Re: Fascism?

Posted by Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/11-American-Nations-tp7584250p7584830.html


> Another excellent point!  Perhaps as long as systemic properties are
> _implicit_ (perhaps only sustained through a healthy middle class), the
> system can't really collapse into the rigid fascist structure.  But when
> the systemic property is reified, recognized, made explicit, then we're
> more at risk.  The middle class may just be the right mix of heat and
> crystal to preserve agility.
Viva la Middle Class!

Physical Metaphor...  a well made damascened sword, annealed
differentially to yield a thin, keenly sharpenable edge of high carbon
steel but a robust, flexible inner core of low carbon steel or high
carbon iron, depending on your perspective.  Or perhaps a metaphor from
nucleosynthesis?  Nah..  too obscure.


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