12-16-2020, 11:21 PM
(12-16-2020, 01:57 PM)Einzige Wrote: All of you people put a million times too much emphasis on personalities and Parties.
Some personalities (psychopath, sociopath, extreme narcissist, borderline, and paranoid schizophrenic) are either dangerous or exploitative. That's before I even mention the stupid and incompetent. Parties and other organizations that concentrate, enable, or create them are big trouble.
Character really is destiny, although in such a nightmare world as Nazi Germany in which the leadership is for all practical purposes gangsters, admirable character might be personal doom.
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.