There is a point of view that Stalin and Mao were essentially criminal in a way that national leaders have not been since the 19th Century. So a Putin and whate

There is a point of view that Stalin and Mao were essentially criminal in a way that national leaders have not been since the 19th Century. So a Putin and whatever they have in China actually represents a modicum of progress. Russia's history at the level of empire is pretty nasty. We may never be able to get out of our own way. Who knows? Not a big pill fan ( although they've absolutely gotten better for people with real brain-chemistry problems ) but these days, it's easier than ever to identify bad sources of information and understand what's gone wrong. My parents' (Silent) generation had no idea why there was a Depression; mine actually has a few theories. The emphasis on LSD as "better living through chemistry" was as much about advertising-propaganda as anything else. Regardless of any War on Drugs, that went badly.