The Neverending War

    Ideas are truly eternal. They live far past the person or people who accessed them and brought them into reality. As a result, the warfare and conflict between the followers of those ideas never truly end

      It is a tragedy, but we must face the truth. We are still at war with fascism. We are still at war with communism. We are still at war with extremism, terrorism, hate, and fear, no matter how far into the future we progress.

      When we win a war, we only end the bloodshed of that immediate conflict, but so begins the process of containment and subduing of the adversarial ideology that was responsible for the disruption of the order of the world and the balance of power at the time. Since ideas never die, containment is an endless process.

Unfortunately, containment can only last so long, and the adversarial ideology simply restructures itself and makes itself more appealing to a new potential host, and then it begins its assault on your established system again. Ideas can evolve, and they often evolve with the changes in technology and culture of their target audience.

         Fascism will never identify itself as fascism again because of the stigma associated with that word. That ideology will recycle itself in a way that can more easily deceive and more easily appeal to a new audience. Neither will other ideologies like communism. These ideas will soften themselves down to become more appealing. 

      However, you always know extremist ideologies by their fruits, and the fruits of extremism is usually death and destruction, no matter how much they butter up would-be believers and soften themselves down.

Unfortunately, because of the timelessness of certain information like complex ideas, the war against extremism, and essentially the war against evil, never ends. It will only end when the world does.

      Economic collapses, social unrest, and the feelings of victimhood or subjugation create the environment necessary for extremism to take root in the minds of people. It usually does so by providing a scapegoat to blame society's problems on, riling up hatred towards the targeted group, and then advocating for and pursuing the targeted group's destruction

      This is a cycle that has happened time and again since as far as history has been documented. Just like hate never really went away, neither has extremist ideologies. They often make a resurgence, once a system has been destabilized by things like pandemics or economic collapses.