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Fascism and Psychoanalysis: Part 3
“Almost immediately, reality gave ground on more than one point. The truth is that it hankered to give ground. Ten years ago, any symmetrical system whatsoever which gave the appearance of order— dialectical materialism, anti-Semitism, Nazism—was enough to fascinate men. Why not fall under the spell of Tlon and submit to the minute and vast evidence of an ordered planet?”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” 1940
I expect this to be the last PSINK for a while; the next few posts I make here will be more wordbuilding profiles for ELDERNET. I also think the next PSINKs will be reviews or criticisms of media (along the lines of my review of Session 9.)
You may be safe for now. You will not be safe forever. I thought about writing some kind of encouraging afterword to this post—”I’m there with you,” “go out and be dangerous,” “I believe in you”—but the fact is that the options available to you, whether for organizing or survival, depend largely on factors I have no way of knowing. What I will say is that this administration will be at its weakest twice—when it gets started, and when it runs out of power. We are in the first phase right now. We cannot know when the second will be, or what the cost will be to get there. Wherever and whoever you are, there is something you can do, whether it’s helping your friends or fighting the enemy.
Do it.