13 June

One of the enduring symbols of fascism is thousands of troops goose-stepping in perfect unison. The origins of fascism are societies which reach a ‘mimetic crisis’. Meaning that everybody begins copying everybody else, past a certain tipping point. Then they act as one dumb mob. The most worrying KPI for any society is the level of imitation going on. It starts out seeming like fun times. But you’ve then primed the pump. What the crowd imitates then becomes interchangeable. You can literally produce an entire nation of ‘copycat killers’.