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"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." -- Yoda

These are all 'natural things', doesn't mean we should rush to embrace them and the people who use them to manipulate us.



Do you know what fascist means? Or are we just going to use that word for everything that we find unappealing now?

Would love for you to define it, and explain how it applies to American nostalgia for older classic movies that are a foundation of our pop culture.


> The core mobilizing myth of fascism which conditions its ideology, propaganda, style of politics and actions is the vision of the nation's imminent rebirth from decadence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art


Trying to spin people glorifying classic movies to be a form of Nazi degenerate art would've worked better (though I disagree with this even being remotely the same thing and view it as hyperbolic.) This still has nothing to do with fascism.


It is nostalgia for movie era that never really was. By cherry picking old movies and seeing in them what you want to see. Which is something different then trying to analyse actual past production as it actually was.

It is seeing decadence in contrast to past heavenly era, because you want it to be like that.


Okay, you can have a problem with people glorifying the old days. But that still has nothing to do with fascism. My above question has yet to be answered.


Your question is meaningless, because the comment you answered to did not claimed nostalgia is fascist.

He said, youtube algorithm is giving him vaguely fascist content.Bringing up "Birth of Nation" in literally second paragraph.

And I did not said anything about glorifying past, I said the narrative lies about the past.


> Your question is meaningless, because the comment you answered to did not claimed nostalgia is fascist.

In OP's post:

> Is the Youtube algorithm directing people to make vaguely fascist feeling, "bring back the good old days"

So yeah, no. The OP here used the word fascist in reference to the idea of "bring back the good old days".


In referencie to that and butcher of other things. So, no.


So my affinity and longing for simpler times with 8-bit computers can be used to manipulate me for someones ideological purposes? There is a huge gap between someone saying 'it used to be better' and the primrose path to embracing a fascists autocrat!




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