The article emphasizes that the chaotic and brutal nature of fascism is best understood through lived experience rather than theoretical study. It discusses how fascist societies are rife with instability, violence, and self-destructive tendencies, driven by opportunistic leaders and a populace caught in humiliation. While literature can provide insights into fascism's mechanisms and outcomes, it lacks the depth to convey the lived experience of its pervasive dysfunction, leaving individuals trapped in an ongoing state of turmoil with no resolution.
Both in the literature and in the moment, that stupid and strident chaos...is the natural result of the scammers and degenerates...doing the things they do.
The work of their project is to freeze the present in place, and to defy whatever reckoning tomorrow might bring.
Reading about fascism will tell you about how it begins and how it works and even how it tends to end, but it can only tell you so much about how it feels.
Everyone else is trapped in that unending day with them, a place where bad things are always happening but nothing ever resolves.
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