Curtis McHaleFrom Granola to Fascism Without a Wrong Turn
[This was an excellent essay](https://www.ianbetteridge.com/zen-fascist-wi/) tackling purity logic which is represented on both extremes of any argument. At the extremes, both sides feel they have the...
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Zen fascists will control you...
In 1979, a punk band from San Francisco recorded a song about the Governor of California. It was a joke, mostly. Jerry Brown was a Democrat, a Buddhist, a man who dated Linda Ronstadt and discussed limits and simplicity at a moment when America was in no mood for either.