[b]Timothy Snyder
Crucially, though, the peasants had few guns, and poor organization.[/b]
Well, that hasn’t changed.
If we can avoid doing violence to the minds of unseen others on the internet, others will learn to do the same. And then perhaps our internet traffic will cease to look like one, great bloody accident.
I know: Let’s start here!
Most of us would like to think that we possess a “moral instinct.” Perhaps we imagine that we would be rescuers in some future catastrophe. Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well.
With survival itself at stake? Say no more.
Hitler was not a German nationalist, sure of German victory, aiming for an enlarged German state. He was a zoological anarchist who believed that there was a true state of nature to be restored.
Never heard that one before.
The Jewish barbers, who cut the hair of thousands of women, remembered the beautiful ones.
Is that a good thing?
We find it natural that we pay for a plumber or a mechanic, but demand our news for free. If we did not pay for plumbing or auto repair, we would not expect to drink water or drive cars. Why then should we form our political judgement on the basis of zero invetsment? We get what we pay for.
What some call the “media industrial complex”.