However, there’s an important difference between the despotisms of old and coercive governments in the modern era: modern-day tyrants frame themselves as the righteous side in any conflict.
-WiscoDave
Friday, October 29, 2021
Righteousness + Force in America: The Trap of Righteous Activism Coupled with State Power
There are two ways of getting things done: persuasion or coercion. You either convince someone of the value of your ideas or you hold a (literal or metaphorical) gun to their head. The latter has been the norm throughout human history. Most of what we value about the contemporary West is a shift toward the former occurring over the last 250 years or so.
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Nonsense. Tyrants of every era have framed themselves as the righteous side. The definition of righteous may change, but evil is always masked by the claim to do good.
ReplyDeleteYou took the words right out of my mouth.
DeleteYep, what anon said.
ReplyDeleteChutes Magoo
Utopia always leads to death camps - and that's a feature, not a bug.
ReplyDeleteI was gonna say...
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