10-03-2020, 09:41 AM
Tribal thought is often a reaction to modernity. People who claim some superiority of their nation over the merits of other nations set them selves up for the biggest of all blunders -- underestimating the Enemy. Just look at what Hitler had to say about the United States.
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.
