I am happy that I lived in the 2 centuries that actually embraced democracy. Before it was kings, dukes, bishops and popes, After it will be CEOs and Shareholders
Looks like the majority of people just want to be ruled so they don't have to think themselves and always have someone they can blame for their misery.
It's true that there's been many social improvements over course of the last century, but the trajectory over centuries has been to the detriment of dictators.
I don't think ppl want to be ruled so much as we just keep making the mistake of letting dictators take control before knocking them down and restoring order again.
Absolutely, but they have the 'Better to ask forgiveness than permission' mindset, and people don't realise what's happening until it's too late.
People do realize.
And they don't mind.
On the contrary...
Yes! Most.of them don't care about facts
They care about feelings. And that's what dictators provide.
Facts are complicated. Feelings are easy.
You may well be right, but history suggests that people will 'wake up' and fight to change things.....eventually. I guess that's why the fascists weaponised 'woke'.
Does it? People will "wake up" when their own life is severely negatively affected. So as long as you are able to not severely affect the life of the majority (and that does not need to be a huge majority) no one will raise!
And yes! "severely affected" can depend on the nationality...
But in general: Dumb and poor people are easier to rule. So make sure to keep them dumb and poor....
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I think so. Would-be dictators learn from their predecessors' failures.
Agree on what you say about the poor, and that ties with the observation that change tends to occur when the middle classes are affected. The trajectory seems to be one of making the middle classes gradually poorer to reduce their power. The problem with the plan is an over-reliance on nationalism (which worked) and religious zeal that no longer exists in Western Europe.
The religious zeal still exists from what I see. The church of the masses might though have moved on to the one of Mercedes, Audi and BMW or AI or "Climate change is fake" or whatever else people will come up with to divert the masses and keep them occupied... 😁
"Don't look up"
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True, consumerism isn't going anywhere (:
Over here we have what looks like an entirely-contrived Christian conversion of Tommeh Robinson who has apparently found God in prison. I still can't see it landing in post-Christian Western Europe, and even the large numbers of religious citizens of other faiths won't help much because that runs counter to the nationalist rhetoric.
Brian Jopek
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