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A definition including 14 signs every one of which is optional and vague-nonbinary -- is very similar to no definition.

• atoav 4y ago
  So good that it is — in fact — not a definition and never meant to be one. Definitions are too short for that kind of stuff anyways. Read some guy from the stone age the definition for any modern political system and they would not be able to imagine what it means in practise. These 14 points however make it somewhat tangible. Eco also intended them as warning signs people can look at and check whether their own society (or parts thereof) are heading into fascism. You know, completely tl;dr-unimportant stuff that you will totally not regret to have glossed over once your sons are sent into the meatgrinder of the Volkssturm, while your daughters are ordered to breed the next generation of disposable Übermensch /s