tfw Nicks concept of Fascism is the ONE thing I 100% agree with him, and the take that gets most people pissed off.https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/958034889986600960 …
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Replying to @Marav0ne
Too many ppl seeing this as boomerist “dems r da real fascists” and not seeing lands critique of central planning aka “top-down platonic-fascist” sys. For land I feel that the spectrum is divided between centralization on one end and decentralization and intelligence on the other
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @Marav0ne
A network, by definition is decentralized with commands/info moving in all directions this make its by its own nature intelligent in that if one node fails info still flows freely. Fascism for land is a strict top-down hierarchy with little to no fluidity, dynamism or intelligenc
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @Marav0ne
Thus in lands political spectrum we have top down “line of sight” inflexible political ideologies on the left and on the other we have fluidic governance-as-technology that is highly adaptive and intelligent as well as decentralized
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque
Its cybernetics all the way down with Land. "Fascism" is just the 20th century modern decription of a negative feedback thermostat as a political system. Like you said, top-down, highly centralized, stratified systems of control.
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Replying to @Marav0ne
The word “fascism” has a veritable ecosystem surrounding it of different meanings and innuendos, and most of the backlash regarding his tweets comes from a dissonance between fascism as system or experience, vs fascism as ideology.
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @Marav0ne
The mind rebels when confronted with the idea that they're living under a declawed variant.
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Not only that but Sapir-whorf comes into play as well. The word itself has been conditioned in society to illicit a sense of taboo or evil. Even though the word is detached from its literal meaning, the socialized meaning of the word takes precedence in how people conceptualizeit
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @Marav0ne
I don't think I'd invoke Sapir-Whorf here, but the social conditioning for what the word elicits is definitely why people refuse to see ActualFa all around them. Even in the cases where it's more apparent!
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