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Matt Cahill
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Writer ✒️ of lit novels (Radioland, The Society of Experience) as well as short fiction and essays. Former film + TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice. #Writing #Eredivisie #Music #Film #Psychotherapy #Toronto #lit
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I keep coming back to Paxton’s definition of fascism.

What Is Fascism?
The moment has come to give fascism a usable short handle, even though we know that it encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person.
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
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Sweet! Unfortunately I'm having surgery that day (I know, I know, lame excuse) otherwise I'd make it out.

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Agreed. And rockabilly is really vulnerable guitar work; no pedals, just you, your guitar and (probably) a Fender amp. No room for mistakes.

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Wild film. Gold standard wild.

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Oh, and trees never hurt!

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Exactly. Harbourfront wasn't a disaster, but there was definitely nowhere (easily) to go afterwards

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I think there's a good film buried in Alien 3, but yeah, it's irredeemable otherwise, and this pretty much goes for everything afterward

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Had a good time at Word on the Street. Been a couple of years since I've made the trek, and it's never a bad idea. Great weather and crowd turnout = the publishers were in good spirits. I think sticking to Queen's Park is the best idea. #WOTS#bookTO#TO

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He generalized that there's no point in helping people in trouble because they won't appreciate it and it's pointless. But we all know that one person doing something is just one person. Also ten different people. It's not a trend. Some people doing bad things doesn't mean everyone does.

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It's a betrayal of sorts. Wiping the slate works with Indiana Jones-type serials, but not this.

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Matt Cahill
@mattcahill.bsky.social
Writer ✒️ of lit novels (Radioland, The Society of Experience) as well as short fiction and essays. Former film + TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice. #Writing #Eredivisie #Music #Film #Psychotherapy #Toronto #lit
281 followers276 following703 posts