"not doing it for the same reason" it was done for *exactly* the same reason: imposition of a culture on a subject population
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the merits of the thing in itself are entirely separable, the *methods* of forcing adherence work for arbitrary world-systems
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most progs aren't sufficiently self-critical/detached enough to even have this conversation but: separate the enforcement...
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...mechanism and debate the merits of the culture itself to determine whether it is worth forcing on a population
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(lately I consider the various fascisms and communisms abominations of modernity. progressive democracy not far behind)
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Does modernity have any governance you wouldn't find abominable, or is it modernity that is the problem?
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I don't think we have a "good enough" system yet but don't think modernity is itself the problem
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(part of the reason I talk about it so much is I'm trying to hash out a workable solution)
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*argues against totalitarianism* *solution is absolute totalitarianism*
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it's all about the branding. Or, if you prefer, scoring points for the preferred political sportsball side.
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Totalitarians have to pick sides, after all there's only room for one set of them. It's a zero-tolerance mindset in the truest sense.
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and then the next step after that is expelling millions of Germans east of the Oder–Neisse (knowing you were not etc.)
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Clark is on record as supporting exactly this tactic.
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We need to exterminate those who's ideas we don't like.Knowing that we aren't doing it for the same reason as the nazi
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