Fascism Is a System, Not a Villain | Creators in Context (Deep Dive)
Fascism is often portrayed as dramatic, villain-driven, and obvious — something you recognize only after it has already won.
In this Creators in Context Deep Dive, Crisis in Perception examines how fascism actually forms and persists: not through spectacle, but through interconnected systems — law, bureaucracy, media, capital, and cultural myth.
Drawing on a contemporary argument by A-L-I-M-C Forever, this episode places modern political commentary in dialogue with foundational works by Robert O. Paxton, Jason Stanley, Hannah Arendt, and Noam Chomsky.
Rather than asking who the villain is…
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