Fascinating Fascism

NY Review

Fascist aesthetics include but go far beyond the rather special celebration of the primitive to be found in The Nuba. They also flow from (and justify) a preoccupation with situations of control, submissive behavior, and extravagant effort; they exalt two seemingly opposite states, egomania, and servitude.

As I have said elsewhere, this also applies to the followers of Joseph Smith, 150 years after his death.