Stalin is probably an extreme example, but nothing is more dangerous than attributing a society with a totally different worldview to the personality of an indi

Stalin is probably an extreme example, but nothing is more dangerous than attributing a society with a totally different worldview to the personality of an individual. There is an entire thriving culture where many of our strongest held beliefs about government and the power of individuals are just not shared, and other contrary views such as related to the strength of community are emphasized. And in fact I think if one objectively looks at the mess we have in the western system now, we can see that there are many severe problems. The horrors of the eastern system are well known here. But both sides are extreme worldviews, and we won't have a really functional global system until people are able to integrate ideas. Or maybe we will just wipe each other off the face of the earth, never having understood each other, propagandized by our own (strategically motivated) nation states to exterminate each other.