The Mask of Fascism

The Mask of Fascism

Some of the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been wearing the Guy Fawkes mask from the film V for Vendetta. I think this is appropriate. I have not read the graphic novel on which the movie is based and make no comment on it, but the film itself, which wears the mask of a liberating screed, is in fact one of the most purely fascist American films ever made. It is a despicable apologia for murderous violence against free institutions, and presents a pitifully unrealistic rationalization for some of the most oppressive ideas currently in vogue.

Like all leftist art, V for Vendetta achieves its occasionally powerful effects by re-writing reality to fit the upside-down progressive imagination. For instance, the film suggests Christianity lies at the heart of political oppression. But in Realworld, no matter what you might like to believe, the simple fact is that Christianity has been in on the ground floor of every truly free society on earth since the fall of Rome. (The one arguable exception is Israel — go figure.) The film depicts the west’s war with Islamo-fascism as an Orwellian mix of racist propaganda and eternal mock-warfare. That in itself is an Orwellian lie. Whatever its merits as a religious philosophy, Islam has produced violent and oppressive states since its beginning — and was oppressive even in its cultural heyday, now almost nine centuries ago. It’s difficult to imagine any genuine vision of a free world that does not include the suppression of Islam’s violent extremists.

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[Mongo53]

Well, I didn't get a call for Fascism or Fascist endorsement as a message when I watched V for Vendetta.

True, it was a Liberal Intellectual Masterbation piece. Only the radical leftist were the ones that tried to prevent Western Society becoming George Orwell's 1984, which happened due obviously from the Conservatives and Christians.

BUT, it takes place in the future and "V" was fighting the future institutions, that had gone from being free to being oppressive and totaliterrian.

I find more amusing, "V" wears the Guy Fawkes mask, assumingly because Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament, which "V" succeeds in doing.

BUT, we have a bunch of morons wearing Guy Fawkes masks, that never bothered to find out who Guy Fawkes was.

So let me understand this? OWS is about overthrowing the government and installing a Catholic Theorcracy in it place?

OR

Is OWS full of morons that will actually put on a mask from some ridiculous movie and NOT even bother checking what the actual history or meaning of what they are wearing?