Inner Journey with Greg Friedman and Fascism

All right, y'all.

Tonight, we are going to focus on fascism.

I wonder if anybody can guess why.

We have a world that cycles around with patterns.

Just like us.

Human beings will come up to a fork in the road.

And in one direction...

We're going to have the familiar thing that we've done a gazillion times before, whether it's healthy or unhealthy.

And the other direction is going to be something different.

There's no promise of light, shadow, good, bad, any of that.

The only promise is it's going to be different.

And what we do as humans and what we do as a human race is essentially the same thing.

We're going to repeat the pattern and repeat the pattern and repeat the pattern until that one day where we decide it's time.

It's time to understand that you have to take a leap.

You have to have faith.

And what has been proven is no longer sating us.

What has been proven is is no longer gratifying.

And I do what I often do when I'm exploring a subject.

I'll go back to the etymology of the word.

I'll try to trace it back to its root form.

I do that because very often there is dimension in the simplicity of the expression of the root.

And fascism actually comes from the Latin fasces, which is a bundle of wood rods that's typically including a protruding axe.

You know, I think if you got that visual while I was saying it, a bunch of wooden rods with an axe coming out of the top of it.

That's very, very, very accurate for what it feels like to be subjected to fascism.

It's beaten over the head or shoved up some of the wazoo, whatever it may be.