Fucked-Up
Cities
by © Eso Anton benjamins, 2020
EC725
Continued from EC724
What about fa-scism and its
origins?
What is this –scism? Who first
noticed it?
Conventional academic wisdom locates the source of ‘fa-scism’, first, in
Italy/ Mussolini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
, thence in
Germany/Hitler; and theories about its origins abound. When all is said, fascism or fascist has
become a word that is little more than a pejorative
that epresses extreme contempt for one’s political opponent. At its most
polarized, communists and fascists, both,call each other by this one word. How are
we to understand this phenomenon?
This writer believes that the scism
has its start with the violent
conversion of a temple complex (Angkor Wat
https://www.archdaily.com/101004/ad-classics-angkor-wat , for example) into a city, where the monolithic authority of the sacred
priest-king divides itself into numerous ‘democratic’ factions, all of which make-believe
themselves no less monopolistic entities than the priest-king of the temple.complex.
What differentiates the authority of the priest-king from that of a ‘democratic’
government is that the priest-king had a
way of becoming God to the people who came under His purview, while a ‘democratic’
authority is too weak (undermined by competing factions) to assert such
authority.
The Way used by the priest-king to become God was by ‘voluntary death’, by which public
means, He persuaded the people that, indeed, God was real—if only because His
death was but a dying into Himself, His own Nature, so to speak.
As the temple became increasinglyconverted into a city, the authority of it
priest-king came under increasing pressure to subdivide (from (1)secular king
to (2) lords to (3) people). What had originally been one bunle of rods (fasces) became a mob of slaves to politics, young/ student democrats who turn the city into a Tower of
Babel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1o3NCPKZ4U , aka Bashington/ Beijing/.etc.
More to follow.
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