Re:Society has a trust problem. More censorship will only ma...
by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:20PM
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I am vaguely aware of the meme you are referring to, but I want to stress that the idea is not entirely new[1] and is often reduced to the following citation:
"We have been compelled to recognize that millions in Germany were as eager to surrender their freedom as their fathers were to fight for it; that instead of wanting freedom, they sought for ways of escape from it; that other millions were indifferent and did not believe the defense of freedom to be worth fighting and dying for."
I am saying that you are absolutely right that it is currently in a cultural spotlight of sorts, but it is hardly the whole story.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
Side tangent- I tried to find the author of that quote thinking it has to be a ‘wise man’ of the past (given that it’s not a gender neutral statement), and it looks like that it’s actually from a post apocalyptic book from 2016 that soon after became a meme.
Source: https://www.slanglang.net/memes/hard-times-create-strong-men...