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Governments may not have survived, but the countries themselves did. > Merely asserting that Western governments are immune to the foibles of fascism and dicta
by vinceguidry 10y ago
Governments may not have survived, but the countries themselves did.
> Merely asserting that Western governments are immune to the foibles of fascism and dictatorship is folly.
The goalposts keep getting moved back. The world survived the Nazis and Holocaust and eventually became more stable. What could be worse than that?
- jonnathanson 10y agoWhat could be worse than the Holocaust? From a moral standpoint, little that I can imagine. From a human-cost standpoint, howabout unchecked and cascading climate change? If the world's powers retrench into regional hegemonies, and trust erodes along with trans-regional communication, then we're less and less likely to do anything on a global scale -- and we need to. If we let the ball get away from us here, we're talking about potentially billions of lives lost to war and famine, not to mention the billions whose way of life will be lost. And the worst part is, we don't even need fascism to get us there. We get there easily enough through the direction the status quo is bending towards.