Related random long winded thought:

I was watching this interview with Margaret Atwood, after watching an interview by Hasan Minhaj of Pete Buttigieg. And in Hasan’s interview he quotes Margaret Thatcher: “who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families”

And all that reminded me of the meme “how did the pandemic radicalize you?”

And for me it was the realization of how much my literal existence, my life and death, is tied to there being a functioning society. That “rugged individualism” is a fantasy. And in many respects an absolute nightmare.

I came out of the pandemic as a pretty chill introvert who struggled with crowds and loud noises, but who had realized how much I need everyone else to survive myself.

I always believed in democracy, but now I believe in a state, a functioning caring collective in a way I hadn’t fully realized before.

Fascism is the antithesis of that, it is a state that views the population as enemies and tools for hoarding power and resources for the few.
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