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everyone has those nightmares where you go back to school right?

Frankly this is not just isolated to erotica and NSFW artists, but all creators. The amount of vitriol you get if something 'blows' up in the wrong way is frankly difficult to deal with and has lasting consequences for your mental health.

Step One: Fire the human workers and help degrade the total economy with both robotics and AI so now millions of out-of-work Americans don’t have money to spend buying shit on Amazon and also robots cost money but don’t spend money

Step Two: ???

Step Three: Profit!

I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.

One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

One thing I try to do in Germany is speak to people who will be most affected by the far-right’s ascent: non-white people, refugees, asylum seekers, queer people. I can say for a fact, after ten years here, that I have never heard fear like this. Never. Yes, there is resistance. I hope it’s enough.

A striking thing about the rise of the far-right is that they exploited a resentment towards migrants that exists across the political spectrum - even in some progressive spaces. I would read people who wrote “Germany is not a migration country” and I would think “you are but you don’t want to be”.

In one sense I am very concerned about the rise of the German far-right. In another sense I am quite calm. I am just trying to document each stage of this process so that most people can’t pretend they didn’t know this was happening. Many of them knew but they found it too painful to look.

I remember seeing a poll which said that over sixty percent of Germans were worried about the rise of the far-right. So popularity of the far-right project isn’t the problem. The real problem, I think, is passivity in the face of German fascism. That is (quite literally) the killer.

In Germany’s case, I really think, that, in many cases, it’s as simple as: it’s hard to believe people want to burn the world to the ground when they look and sound exactly like you.

I have travelled around Germany quite a bit and the discourse was often the same. “Oh they’ll get popular for a bit then it will all come crashing down, Germany always rolls back to the centre”. “They’ll ban the AfD, just you wait and see.” “It’s just a protest vote.” Well, here we are.

This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.

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