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That's an extremely rose-tinted narrative.
by CapacitorSet 10y ago
That's an extremely rose-tinted narrative.
- pjc50 10y agoWell, Stanislav Petrov won a Nobel Prize for refusing to follow orders ...
- barry-cotter 10y agoNo he didn't. He won the Dresden prize, whatever that is.
- nnq 10y agoNothing rose tinted about it... yeah, the system got from state A to a less bad state B. And millions of people suffered and died in the process. Probably one of the worse and most mentally damaging ways to enact social change. Now you have democracy, but also a society with 50% of the seniors infected with a toxic mentality that will stay with them until they die - once you do something over and over again it becomes a habit and a habit of subtle systemic and self sabotage is horrible. And some of it managed to pass it on to younger generations, hence extra laziness and crime. Almost like the fallout of a "mental nuclear war" that keeps lingering and "irradiating people's minds" long after the old problems disappeared. I'm just remarking that in its slow and lives-wrecking way, this... works!