It’s similar to and often overlaps with features of fascism, but it’s a distinct thing. Empire brings a sense of pride and power even to people who gain no material benefit, but those people cannot separate recognition that the state’s freedom to act is not limitless from personal disempowerment.

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So late empire becomes defined by children of empire, who have been psychologically stunted by empire as an answer to childish frustration and anger, gaining power and winding up at war with reality because they react with defiance to the mere suggestion of compromise or restraint.
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