Proof that books from my personal library, once read, are often revisited.

The recurring theme is that men must be awakened from the comfortable nightmare we call life, or what Hillary Clinton in her youth described as "the sleeping sickness of our soul." We are all "slaves" to the "IKEA nesting instinct," according to the protagonist of Fight Club, a film whose fascist pretensions have been so well discussed there's no need to revisit them here. The idea that the slumbering masses must be roused from their doldrums is central to Fascism. Marinetti's first Futurist manifesto begins, "Up to now, literature has exalted a pensive immobility, ecstasy, and sleep. We intend to exalt aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer's stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap." The pamphlet that first attracted a young Adolf Hitler to National Socialism was titled "My Political Awakening." Pro-Nazi and pre-fascist films and novels often shared a common premise of somnolent young men roused from their passive acceptance of the machine of Western bourgeois democracy.

When Jonah revises Liberal Fascism he may need to re-write that passage to include Michelle Obama.

Michelle Obama: Barack is the only man who can "heal" this nation and "fix our souls"

Limestone Commentary
I have a theory that Hollywood (writer(s) specifically) play a little game where they exchange carbon credits with each other every time they sneak in some overplayed anti-Bush dig. I saw Get Smart this weekend and the stereotypes were so utterly tired. Do you fellas out there in Hollywood have an ounce of creativity left?

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