Yes, there are wayward children who need an education about fascism. But not because they are in some vacuum of senae. What has also happened since WWII is there are now wayward adults who are labeling things fascist that aren’t. So children are confused because there are some legitimate points of confusion. “Anti-fascism means burning cars?” “Voting for Trump means someone is a fascist?” These are not trivial ideas that appear neatly resolved to the mind of a child. They are things we must give children space to understand.

And the existence of those conversations on the internet with innocent children taking either side is not a sign of the downfall of civilization—or even the downfall of the internet. It’s the kids racing ahead through Hegelian dialectics, deconstructing ideas that many adults are either too smart or too afraid to deconstruct.

But the internet is deconstructing everything, fractally painting and repainting the universe inside every idea. A whole universe inside My Little Pony. A whole universe inside Planetary physics. And yes, a whole universe within facism. With fascist candy canes. It is splintering and cataloging all of human consciousness, and then every idea will be animated in AI form.

That should terrify you, but not because fascism will be back. It should terrify you because all culture will be detached from its embodiment like a crab from its shell.