“Many people still treat peace as something that comes by chance or divine intervention. In reality, it depends on civic culture. It requires populations capable of managing conflict without violence and of living with disagreement without turning it into hatred. That is not a passive condition. It has to be cultivated.”

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When citizens stop thinking: stupidity as a political force - UPI.com

Why do leaders, and the societies that follow them, so often misjudge reality so badly? And why does that failure keep recurring, across generations?

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