Definition
Fascism as Disease
Fascism came from US to Europe

When 'rationally' trying to avoid to admit that the general behavior of US and Israel is fascist, then definitions get difficult. When using common sense fascism is found on many places, and not that difficult to describe.

Fascism is an easy to explain very malicious mind-addiction. I'll give an example.
Consider a pack a wolves. Imagine that the numerous, because of lack of common sense, easily to influence gamma-male wolves (=the man in the street) based on democracy and freedom of speech give orders to small percentage of creative alpha males and run the whole pack. They pick their own leaders, usually frustrated psychotic alpha male wolves. THEN the pack is having 'wishful nightmares' under religious addiction of the hard drug 'fascism'.

Signs: frustrating use of bureaucracy, cry for individual 'liberty', abundant use of the word 'democracy' and doctrine of law and order executed by 'rational' lawyers together with army/police.

Luckily evolution is way too 'smart' to tolerate such egoistic 'wishful dreaming' (pure reason). Alpha-male wolves are respected and ferocious creatures. When desperate they take the only left road: terrorism. Maniac wolves who act as cheerleaders for a pack should fear for their life.

In human society the best known examples of fascism where in Greek Macedonia (Alexander the Cursed), Italy (Mussolini), US (Klu Klux Klan), Germany (Hitler), South Africa (Apartheid).

The mind-disease fascism easily spreads as myth. Luckily common sense serves as anti-body, otherwise the situation would be hopeless. Outside the Western World lots of common sense is available. Inside too, but not in 'leading' circles. 'Rationality' obviously facilitates getting 'infected with fascism. Most people only get 'sero-positive' with fascism. Signs: easily to influence (zombie behavior). Few (so called 'fascist leaders' = leading of fascism) get really get infected, often because already having some mind aberration. Common people, only with serious minddisease.Scary....

The Joker: Don't try to treat fascism by injecting 'rules'. Fascism GROWS by exploiting rules, first gradually twisting rules and secondly completely obeying. For instance: Nazi concentration camps had meticulously in 'rules' translated productivity targets. These told 'workers' in such camps in abstract but precise figures how many Jews had to be extinguished that year, and from which region. Such targets were translated on trainloads, avoiding to link the 'work' to killing. Fascism came from US to Europe. US was before WWII completely addicted to fascism (Ku Klux Klan), and Germany with its Nazis was an easy target as formerly puritan country (see map of Europe by religion around 1650). Puritans are easy fascism-targets, because of rationality. Without much emotion they live in ever more virtual worlds. Scary nightmare worlds, full of 'terrorists' popping up from 'The Axis of Evil'. Most US soldiers claim that they don't kill, but are performing orders direct from the White House. A HUGE problem is that most Western physicians and most scientists in social science are already infected with 'rationality' (especially 'psychiaters' and 'psychologers').

Zarah2nd, October 2006, updated till present (2009).

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