Even some super-modern architects like Corbusier were Fascists under the sheets. I don't like Corbusier's architecture, but not because it's modern. I think I went over this in my art post
“To the fascist, history only very loosely exists. Progress is constant and unending, as is struggle and strife. Progress can only be achieved in an environment of struggle. “
If history is cyclical (mythical), what are you progressing towards? If you accept this fatalism, what use is the violent struggle between, say, the proletariat and bourgeoisie?
I think the garden variety fascists on iFunny etc would disagree, they’d say someone like Hitler was inevitable because of the cycle of history (Yugas, perhaps) we’re in. Course of empire and whatnot. They probably wouldn’t say it’s fatalistic, but they seem to categorically reject the “arc of history” unique to Christianity
It’s complicated. The Yuga Cycles in my opinion shouldn’t be relegated to a metaphor for the rise and fall of civilizations. We are clearly in a spiritual dark age but people shouldn’t be fatalistic about it and believe it has to be this way. The Yuga Cycle is more about the natural oscillation of good and evil, of order and chaos. They both come out of each other. Like a sine wave
Even some super-modern architects like Corbusier were Fascists under the sheets. I don't like Corbusier's architecture, but not because it's modern. I think I went over this in my art post
“To the fascist, history only very loosely exists. Progress is constant and unending, as is struggle and strife. Progress can only be achieved in an environment of struggle. “
If history is cyclical (mythical), what are you progressing towards? If you accept this fatalism, what use is the violent struggle between, say, the proletariat and bourgeoisie?
Fascist historiology is specifically anti-fatalist, the idea is that there is no particular course of history. It just happens.
I think the garden variety fascists on iFunny etc would disagree, they’d say someone like Hitler was inevitable because of the cycle of history (Yugas, perhaps) we’re in. Course of empire and whatnot. They probably wouldn’t say it’s fatalistic, but they seem to categorically reject the “arc of history” unique to Christianity
It’s complicated. The Yuga Cycles in my opinion shouldn’t be relegated to a metaphor for the rise and fall of civilizations. We are clearly in a spiritual dark age but people shouldn’t be fatalistic about it and believe it has to be this way. The Yuga Cycle is more about the natural oscillation of good and evil, of order and chaos. They both come out of each other. Like a sine wave
Doesn’t that contradict the idea that there’s “no particular course of history”?