The friendly fascism way that denies the reality of human suffering and death.

The new fascist aesthetic:
"...to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."
Gareth Watkins

"...AI co-opts art and is perverting it. The ultimate weapon of aestheticization: the original art work's idea models are trained on and being endlessly and endlessly reproduced -- therefore softened, diluted, until the substance of the original piece is completely rinsed out. Historical events, fascist ideologies, even war crimes or genocidal fantasies are transformed into superficial aestheticized content. Everything is made beautiful. The obscene is being normalized. Everything becomes tumbler core of
slop (?) ... Deepfakes are near their peak.
Once deepfakes become normalized we'll have reached the final stage of total meaninglessness.
Deepfakes are the ultimate tool of oppression. It's going to get really ugly. Nothing is obscene anymore. And if anyone is offended, just say it was 'edgy ironic humor.' At least fascists in the past had the fucking balls to be honest about it...

The most powerful country on earth is now basically a fucking content house. Everything is ... spectacle, masking politics through optics and emotionalization in order to make it suitable for mass consumption. We truly live in the dumbest timeline imaginable... The restraints on fascist rhetoric are gone.
The previously unthinkable is now normalized.
No shame, No consequences, and No wonder no one takes you seriously when you call something fascist.
Because you're right -- it has lost its meaning.
Which is the point.

One feature of friendly fascism:
Today's banality of evil is to distract from the class war to culture war -- to change material conditions to a story based mostly on emotions, driven by platforms and and AI algorithms...privatization and unelected officials and politics slowly replace the interests of the People into the interests of profit.

Within the framework of friendly fascism this culture war is not merely reactionary rhetoric but a social tool of governance...
'self authoritarianism'...
nations are now seen as businesses with privatized military industrial complexes...and bureaucratic violence... neoliberalism needs fascism to survive ... the snake is finally showing its face again and we are doing nothing... we have become completely desensitized..."

And 'de-intellected.' Friendly fascism is the insane cult of death -- that systematizes labelling to reduce human worth. Its richest-on-the-planet proponent has said, "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy."

Last idea: " One of the most naive mistakes is to believe that you yourself would be safe under a fascist regime.
No matter how much you submit to the state, one question will always linger in your head: "Am I safe?" "

This is deep. Thank you.

Thanks for the thread Oneironaut