Thread deserving a revival.
We might ask ourselves whether we (1) have gotten an abortive Regeneracy and reverted to a Degeneracy, (2) had a false Regeneracy (worst example -- Nazi Germany establishing a consensus behind racism and militarism as a substitute for weak and ineffective government.. mercifully we are not that bad), (3) show signs of a Regeneracy in massive opposition to Trump and the GOP, (4) are on the brink of one as a trend or a mass movement hostile to the revived Degeneracy, (5) had our chance and missed it -- with the true Regeneracy imposed from the outside (as by the IMF) or never happening, or (6) whether (God forbid!) Donald Trump is the Regeneracy and an unstoppable Wave of the Future.
If (6), then I see a metaphor for a sick new order -- a boot grinding itself into a face.
We might ask ourselves whether we (1) have gotten an abortive Regeneracy and reverted to a Degeneracy, (2) had a false Regeneracy (worst example -- Nazi Germany establishing a consensus behind racism and militarism as a substitute for weak and ineffective government.. mercifully we are not that bad), (3) show signs of a Regeneracy in massive opposition to Trump and the GOP, (4) are on the brink of one as a trend or a mass movement hostile to the revived Degeneracy, (5) had our chance and missed it -- with the true Regeneracy imposed from the outside (as by the IMF) or never happening, or (6) whether (God forbid!) Donald Trump is the Regeneracy and an unstoppable Wave of the Future.
If (6), then I see a metaphor for a sick new order -- a boot grinding itself into a face.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.