What can we learn from fascism?

Question from the Internet:

“What are the key elements of fascism that we all should work against?”

“The word fascism comes from fascio, the Italian word for bundle, which in this case represents bundles of people.”

Fascism is based on connecting people together for a common cause. At first sight, this does not sound bad or evil. After all, connection and mutual cooperation are the foundation of life in Nature. And especially in our days, when the whole world has become a single, globally integrated and interdependent bundle, everything depends on the quality of the connections between individuals and nations.

The problem with fascism — and usually any other form of connection we form in this world — is that it is based on the hatred of others. We try to unite against common enemies; we unite in order to harm, control or destroy others.

This is true to fascism, but it is also true to any other alliance, cooperation, commando or even sports team in the world we created based on our inherently selfish, egocentric and exploitative nature.

What we need to learn from fascism — and from all other forms of “unity” we pursue — is that as long as our basis and intention for connection are negative, its result will not be life or anything positive. Its result will be death and destruction, even for those who want to unite in the first place.

As long as we act blindly, following our inherent nature, we remain self-destructive until we truly consume and destroy everything like cancer.

This has nothing to with any of our arbitrary human ideologies, “isms”, or philosophies. As long as our aim is to control or destroy others, we are acting against the laws of Nature that govern the general balance and homeostasis in Nature that life depends on.

And as long as we go against nature’s laws that obligate us, we punish and destroy ourselves like a fool that jumps off a high cliff thinking that the law of gravity does not apply to him.

We need to learn the opposite of fascism, to unite for the sake of everybody, to bring well-being and optimal development to everyone in a totally selfless and unconditional way — exactly how unity and cooperation work in Nature. We need to learn from Nature how to reform, adjust and further develop ourselves until we will be able to mutually integrate with each other as Nature does.