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Why are so many people so bad?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ana the Ist" data-source="post: 72035062" data-attributes="member: 302807"><p>IMO there's a couple of situations which bring about dictatorships in the modern era...and those kind of offer a glimpse of why they came about in the past.</p><p></p><p>The first is a general sense of willingness to trade freedom for order. If you live in a fairly lawless place where people are constantly being victimized and there's a general lack of security...those people will often trade their freedoms for the order created by a dictatorship.</p><p></p><p>The second really is when an already established nation is facing a crisis which it cannot afford to react to slowly or at least the illusion of a crisis is maintained. Again, people will trade freedoms and participation in the process of politics for a dictatorship.</p><p></p><p>When you're talking about much older times however, you're simply talking about those figures capable of mobilizing large numbers of people towards violent ends. It's not so much that the average person gravitates towards such a person...but they lack any practical ability to resist them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ana the Ist, post: 72035062, member: 302807"] IMO there's a couple of situations which bring about dictatorships in the modern era...and those kind of offer a glimpse of why they came about in the past. The first is a general sense of willingness to trade freedom for order. If you live in a fairly lawless place where people are constantly being victimized and there's a general lack of security...those people will often trade their freedoms for the order created by a dictatorship. The second really is when an already established nation is facing a crisis which it cannot afford to react to slowly or at least the illusion of a crisis is maintained. Again, people will trade freedoms and participation in the process of politics for a dictatorship. When you're talking about much older times however, you're simply talking about those figures capable of mobilizing large numbers of people towards violent ends. It's not so much that the average person gravitates towards such a person...but they lack any practical ability to resist them. [/QUOTE]
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