It amuses me to no end that people are using the Hitler analogy with Trump.
The obvious comparison (if he subverts elections) is Erdogan.
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I don't think we even have a sane perspective on *anything*. In character, we are closer to gallus than panthera. Some nobility, but hardly much.
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Lions and tigers have a character fit to rule. They live by a brutal code, but they uphold it.
Us? Fuzzy boundaries, backstabbing and cliques.
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This is a nontrivial issue: we are not capable of responsible behaviour except our own (fluid) social group -at the genetic level-.
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When we try to do so, we are fighting an uphill battle against epic odds.
If we survive another 10k years (or accelerate), maybe we adapt.
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It's not an accident that fascists and imperalists tend to model themselves on apex predators. They know, deep down, we are just monkeys.
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