Intent: Today I want to tell a dark tale about the strange precarious situation we find ourselves in under the emerging fascism we are experiencing in America under Trump and the UK under Boris Johnson by making a comparison between our situation and that of Nazi Germany while noting the primary difference: the fact that we are the ones engaging in the evil this time.
But before I go on, I want to digress into the very Darwinism that NAZI Germany appealed to. The difference between then and now is that Germany was mainly working under the old school understanding of evolution via ‘survival of the fittest’ that resulted in a Spenserian Social Darwinism. However, as more evolved evolutionary scientists have come to understand, it’s not so much a matter of survival of the fittest (that which was based on the metaphysics of power (as eliminating unsustainable systems: the Metaphysics of Efficiency.
And if you think about it, the primary systems that are unsustainable are those that are embracing the emerging fascism in America and the UK. This should be clear from the very fact that many of the people who are embracing it are also engaged in climate change denial because they are afraid the laws we create to address it might take a little power from them in the form of money. In fact, the whole notion of white nationalism is about a desperate attempt to maintain power under a changing demographic.
The scary thing about it is that when it was NAZI Germany and Imperial Japan that were engaging in fascist evil, there was a clear demarcation and it was a lot easier to engage in the elimination of ‘unsustainable systems’. But now we’re dealing with it working within the very system we inhabit. And we would like to think that democracy (being a bloodless form of force (might save us. But just as NAZI Germany did under Hitler, these fascists are working the democratic system in order to destroy it.