“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep…The sounds of junk culture are heard over a ground bass of extremism. Our entertainments swarm with specters of world crisis. Nothing moderate can have any claim to our attention.”
Saul Bellow
“The common elements of fascism — extreme nationalism, social Darwinism, the leadership principle, elitism, anti-liberalism, anti-egalitarianism, anti-democracy, intolerance, glorification of war, the supremacy of the state and anti-intellectualism — together form a rather loose doctrine. Fascism emphasises action rather than theory, and fascist theoretical writings are always weak.”
Ian Adams
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
Saul Bellow