The issue is that every new generation of this issue comes up with its own version of "the others" to be suppressed.
The witches, the commies, the nazis, the apostates etc. that people feel morally justified to destroy at all costs. Moral superiority thanks to the ideology du jour is one of the most insidious and hard to fight social forces that brings the worst out of humans.
The Gulag Archipelago should be mandatory reading for contemporary generations that weren't born in a totalitarian regime and want to get a taste of where blind following of ideology can get them.
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The issue is that every new generation of this issue comes up with its own version of "the others" to be suppressed.
The witches, the commies, the nazis, the apostates etc. that people feel morally justified to destroy at all costs. Moral superiority thanks to the ideology du jour is one of the most insidious and hard to fight social forces that brings the worst out of humans.
The Gulag Archipelago should be mandatory reading for contemporary generations that weren't born in a totalitarian regime and want to get a taste of where blind following of ideology can get them.
"The witches, the commies, the nazis, the apostates etc"
Surely you can pick the odd one out here.