Quote: (03-04-2013 04:35 AM)Kitsune Wrote:
Most of the World's empires weren't fascist governments, so the 'professor' was talking nonsense.
In a way, yes, you're right.
Fascism is nothing more than a 20th century revival of very old ideas (from Sparta and Ancient Rome, mostly). Such old ideas are eternal, because at their core humans don't change much over time.
Fascism has a very bad reputation these days, for obvious reasons. But fascism will return, under a new name, embodying the same old ideas that surface once every N generations or so. And because people care about labels more than they care about content and substance, they will welcome this crypto-Fascism when their lives become too chaotic, and when the society in which they live is too disordered and unpredictable.
"The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her." – H.L. Mencken