Timed Writing 031208

wow
what's going on?
a definite stretch of
"too much househusband"
writing's been weird. uneven. how to i reign it in? if i'm using the "painting model" what's the equivalent of looking at it a lot?
printing it out? making an ongoing book?
what?

interesting reading LIBERAL FASCISM. even embarrassed to show J the cover, that's it's too strident, too "rush limbaugh" (feminazi)... namecalling that closes down communication.
having said that
it's a fascinating story
about WHY "we" have a hard time understanding fascism, because it's inaccurate to
call it "right wing"
the logic is this-- (not wholly unfounded) that the "right" likes CONTROL (ie. moral majority sort of non-libertarianism) and generally favors MILITARY (solutions) as in paranoia, everyone's out to get us (where the left of today favors "talking" the therapy approach)
so it's not totally nuts to call fascism right wing as these are components.

still
economically there is NOTHING like capitalism or freedom
and there is a disdain for rules of government (today more associated with the left as in
"disenfranchisement" and stolen elections, etc.)

the guts of his argument is that fascism is a "state religion" and a lot of the personality cult stuff we're seeing around Obama now is very reminiscent of the "strong leader" (craving) that SEEMS to be the ultimate appeal of fascism. [He does mention that we MIGHT be hard-wired to want a "king" which makes the whole argument about the evolution of democracy cast in a strange light]...
nevetheless
it does explain the APPEAL of liberalism. i often "don't get it" where they get their ENERGY from. they want (intrusive) rules that can be enforced only they want them to be THEIR rules (organic food to mass transit)...
also
historically
the left has been the pro-sex party (even today with the Elliot Spitzer scandal breaking, a lot of people are using the "clinton defense" hey, it's ONLY sex. grow up, etc.).
[the vignette comes to mind of IlDuce asking the women of Italy to send him their wedding rings to help pay off Italy's war fines. whoa.]
Putin and the russians have always had this sort of double standard ("free and equal" women but the men prove their right to rule through virility, ie. fucking (over) women)
in any case
the history of the early progressive movement and the amount of admiration so many had for mussolini and fascism
[wonder how ezra pound got blamed for it. the story i always heard was that he was 'crazy' as well as talented and that's why he ended up supporting fascism and being anti-semitic) BUT
many famous writers (ts elliot) were anti-semitic and still we read them and revere them as moderns. pound got 'pounded' because he stuck to his like of mussolini which was shared (PRIOR to WWII) by a vast number of america's leading "progressive" intellectuals.

my book cover was damaged
i'm sure it was from a seattle based warehouse rat (doing his part).. i HOPE my second book (i rationalized buying one mostly to see if i'm caught up in an amazon conspiracy)
is also damaged.