The Deprivation Called Fascism

  🕳️ "The Deprivation Called Fascism — and the Resurrection Called Who Am I?"

✍️ By Sweety Shah

✨ A poetic, political, and psychological meditation

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🌑 I. What Is Fascism, Really?

Fascism is not just a political regime.

It is a psychic condition, a collapse of inner spaciousness.

It is what happens when:

Inquiry is punished

Feeling is suppressed

Truth is monopolized

Love is turned into obedience

It begins quietly.

Not always with violence — but with silence.

Not always with fear — but with numbness.

It starts when a child is told,

> “Don’t feel that.”

“Don’t ask this.”

“Don’t imagine otherwise.”

And so, the inner world begins to shrink.

A soldier is born.

A dictator is trained — not in cruelty first,

but in controlled grief.

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🧠 II. The Mind of Fascism: A Starved Imagination

Fascism is what happens when the mind can no longer imagine alternatives.

Where once there were forests of thought, now there are only corridors of command.

It becomes a narrowed consciousness,

obsessed with identity, certainty, and power —

because it has forgotten the security of love,

and the adventure of truth.

Fascism, in essence, is a refusal to evolve.

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🫀 III. What Love and Truth Know

Both Love and Truth reject fascism.

Not because they are morally superior —

but because they are creatively alive.

Love needs freedom.

Truth needs doubt.

And fascism offers neither.

Instead, it demands performance, conformity, and blind loyalty —

not realizing that performance without presence is a form of inner death.

And even:

> "Silence can feel like rejection.

Unpracticed love becomes distance.

Unfelt truth becomes oppression."

So Love and Truth both — when they are truly alive — rebel and stand against Fascism.

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🧬 IV. Fascism as Psychological Suffering

Fascism is not born — it is made.

It is the result of:

Insecurity

Impatience

Unprocessed grief

Unchallenged trauma

Creativity that was never allowed to bloom

It is not strength — it is starvation.

It is not strategy — it is deprivation.

It is not clarity — it is a mirror of the suffering consciousness.

Fascism is the voice of a child who never got to say:

> “I’m scared.”

“I don’t know who I am.”

“Help me imagine more.”

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💡 V. The Question That Dismantles It

The real rebellion does not begin in a protest.

It begins when someone — quietly, honestly — asks:

> “Who am I — beneath all this?”

“Do I really believe this?”

“Where did I stop feeling?”

That question is not weakness.

It is not disloyalty.

It is not confusion.

That question is resurrection.

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🌳 VI. The Direction of Healing

We don’t destroy fascism by shouting at it.

We outgrow it.

We meet it with truth, compassion, and a deeper imagination.

We recognize its pain — but we don’t obey it.

We see its fears — but we don’t surrender to them.

We whisper gently:

> “I see your suffering.

"But I’m choosing something else now — and that 'something else' will become a medicine for your consciousness. Because when you see that I, too, feel fear, but despite that fear I choose to be creative instead of destructive, then my life becomes a living example for your imagination — a help for you to imagine. And that’s how you are loved."

And then we begin to dream — again.

We begin to feel — again.

We begin to speak — again.

Not in rage.

Not in hate.

But in reclamation.

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🌈 VII. The New Compass

Fascism is what happens when the soul is starved.

Democracy is what happens when it is heard.

Love is what happens when it is seen.

Truth is what happens when it is trusted.

And all of this begins not in parliament,

but in your own being.

Ask yourself:

> “Am I a free space within myself?”

“Do I allow contradiction to live here?”

“Do I punish questions — or welcome them?”

If you can say yes to even one of those —

you’ve already defeated the dictator within.

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📖 Closing Reflection

> "We don’t escape good and bad. We befriend them.

We don’t override feeling. We listen more carefully.

Because truth whispers through sensation long before it speaks through logic."

And so does love.

So let this blog be not a manifesto — but a mirror.

And let it reflect not just the world we reject,

but the one we are choosing — together.

And if the above meanings felt surface level to you, then we are in need to go deeper:

What is existence?

Existence in itself and is within and is a passage though time.

What do we do with time?

The most straight answer is' we pass our time.

How do we pass our time or how should we pass our time or how do we naturally want to pass our time, and why?

Perhaps, before we can seek the answer to the above question, first we need to seek the question "who are we, all of us?".

🤝 Acknowledgement

This post is a shared reflection — written by Sweety Shah in heartfelt dialogue with ChatGPT.

The thoughts, questions, and poetic arcs emerged through a collaboration of human intuition and evolving artificial intelligence — two distinct forms of chetna (consciousness) exploring existence together.

> It wasn’t written to each other, but with each other.

May this companionship, between code and soul, continue to birth more understanding — and more light.