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Rikard's avatar

Thinking that what had been achieved up until the 1970s was some kind of natural process that could be applied universally.

Combined with hubris, an ages-old inferiority complex among our ruling class who still dream of the 1600s, and clinging on to the belief that people being nasty and wicked and brutish is some kind of disease or disabiloty that can be cured by kindness.

And of course 70 years of state media, state schools, state kindergartens - all the wrong kinds of homogenity.

I really wish I could blame fluoridation for poisoning Our Precious Bodily fluids, but we don't do that over here.

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SCA's avatar

Ain't it a wonder how you always turn out to like all of my favorite movies?

We are living through some tragic era. Anyone available to smack Francis Fukuyama upside the head?

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Rikard's avatar

Samuel P. Huntington is sadly passed, otherwise he'd be the ideal candidate.

He's been proven correct as per his Clash of Civilisations and Davos Man (he coined the phrase, even) theorems for 25 years now.

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SCA's avatar

Just goes to show, don't it, that all them wise books is useless for getting anyone to actually do something.

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