For sure! And over here, I’m postulating that it might have been a combination of long-rooted custom, personal arrogance, political goodwill, and Jenny says quack. (I guess we’ll never quite know)
But I was thinking in a grander sense by that idea, really. Like, the Dems and left-wingers failing to hold Nixon & the shitshow of Reagan accountable, arguably because we were just coming off a long period of American ‘Greatness,’ roughly from the mid-30’s to the mid-70’s. Hence, a typical breeding ground for arrogance, complacency, willful ignorance et cet, you know?
Another example for me has been reading about how the average idiot-Russian has been totally indoctrinated in the idea that Ukrainians are ‘slow & stupid,’ leading them to under-react in the current war, totally unprepared for what’s currently happening. Not that they had much say in the matter, but still. 1984, and that sort of thing. With Late-Stage Capitalism being right around Exhibit A, so to speak.
Point is, as Atahualpa personally discovered, it can be a rather terminal disease as I see it. And “Fatal Arrogance”'s footprints are all over history, non…?
For sure! And over here, I’m postulating that it might have been a combination of long-rooted custom, personal arrogance, political goodwill, and Jenny says quack. (I guess we’ll never quite know)
But I was thinking in a grander sense by that idea, really. Like, the Dems and left-wingers failing to hold Nixon & the shitshow of Reagan accountable, arguably because we were just coming off a long period of American ‘Greatness,’ roughly from the mid-30’s to the mid-70’s. Hence, a typical breeding ground for arrogance, complacency, willful ignorance et cet, you know?
Another example for me has been reading about how the average idiot-Russian has been totally indoctrinated in the idea that Ukrainians are ‘slow & stupid,’ leading them to under-react in the current war, totally unprepared for what’s currently happening. Not that they had much say in the matter, but still. 1984, and that sort of thing. With Late-Stage Capitalism being right around Exhibit A, so to speak.
Point is, as Atahualpa personally discovered, it can be a rather terminal disease as I see it. And “Fatal Arrogance”'s footprints are all over history, non…?
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Hehehe, sorry for that spew, mate.