Back in the seventies Frank Zappa was warning us about American Nazis and his CNN appearance on Crossfire in the '80s warning about fascist theocracy seemed way over the top at the time but he was bang on.
The effort to make Nazism look normal went well beyond the use of satire or humor. Neal Ascherson has an interesting review in the New York Review of Books of March 27 of eminent Nazi historian Richard Evans' "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich." Hitler's helpers were ordinary Germans who "had been brought up in the culture of rancid, self-pitying national paranoia after the defeat of 1918." Like MAGA fanatics today (an estimated 20% of the American population), who insist that America is broken, they abandoned critical reasoning.
Back in the seventies Frank Zappa was warning us about American Nazis and his CNN appearance on Crossfire in the '80s warning about fascist theocracy seemed way over the top at the time but he was bang on.
https://youtu.be/B9856_xv8gc?si=rq2wtTS4IwSzmS6C
Frank Zappa got an awful lot of things right. He was perhaps the most self-aware critic of America in the cultural zeitgeist in...maybe ever?
If only his music had been better.
Reminds of MoJo - https://youtu.be/quVZmJFoBaE?si=k0lWmon06BL4QAAD
The effort to make Nazism look normal went well beyond the use of satire or humor. Neal Ascherson has an interesting review in the New York Review of Books of March 27 of eminent Nazi historian Richard Evans' "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich." Hitler's helpers were ordinary Germans who "had been brought up in the culture of rancid, self-pitying national paranoia after the defeat of 1918." Like MAGA fanatics today (an estimated 20% of the American population), who insist that America is broken, they abandoned critical reasoning.