...any remotely honest portrayal of a world stripped of the vestiges of a functioning social and political is going to be 'fascist' in its values. And why would it not be? Nature is 'fascist.' The laws of physics are 'fascist.' Reality is fascist. Fascism is the baseline: consensual, altruistic democracy is the deviation from the norm, a deviation made possible only by temporary material abundance and the mass delusion that it is rooted in something other than force or the threat of force.