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Wonderful essay!

Disillusioned individuals strive for superiority and dominance to compensate for feelings of inferiority.

Mussolini's rhetoric and the fascist ideology became the method, ideology, and identity for individuals struggling with feelings of fragmentation and alienation. With the nation struggling with the aftermath of World War I and feeling a sense of diminished status on the world stage... this unfortunately created an environment for hate to thrive... as people wrongfully believed it to be their method of liberation

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Couldn't have summarized it better myself! Thanks for the kind words. During this year especially, it seems so obvious to me why we need to look to the past to make sense of what's going on across the world. These challenges and reasons for discontent aren't new, but alas ... human beings have short term -- did you see that Netflix show? Wait, you've got to read this book. There's a message I want you to read.

Alas. The fight continues.

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Samuél, I am learning so much from this series. Can’t wait for part three. Certainly, there are parallels to our time - and in the US’s weird red-hat MAGA movement. Why must bad clothing choices be part of fascism?

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Ha! You’d think the MAGA folk would’ve looked a bit more closely at fascist and Nazi tailors, but no luck.

Thanks for reading friend. I know this is a denser kind of work than some others, so it’s good to know it still resonates with like minded souls 🙏🏼

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