"It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs."
"One feels, as with Napoleon, that he _can't_ win, and yet he somehow deserves to."
So far as that goes, he resembles so many candidates for so many offices.
But it is at this point where the true fascist emerges (compare Mishima or Le Corbusier):
"Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all 'progressive' thought, has assumed tacitly that all human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain."
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 3.8 ms ] thread"One feels, as with Napoleon, that he _can't_ win, and yet he somehow deserves to."
So far as that goes, he resembles so many candidates for so many offices.
But it is at this point where the true fascist emerges (compare Mishima or Le Corbusier):
"Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all 'progressive' thought, has assumed tacitly that all human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain."