08-27-2016, 09:25 PM
(08-27-2016, 05:34 PM)Anthony Wrote: But why is it that homogeneous societies like Iceland, and even large, populous ones like Japan, are so peaceful?
Maybe because if someone in those countries cuts you off on the freeway you don't even have the opportunity to call him/her a n***er, k**e, s**c, etc.?
Eighty years ago, homogeneous Japan was a violent society of coups and violent demonstrations.
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.