Capitalist and Fascist Culture, Left and Right 

  Capitalist culture's attitudes toward the biological body may not indicate a rejection of simple biological facts like birth and death, but does seem to deny any link between such facts and what meanings may constitute our sense of self and world. It does seem committed to denying that anything inherent to the life of the flesh should condition any cultural understanding or norm regarding birth, sexuality, birth, death. Why do I think this? In this social form, it is not so much that our only access to nature is by means of “discourses,” but that nature is nothing but an "effect of discourse."  [You can substitute "narrative" or "construct" for "discourse" - same thing.] And discourses are all in some way implicated in the striving for power – that is, are potential moralities justifying some life forms, rejecting others. Thus if we want to live in a reality with 72 genders, we can. If we want to live in a reality in which Trump is a demigod and the rightful president, while the rest of the country is an evil swamp, we can. Constructing reality to suit your will. 

      What is real is relative to an individual or a group. It doesn't condition how we live; we are inclined to live this way or that way, choose to identify with this or that - and then tailor our constructs of reality to justify it. It doesn't make any sense within this culture to question your life choices - if choices they are - by referring them to an independent reality. Referring choices to reality is one discourse among others. Ultimately it is just a personal attack on your identity and lifestyle choices since there is no objective reality, at least outside of natural science and math (for some, not even there).

     Compare to Mussolini:

 

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.

 

I think it is an essential feature of fascism that it denies reality (i.e. is insane) - that it denies reality in the deeper sense that it reduces all possible reality to human constructs and nothing more. The idea of non-reducible reality is itself a human construct. It does this in order to impose its fantasies of power and godlike omnipotence onto nature and human nature. Left fascism, right fascism, the same. Without reality as a measure and a limit, anything goes. 

      Reality comes down to what is intelligible to us, what ultimately makes sense.  In most cases, we have to understand reality, interpret it - like a book. Perhaps their are different readings of reality that are plausible. We can talk about these readings only with reference to the book, to reality. Our readings must make sense of the book, of reality.  We cannot impose our readings onto reality, as though it were an inkblot. Reality talks back to us if we would only stop and listen.