I think people are just not very good at pattern recognition. The world has seen parallel aspects of the forces that resulted in the holocaust many times in the last 70+ years. The Chinese Cultural Revolution. The genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan... "But we aren't anything like those places." might well be a reasonable defens…
I think people are just not very good at pattern recognition. The world has seen parallel aspects of the forces that resulted in the holocaust many times in the last 70+ years. The Chinese Cultural Revolution. The genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan... "But we aren't anything like those places." might well be a reasonable defense in terms of superficial details, except it really "isn't" the details that are important: it's the patterns. The movement of the societal energy if you will. It also seems to me that this really isn't even a Left/Right movement anymore; it's just that the Left is more articulate about the "program." Both ends of the spectrum have devolved into conspiracy theories, and non-scientific magical thinking. Neither seems to want to read much real history either....
I think people are just not very good at pattern recognition. The world has seen parallel aspects of the forces that resulted in the holocaust many times in the last 70+ years. The Chinese Cultural Revolution. The genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan... "But we aren't anything like those places." might well be a reasonable defense in terms of superficial details, except it really "isn't" the details that are important: it's the patterns. The movement of the societal energy if you will. It also seems to me that this really isn't even a Left/Right movement anymore; it's just that the Left is more articulate about the "program." Both ends of the spectrum have devolved into conspiracy theories, and non-scientific magical thinking. Neither seems to want to read much real history either....