Friendly Fascism — How Power Consolidates Without Looking Like Tyranny (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores Friendly Fascism by Bertram Gross as a systems-level reflection on how democracy can erode without dramatic collapse. Through corporate-government partnerships, surveillance technologies, and managed public discourse, power consolidates while remaining socially acceptable.
Rather than framing authoritarianism as a sudden takeover, the book reveals how it can grow gradually—through incentives, dependence, and disengagement.
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