The Truth, Not Myth

Fascism doesn’t start with dictators — it starts with  everyday conversations  that normalise hate, fear, and control: 👉  What is Fascism? Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian political system that thrives on: ✅ Extreme nationalism ✅ Scapegoating minorities ✅ Glorifying a “mythical past” ✅ Rejecting democracy and civil rights ✅ Crushing dissent and controlling information ⭐️ It often starts with small, familiar comments that seem harmless at first — but they lay the groundwork for dangerous ideas. 🔸 When people say things like: ➡️ “Immigrants are ruining this country.” ➡️ “We need a strong leader to fix everything.” ➡️ “We should go back to the way things used to be.” ➡️ “Free speech is dead." 👉 These aren’t just opinions, they’re signs of fascist thinking creeping into everyday life. 👀  Everyday Scapegoating and Division  This is how people are manipulated into turning against each other: 👉  Scapegoating and Division: “Immigrants are taking all our...

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about a piece of 1960s mouse sociology . (A sentence I never thought I’d write. And yet, here we are.) It all started when I was at home, doomscrolling on Instagram , and a video about a mouse utopia hijacked my feed. In 1968, an ethologist named John B. Calhoun built a perfect world. He called it “ Universe 25 .” It was a sterile Eden , engineered for perfection: unlimited food, no predators, no disease. Its purpose was to answer a haunting question. What happens when all the old struggles vanish? The result was a catastrophe. The population surged, but society did not. Calhoun documented the unraveling: “The social organisation of the animals showed equal disruption… The one activity most rapidly disrupted was the emergence of organised maternal behaviour.” Mothers abandoned their pups. The enclosure was filled with bodies, yet it was utterly emptied of purpose. He called this collapse the “ behavioural sink ,” a process that “collects anima...

Most people imagine history like a toy train on a track. The train moves forward, yesterday, today, tomorrow, and many believe it is heading towards a better future. They think the world keeps improving over time, one smooth stop after another. But Walter Benjamin says, “Hold on, that’s not quite right.” He tells us that history is not a straight, happy track. Instead, it is more like standing in front of a huge pile of broken toys. Every toy in the pile represents something that went wrong in the past, such as wars, unfair treatment, or people who suffered and were forgotten. That pile is what the past really looks like when we stop and pay attention. Benjamin describes an “Angel of History” who sees this sad pile and wants to stop and fix it, to help the people who were hurt. But a strong wind called “progress” keeps pushing the angel forward, away from the wreckage and towards the future. The angel cannot stop to help because the world just keeps rushing ahead. Benjamin’s p...

The true measure of moral character is not how one behaves under scrutiny, but what one does when no one is watching. As Plato warned in  The Republic , “The measure of a man is what he does when no one is watching.” This principle underpins the so-called “ shopping trolley test ”,  a deceptively simple test of conscience: will you return the trolley when no one will reward or punish you for doing so? Israel fails this test spectacularly. With over 50,000 civilians dead in Gaza, entire neighbourhoods levelled, and a decades-long apartheid system documented by Amnesty International as “a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity,” Israel’s actions reveal not simply moral failure, but the total abandonment of ethical restraint. And unlike the shopping trolley, this test is not theoretical. It leaves real children starving. It buries real families beneath rubble. Plato’s parable of the Ring of Gyges , in which a man becomes invisible and thus unaccountable, re...