Fascism is a lot like a government run by a toddler: Everyone who doesn’t like me is bad and I should kill them. Also people who are weird are bad and we should kill them. And that land over there is mine so I’m gonna take it. All the while I’m going to complain about how I’m the real victim.
Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky delves into this kind of psychology from the interesting angle of treating Narcissistic Sociopaths as an alien form of consciousness. It proposes that sociopaths hijack human social interactions, turning others into mere appendages that carry out the sociopath’s desires.
He understands fascism instinctively, not in an intellectual sense.
Fascism is a lot like a government run by a toddler: Everyone who doesn’t like me is bad and I should kill them. Also people who are weird are bad and we should kill them. And that land over there is mine so I’m gonna take it. All the while I’m going to complain about how I’m the real victim.
Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky delves into this kind of psychology from the interesting angle of treating Narcissistic Sociopaths as an alien form of consciousness. It proposes that sociopaths hijack human social interactions, turning others into mere appendages that carry out the sociopath’s desires.