11-18-2016, 08:31 PM
Sometimes nations in a 4T try all sorts of bad solutions before coming up with the right one -- or as in the cases of Germany, Italy, and Japan, having the right solution imposed upon them.
Let us hope that we do not need to have some foreign power or powers imposing some right solution upon us. I can contemplate the worst possible solution very easily, having read The Man in the High Castle. Even It Can't Happen Here may have had a start in America this time... but the novel has a happy ending.
Let us hope that we do not need to have some foreign power or powers imposing some right solution upon us. I can contemplate the worst possible solution very easily, having read The Man in the High Castle. Even It Can't Happen Here may have had a start in America this time... but the novel has a happy ending.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.