Maggie McFee on Nostr: "When humans stop seeing other humans as human, the most horrific acts are possible. ...
"When humans stop seeing other humans as human, the most horrific acts are possible. There seems to me to be evidence that lessons that we thought were learned we're not learned, and that history is not history but we are in an ongoing tide." - Lesley M.M. Blume in Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
This is also called the pendulum effect and why we tend, as a nation, to vacilate between electing hardliners, remembering why that's bad, then progressives, getting complacent, repeat.
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