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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing)
@ericderoulet.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary PhD candidate. Hopefully not a permanent condition.

I research migration, international higher edu., Qing/modern Chinese/Taiwanese intellectual history, and more. Keeper of cats.

https://ericderoulet.scholar.st/

無論什麼時代都在心裡喊叫。
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jaimi.bsky.social
Umberto Eco warned about EXACTLY this in 1995’s “Ur-Fascism,” and some of us have been warning about it ever since we first read it as it was widely circulated after 9/11

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view - one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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tzipshmil.bsky.social
The NYT really spent all their time on the wrong emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM