People like @Jake_Hanrahan will always be suspected as “fascists” because they’re interested in war. That means authoritarianism, violence, and death. It means an interest in more than a banal consumer society where all people care about is shopping, getting drunk, and fucking.
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Putting yourself before death; it’s a religious experience. It takes you beyond materialism. In Western liberal democracies, this is meant to be reserved for a small professional elite who use this spirit to defend lib democracy.
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The people who take an amateur interest, like war reporters, are sort of unarmed mercenaries. They appreciate that “war is a force that gives us meaning”, or as Heraclitus said 2,500 years ago: “War is the father of us all, King of all.”
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The incredible rush of closeness to death, your own and others. This is fascistic, as is the notion of the mercenary or freebooter (see the Nazi origins in the Freikorps). Accordingly, the war reporter and war nerd is also slightly suspect in liberal society.
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