"X can seem sensible and logical if you ignore sense and logic and believe your emotions instead".
Yes, that's true for everything, and it is exactly what believing your emotions over facts means.
Yes, that's true for everything, and it is exactly what believing your emotions over facts means.
The current headwinds are a result of ill-equiped individuals being manipulated by other ill-equiped individuals.
That may be, but it also seems perfectly logical to claim democracy is broken because a voice of an educated person carries same weight than that of a high school dropout. All you need to do is extend this logic a bit. I think it is because of our emotions, empathy or maybe something else that we see that this "flaw" in democracy isn't really a flaw.
> ill-equiped individuals being manipulated by other ill-equiped individuals
Except fascism wasn't only a manipulation. Had fascism succeeded it would've made the participating states extremely rich, powerful and influential throughout the next (maybe) hundreds of years.
Depends. If you assume succeeded indefinitely then this is a trap because such a thing is impossible (can only be deemed indefinitely successful at its end at which point it cant). Fascism could've been the new feudal era with the masters and slaves clearly defined but yes, I don't think it could've lasted forever if that's what you're saying.
Is not logical.
> fascism wasn't only a manipulation
No successful ideology is only a manipulation.
> Had fascism succeeded
I doubt anyone really knows why, but the historical fact is that it didn't.
How so?
>No successful ideology is only a manipulation.
Depends on how you define success. We can say "fascism didn't succeed" but it certainly didn't blow over as a trend. Not back then, and not now.
I don't think so. Even "democracy" in the lens of 18th is century America is rife with various prejudice that shouldn't existing in a pure democracy. I wouldn't extrapolate anything accurately from millenia ago if it degregates in a matter of a few centuries.
It's very easy to protest "equal vote for each person" when the ruling body gets to define "person" (or more accurately, "citizen") in their own emotion way
It is always straightforward to uphold what you already believe in.
Like isnt it the famous line of the communists that communism is a historical neccesisty? I think all ideologies have something similar.
We've had them since the first time a group of farming monkeys decided to post day/night guards on the granary.
Those posts have been filled around the clock ever since.
To my knowledge the first ones to formalize this were Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau but, in all cases, very little has changed since.
To me, that's as straight an answer as you're ever going to get
Yet the guards remain and insist that they are still needed.