who_said_I_am_an_emu t1_j299hya wrote
Reply to comment by CowardNomad in Iranian author said sentenced to death for giving interview to Israeli TV channel by essential_projection
>A dictatorship has to promulgate some sort of distant goals and moral ideals in order to justify its rule and the people’s immolation; the extent to which it succeeds in convincing its victims, is the extent of its own danger; sooner or later, its contradictions are thrown in its face by the best of its subjects: the ablest, the most intelligent, the most honest. Thus a dictatorship is forced to destroy and to keep on destroying the best of its “human resources.” And be it fifty years or five centuries later, ambitious thugs and lethargic drones are all a dictatorship will have left to exploit and rule; the rest will die young, physically or spiritually.
CrystalQuartzen t1_j2b873i wrote
Wow, I couldn’t describe Russia better myself.
parallelportals t1_j2bmxpu wrote
That's scary tbh Knowing it's just a desolate land of fucking idiots that are always drunk and cold and on the verge of hurting their partner. Devoid of anyone with common sense and oppressing what's left of it.
Pre-Nietzsche t1_j2bzivd wrote
Lol.. what? Trashing the entire country’s citizens because of a corrupt government is ridiculous. Unless we’re talking about North Korea, of course.
MrEyepatch t1_j2c1lcn wrote
Can you tell me the source?
thehedgepart2 t1_j2e0vm9 wrote
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand, 1971
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