A Squire’s Trial

- So, you mean truth comes from some higher power that
created everything, like God?
- Something along those lines.
This was certainly an interesting conversation as I’d never
heard these arguments before, even in college. However, once
again, I had to remind myself that this man is a self-proclaimed
fascist, and that none of this was really related to what
I know of Fascism and Nazism. The Toreros weren’t some lofty
discussions club, they were violent thugs, and apparently he
and they are in the same boat. He even mentioned that the
other fascists he was with were “pirates” who left immigrants
stranded in the sea. What of the racism, the war-mongering,
the atrocities and violence, the totalitarianism – all that anyone
I’ve ever known associated with fascism? How does any of
this ‘truth and lies’ philosophy connect with something so vile?
- But wait, we’ve gone very far off track; I’m still no closer to
understanding why you are a fascist, and it feels like all of this
has little or nothing to do with fascism.
- And had I tried to tell you what fascism is without all that
we have discussed up to this point, you wouldn’t have understood
me. I had told you that Truth is my master. I do not wish
to comply with man-made ideas, instead I stand as someone
who champions truth. That is what Fascism is all about. One
great man once said: “You either believe in the truth, and apply
it to yourself without egotism, otherwise you don't believe
in it and you’re kidding yourself.” This is precisely what
makes fascism different from everything else – it seeks to apply
truth to human life, regardless of what that means for any
individual or group: no egotism, no shallow interests, no entitlement.
Everything else, all the ideologies and systems, are
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