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This is far more similar to Communism than Fascism. Their mentality is that they are a scientific vanguard (like Marxism) and that the ends justify the means. They also share the binary thinking of Marxists. They part company with Fascism because most of them are internationalist.
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I've probably read more books than you have. I used to read twenty a month at one point.
Yet you didn't get to actually read books relevant to the topic.
Any ideology which says "the ends justify the means", or that it alone is scientific, is going to end up with a high body count.
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it's almost like the people you call evil are just regular people anyone can be evil, anyone can be good, anyone can be both even on the same day or be seen as one contemporarily and the other historically so perhaps painting specific groups of people as the incarnation of pure evil is not a good idea unless you're trying to sell a book or get ad revenue
If they're regular people why socially do we define them as rich? They're typical biology like everyone else but politically and economically able to influence everyone else's lives.
In statistics, they'd be outliers and they'd be deleted from the dataset. In the news, it would be called bias. In a trampoline, they'd pierce the thing and drill down the ground; so, any outsized influence they have literally stamps out the life of a (trampoline) party.
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The uncomfortable reality is that there does exist an 'us vs them' situation in every other aspect of society today, and those who ignore it end up on the losing side.
A statement so vague and ominous it could have been uttered at any point in human history by persons of any ideology without loss of meaning.
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Perhaps the nuance is in the eye of the beholder? I don't think it's sustainable to go about our lives wearing blinders and averting our gaze from the misuse of technology because one might be afraid of unhappy feelings creeping in. One must not be so cowardly as to deny that materials and technology can be misused or deny that their purpose is of oppression for fear of being attacked by group-thinkers. "The unexamin…
>deny that their purpose is of oppression... A lot of the uber-nerds are just regular nerds who got lucky, not part of some evil genius cabal. By all means keep an eye on them but I think for the most part they are regular people.
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>deny that their purpose is of oppression... A lot of the uber-nerds are just regular nerds who got lucky, not part of some evil genius cabal. By all means keep an eye on them but I think for the most part they are regular people.
Look at Germany 1933++ and Eastern Germany 1945++ to see how regular people act when they get power over their neighbours. I don’t have a position on the book, but your argument isn’t supporting what you think your position is - quite the contrary.