Via Digg labs, this Guardian article by Naomi Wolf. Excerpt:
It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile of barbed wire against the sky. In the early days, things look normal on the surface; peasants were celebrating harvest festivals in Calabria in 1922; people were shopping and going to the movies in Berlin in 1931. Early on, as WH Auden put it, the horror is always elsewhere – while someone is being tortured, children are skating, ships are sailing: “dogs go on with their doggy life … How everything turns away/ Quite leisurely from the disaster.”
Don’t look at me, I didn’t say anything. It was her.
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What a paranoid disclaimer! So much through implication, so little time…
Eric! update your blog! Your public needs you!