Meanwhile, if Leopold II was a nice ruler to the Belgians, it isn't because he had any compunction about mass murdering people for his own gain. It's because he knew he wouldn't have gotten away with doing to the then Belgians what he was doing to the then Congolese. [2/4]
Hitler couldn't get an adjutant out of bed to help resolve a crisis, because that was outside the rules. Yet he could get soldiers to murder millions of innocents when he was doing it under color of law. Germans would only obey "the law", but "the law" could be anything. [1/4]
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In the end, a dictator will get away with whatever the people will let them dictate. No more, no less. Culture is what will save a country, or will doom it. [3/4]
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The Great Destroyers of Civilization have well understood it; that is communists have conquered "education", "entertainment" and "news"; and that is why the West as we know it is doomed. The crisis is philosophical and will worsen until a better philosophy spreads. [4/4]
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The idea of a society that can achieve more because individual behavior is controlled by centrally maintained software is at the root of civilization. Fascism took this to its extreme, demonstrating both the power of this concept as well as how horribly it fails.
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A momentous mistake is the confusion between "control" and order. "Control" is actually chaos. "Legislation" is the opposite of law. Rulers are the opposite of rules. Central command is the opposite of order. Hierarchical monopolies are the opposite of efficient organizations.
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