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The Night of Broken Glass
This November it will be exactly 80 years ago that a wave of anti-Jewish savagery and destruction broke out across Nazi occupied Europe on November 9 and 10 in 1938. Known as the Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, after the shards … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, genocide, herd instinct, instinct versus reason, Kristallnacht, mass violence, mass-manipulation, Spinoza, state-sponsored violence
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Why The World Is At War
A recent March 2018 Guardian article by Jason Burke titled “Why Is the World at War” makes the point that “The harsh reality may be that we should not be wondering why wars seem so intractable today, but why our … Continue reading
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Tagged empathy and compassion, evolutionary objectives, human beings, human potential, instinct versus reason, Law of the Jungle, Might is Right, regional conflict, war, what it means to be human
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