppose the Enlightenment period. Reason and rationality would shake the status quo and distrust the class system.

so, Ur-fascism is defined in opposition of the age of human reason and individual thought ? Ur-fascism, though accepts the advantages of the industrial movement, maintains a firm grip on conventional ideologies, which are opposing to the Enlightenment era that criticized and dismantled modern, indoctrinated beliefs and ideologies that were controlled by the hegemony (ruling class).

The decadence period of literature: this was an anti-political and anti-utilitarianism movement that enforced the belief of art for art sake. Artists and writers of this movement believed poetry and art should not display any political or social messages or themes. It was just art; Nihilism- rejection of everything meaningful in life. Impressionism was essential to this movement

The ambiguity of the word facism and the context in which it is used.

Is the speaker’s argument here to try and explain how the term facism has become a term that is now used too loosely? The connotation has deviated from its original meaning, and has been used synonymously with racism and extreme nationalism.

All terms that are associated with the Resistance: the liberation of the prisoners and anti-Nazi movement throughout Europe.

The Resistance was a movement comprised of German oppressed prisoners and civil population who retaliated against the Nazi occupants, driving them out and freeing the prisoners of the camps.

I am reminded of the slogan “War is Peace” from 1984. The speaker lives where war is so socially normalized to where peace is a peculiar state of being. Notice, the speaker says “I had been told”. So he is accepting indoctrinated beliefs about the world. No self taught knowledge or individual liberty

This speaker separates the American identity from African Americans, distinctly. This is what W.E.B. Dubois discusses in The Souls of Black Folk . The two ness of Black identity. The speaker seems perplexed.