Fascism is an illusory feeling of superiority driven by a dogma

Fascism convinces not through the coherence of its ideas, but through the way it meshes them together: loose, unreal pieces that, combined, give believers the feeling of belonging to an epic truth. It is a dogma that offers a lifeline to those who cannot find one in less grandiose explanations.

## A dogma that does not need to be true

Fascism does not hold up because its tenets withstand rational scrutiny. It holds up because it works as a dogma: a set of pieces that, taken one by one, seem far-fetched, but which, meshed together, give those who adopt them the impression of facing a revealed truth. That is the psychological key to the mechanism. It does not matter that what it defends is, in itself, unreal. What matters is that the individual falls for the epic of the miracle.

The dynamic recalls gestalt: the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Ideas that are wrong in isolation combine to form a coherent whole. Whoever sees themselves reflected in that whole believes they are part of that truth. And there lies the trap: the coherence is not in the pieces, but in the mechanism that joins them.

## The epic of the miracle as a refuge

Fascism offers a lifeline. Faced with a world that does not always make sense, the dogma delivers an epic: the feeling of being part of something great, of a higher truth that explains everything. That promise works even though its content is unreal. The ordinary individual, in need of certainties, clings to it.

The problem is that we come from nature. All truth unfolds from Anthropology, not from a secret plan or a historical mission. That explanation is less epic, but it is the one that holds up. Fascism, on the other hand, lives on the opposite: on turning the unreal into dogma and making people believe that this dogma is the truth.

## Why the mechanism works better than the pieces

None of the ideas that make up fascism is convincing on its own. Its strength lies in the combination. The individual does not adhere to each piece, but to the whole. And that whole acts on human psychology, producing the epic of the miracle: the impression that the small pieces that move one within the chessboard of Nancy ideology combine to form a coherent whole.

There lies the deception. The whole is not coherent because the pieces are. It is coherent because they are meshed to seem so. Whoever understands this stops seeing a miracle and sees a mechanism. And a mechanism, unlike a dogma, can be taken apart.