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Patriotism 1966
“Death is no longer terrifying. Reiko feels as she did on her wedding night.”
Everybody wants to be a fascist. The truth is, everybody already is one. Man is a hierarchical creature—— there are the strong and there are the weak. Mishima, ever the man of aesthetics, tells us that there is beauty in this hierarchy.
I have always admired the masculine, much like Mishima. Order is a masculine virtue, just as the tendency to classify is a masculine trait.…
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