interesting that in an open society where social trust is a given, mistrust of the government has been taken to paranoid level. Yet in totalitarian society, westerners looking in seems not to grasp the basic absence of social trust.
if this phemomena was a mockery it would be funny. but it is not.
Firstly, let me commend you on a great blog page. I come back to it regualarly to see if there are any updates. Keep on the good work.
Secondly, I must admit that I couldn't of given a damn whether there were nuclear or biological weapons in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a bastard who should of been deposed for his massive human rights violations. I thought the invasion was totally justified on human rights violations alone.
Thanks, Social Pathologist.
Working in an architecture firm allows one very little time to blog. I try my best...
Although I agree that in a perfect world we could stamp out totalitarianism where it breeds, the reality is that the U.S. has limited resources in achieving such an ideal goal. The important thing is for a great swath of pampered Americans and Europeans to realize how awful totalitarian reality is and how indifference to this really destroys entire societies. To excuse totalitarianism by justifying it as a response to colonialism, capitalist greed, racism or utopianism takes away the dignity of millions of victims.
And the biggest thing these pampered people should acknowledge is that the threat of force is really the ONLY means of stamping out totalitarianism.
"And the biggest thing these pampered people should acknowledge is that the threat of force is really the ONLY means of stamping out totalitarianism."
I think this is so in most cases. However, I think it is far more ideal that there be a credible threat of force against a country's totaltarism from within the country, not without. That way, the people own for themselves the opposition to tyranny, rather than having a "Mama" or "Papa" foreign government owning it and bringing it to them.
On the other hand, sometimes there are "Velvet Revolutions" like the breakup of the Soviet Union and the mostly peaceful succession of eastern european countries from the Soviet bloc. But this resulted from weakness in the structure of the Soviets, I think. Still, sometimes opportunities like that materialize.
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