"Dictators, in reality, thrive not on love but on indifference...they feed off the tepid responses to violence and the thousands of daily compromises that citizens choose to survive.

[meganl@mas.to]

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"Dictators, in reality, thrive not on love but on indifference...they feed off the tepid responses to violence and the thousands of daily compromises that citizens choose to survive. Most people in wartime Berlin, Buruma writes, were “neither cynics, nor bullies, nor ideological fanatics; they simply conformed.” Their story, he suggests, is a warning about the “temptation to look away” amid the drift toward autocracy." #Fascism