Interesting story from The Gulag Archipelago https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/osYFcQtxnRKB4F4HA/a-tale-from-communist-china …pic.twitter.com/Kph1OZ69aL
Not to be confused with 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. 54th Clause of the Magna Carta absolutist. Commentary from an NRx perspective.
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Interesting story from The Gulag Archipelago https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/osYFcQtxnRKB4F4HA/a-tale-from-communist-china …pic.twitter.com/Kph1OZ69aL
Why the world needs more disagreeableness. Those that are less trusting can actually make the world better in cases such as these. They’re more likely to prod.
That journalist wasn't low disagreeablness - he was very high disagreeablness and was salivating at the thought of putting his domestic enemies in camps like that. The Soviets showing him the brutality won his loyalty for life.
See also: Walter Duranty
Contrast Duranty's experience with Muggeridge's.
Duranty remained true to his coethnics
Not that you're not right about Duranty's co-ethnics but Muggeridge's co-ethnics were also communists - set up a collective to live on and everything.
But I think Muggeridge secretly reported accurately on the Ukraine famine and became disillusioned
He absolutely did. He also had a family background of communism which was endemic in his whole social class.pic.twitter.com/naoDR5kXKo
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