12-08-2021, 11:03 AM
(12-07-2021, 12:47 PM)David Horn Wrote: After 50 years of ever greater libertarian thinking, here we are: individuals without strong bonds to anyone outside our immediate orbit. When there is no sense of community, there can be no sense of social responsibility. Without social responsibility, social entropy is virtually guaranteed. I don't see that changing easily.
That's the definition of tribalism.
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.