Re:They Thought They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, an Excerpt
by JeremyNT on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:41AM
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> it's how you have populations repeatedly making the same damn mistakes century after century just in a different form. it's baked into our DNA i suppose.
I think this is probably correct. It's inevitable. It's who we are - we (some percentage of?) humans simply want to hurt each other.
Nobody in the history of humanity has had it as good (by any material metric) as Americans living in 2025, yet here we go again.
I think this is probably correct. It's inevitable. It's who we are - we (some percentage of?) humans simply want to hurt each other.
Nobody in the history of humanity has had it as good (by any material metric) as Americans living in 2025, yet here we go again.