Defining Fascism

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Reading about it -- vicarious experience -- is not a substitute for actual experience, Ibbie. Too, what colors your perceptions is what you read, and frankly, from the sort of things you say, it looks to me like you're reading things that would do better spread in a flowerbed and well Roto-tillered in.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You don't have to check under the bed at night . . . like UG does.

Last time I checked under the bed, I was looking for the cat. Don't seek to find fear in my thinking unless you truly love frustration served up with disappointment. That and becoming a laughingstock. Hard on the ego, all that.

I second the 1984 recommendation. While it's really a twentieth-century period piece now, its universal truths still hold and its lessons are still valuable.