Another is taking a risk: stand up, or at a minimum, do not surrender to the crowds or lazy thinking. Another is language and truth: seek it, pay for it, respect it. One is community: defend and participate in it.
While there are 20 ideas/lessons/chapter, the book really has a couple of themes. I enjoyed all the chapters, and like in a nice restaurant with small portions, my major complaint was I was still hungry when I finished. It is also meant to highlight early signs of tyranny in government and media. It isn't meant to be comprehensive, but more of a hornbook for resisting movements away from democracy and towards fascism. In easily digestible chapters (twenty, obviously) Snyder seeks to use lessons from the rise of Fascism (and Totalitarianism) to assist readers in this current moment globally. Snyder, the Levin professor of history at Yale, delivers a short and powerful primer on resisting fascism/tyranny in the 21st Century, using the rise of fascism in 20th Century as a guide.
History does not repeat, but it does instruct.ĭr.
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