Step by step, oh baby! (Fascism)

Excerpt from They thought they were free about the gradual changes in Germany that culminated in atrocities. Comparisons between anything current and 1930 Nazis falls under Godwin’s law, but it’s a shining example of what a slippery slope looks like.

Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it.

As with so many other articles I link to, this one showed up in a reference over at Metafilter.

Also, my brother and his woman visited Gothenburg this weekend.

Neat illustration

I’m helping my dad out finding online bookstores, and I stumbled upon a really nice book cover on a Taiwanese site. Don’t know what it’s for or who did the illustration, but I share, I share until it hurts:

The first one to identify the author, title of the book and illustrator gets bragging rights and maybe a handjob some pizza.

The original page is here.