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bonni · 1 year ago

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another interesting thing is that fascism warping perceptions of artistic beauty in the regions where it flourished was and still is a very real phenomenon, but if you think that fascist art was just soooo good intrinsically and that that made it useful for indoctrinating people you've very much got it backwards (as op of that post pointed out). read Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco for free online

#chatter #shameless special interest plug but i really do think everyone could benefit from reading this play #i'm not going to claim to agree with all of ionesco's views etc etc...#he was a left-wing thinker who felt alienated by leftist spaces due to his absolute disdain for any kind of authority or structure #and he allowed that to push him towards centrist/right-wing anarchism later in life which was pretty stupid and self-centered of him #but as a romanian christian with a jewish parent who was racialized as jewish by the nazis and had to flee france during ww2 because of tha #rhinoceros offers a really valuable perspective of what he witnessed among his peers during his time in france leading up to ww2 #and this perspective is widely applicable when discussing the cultural ramifications of fascism #ok infodump over

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