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Originally Posted by August
Again it's nothing new in human or even western history. The players and the topics change but the purposes and intentions do not. Extend ones control over the population and outlaw or marginalize the opposition. Any reason will do. In an earlier time they would just have declared them heretics or counter-revolutionaries.
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Sure, but in the West we have had kind of an intermezzo of creative optimism and civil rights, liberal spirit and founding entrepreneurs, humanistic philosophy, educated burgeois classes and a focussing on justice, ration and reason. Much of that is coming to an end, or is in the phase of terminal decline, it seems to me.