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Thinking is a form of emasculation

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Marco Rubio’s journey from Principled Republican Opponent of Trumpian Irrationality and Demagoguery to ball-gagged gimp in a business suit has been really inspiring to watch:

Ultimately, once the President makes a decision, his instincts are uncanny, and we have to appreciate that that’s one of the things the people of the United States voted for is a President who has incredible instincts about the right thing to do.  And our job is to operationalize that.  When he says this is the direction I want to go, our job is not to spend all day trying to change his mind.  Once he’s made a decision, our job is to go out and make sure the President’s orders are executed on.  That’s the way administrations work.

When administrations fail is when you’re filled or surrounded by people who don’t agree with you, and so no matter what the president orders, spend their time trying to undermine him.  We have a President who’s been elected.  He’s been – very clearly – I mean, as clear as anyone who’s ever been elected – outlined how – what his views are on everything, including foreign policy.  That’s what the people of our country voted for.  That’s how our republic works.  And our job is to go out and operationalize, execute on the President’s vision based on really uncanny instincts. 

Instincts are the opposite of thoughts, and thoughts are bad because fascism worships acting without thinking.

Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.”

Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism” (1995)

The other aspect of all this cult of personality groveling by extremely high status people with less sense of personal dignity than a meth-addicted streetwalker is their understanding that Trump is a truly bottomless void of narcissistic neediness. Hence the unending obsession with prizes, and awards, and TV ratings, and golf trophies etc. etc. A friend reminded me yesterday of Trump’s incandescent rage when The Apprentice (fuck you Mark Burnett, you’re one of the five people on that Pinochet helicopter AFAIC) didn’t get an Emmy one year.

Awards! They do nothing but give out awards! I can’t believe it. Greatest . . . greatest fascist dictator, Adolph Hitler!

Annie Hall (1977)

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