Fascism is at its core *about being stupid*, *celebrating ignorance* High school bully shit, given the veneer of ideology This anger at the idea that there's anything "decent ordinary people like me" don't understand, that people like us need to learn, need to change or grow
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When you look at fascism in full flower in Nazi Germany you see how ugly the intentional stupidity is, and you see all the stuff it was a backlash to Germany having once led the world in Nobel Prize winners, who all started fleeing en masse once the fash started taking over
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Weimar Germany having been the most progressive country in the world when it came to gay and trans rights, the place you booked a trip to if you wanted GRS The greatest collection of queer literature in the world, which Hitler rose to power by promising to burn down
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Hitler's whole "Make Germany Great Again" thing being rooted in this desire for Germany to be *stupid*, precisely because Germany had gotten too smart Too progressive, too cosmopolitan, too elitist, too *different*, too *un-German*
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Hence the sheer fucking basicness of every single damn thing the Nazis thought and said and did Nazi art burning all the works of the Cubists and Surrealists as "degeneracy" and favoring chintzy picture-postcard landscapes and tacky heroic statuary
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Nazi science just chasing out minds like Einstein and Bohr and Schroedinger, threatening to kill them for using too much math and too many big words Spitting on relativity and quantum mechanics as "Jewish mumbo-jumbo"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Design and architecture too. They shut down the Bauhaus school, which played a huge role in originating modernism .
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect
Okay, listen, if it doesn't look like a Greek temple, it's not architecture, I want domes and columns, DOMES AND FUCKING COLUMNS, get the FUCK out of here with your effete pilotis you goddam commie.
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Replying to @LibArtsNdCrafts @arthur_affect
Nazi architecture is some of the most badly designed shit ever. So much of it manages to be both bland and fucked up in its scale.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect
I can see it doing what it intended though, creating a sense of smallness and domination. I'm not sure architecture that does that is a good long term tool for a government, but I think the direct intended effect was largely achieved.
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I've threaded before on how the "Empire aesthetic" in Star Wars is very intentionally paying homage to fascist architecture, hence all the realism complaints people bring up about why nothing has safety railings etc.
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