tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post3335557542265531549..comments2024-03-19T07:10:27.303-07:00Comments on Quark Soup by David Appell: Thoreau With a Machine GunDavid Appellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03318269033139447591noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-49979263988875998552019-03-17T09:44:45.331-07:002019-03-17T09:44:45.331-07:00Eco-fascism is a contradiction in terms, if "...Eco-fascism is a contradiction in terms, if "eco" is shorthand for someone who wishes for mankind to make a switch to a sustainable economic path, and fascism means an authoritarian state with a strong tendency to project most or all problems onto some kind of scapegoat.<br /><br />Fascist states can be sustained for one or two generations, but in the end the repression and cruelty inherent in fascism leads to revolution and war, civil or otherwise (civil war is another contradiction in terms, but we won't go there). <br /><br />The transformation into an ecological economy and society cannot be imposed from above, it has to come about through cooperation at every level - individual, community, business, institutional, local authority, national, international and global. <br /><br />This transformation may sound utopian, but it is already underway, although at a frustratingly slow pace, and the flow of human progress is at the moment swirling in a backwards eddy. However, a tipping point will be reached where the inadequacies of the neo-liberal ideology and the absurdities of Trumpism become impossible to ignore. It may be that Brexit will deliver such a body blow to the United Kingdom (where I live) that the rest of the world will identify and reject the ideology that drove Britain to such an act of self-harm.<br /><br />Or something else may happen. Whatever, eco-fascism is a contradiction in terms.DocRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903964792092284406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-44287830913667219692019-03-17T04:26:47.311-07:002019-03-17T04:26:47.311-07:00On the other hand, Breivik believed global warming...On the other hand, Breivik believed global warming was just a conspiracy. What unifies these people is hatred for muslims, the reasons for the hatred are negotiable.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13637003962678558195noreply@blogger.com