A cura di @marabù.

Fascismo, post-verità e altre amenità; se ne è parlato tanto: qui su aeon se ne riparla un altro po’ (in inglese). L’articolo sostiene che il movimento Alt-Right più che al nazismo attinga alla retorica e all’estetica fasciste; più precisamente: futuriste.

Fascism begins as something in the air. Stealthy as smoke in the darkness, easier to smell than to see. Fascism sets out an ethos, not a set of policies; appeals to emotion, not fact. It begins as a pose, often a deceptive one. It likes propaganda, dislikes truth, and invests heavily in performance. Untroubled by its own incoherence, it is anti-intellectual and yet contemptuous of the populace even as it exploits the crowd mentality. Fascism is accented differently in different countries, and uses the materials – and the media – of the times.

 

Immagine di Tullio Crali, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons