>>17790143
>The far right are buffoons who dont realize that fascism is not traditionalist, it is futurist. Hitler didnt want to go back to the past, he wanted to burn everything to the ground and build a new order.
I think it was contradictory because you're right, but it was also about restoring something that had been lost as well. I see it as a radical reaction to the onrush of modernity, democracy, and secularism (like how one can now freely choose what to believe). The Nazis seemed to believe this was causing civilization to collapse, but out of that collapse would come a revival of the German spirit like a phoenix reborn from the fire. Nazism was a purification movement (purification of the race) and also an ersatz religion. You see something that echoes this in radical Islamic ideologies an attempt to purify the religion in reaction to traditional Islam struggling to adapt to the modern world. But in fact, even Islamic societies are not as Islamic as they used to be.

It's like a reaction to the "death of God." People lost a certain metaphysical canopy that ordered their lives and societies and which provided meaning to them. The rapid change occurring in Europe at that time along with the shattering experience of World War I tore that canopy open, which was frightening, and they fled from the responsibilites the new modern world was demanding of them into the arms of Hitler, who promised to build a new canopy in the place of the old one and give them a sense of meaning and purpose back. But there is no canopy and ultimately it's up to us to define our own values. The modern credo is like "think for yourself." But that's hard and it hurts and it's painful. It'd be much nicer if we could just empty our minds and worship something:
https://youtu.be/oYZjNdKH6s8