Posted by Dinah on March 1, 2010, at 23:18:32
In reply to Re: Who is your hero?, posted by sigismund on March 1, 2010, at 20:54:33
I used to think so.
But I've grown to the sad conclusion over time that it's really not so hard to understand. He tapped into the fear and rage of his time. He's not the first and I doubt he'll be the last. Hopefully it will never be on that vast scale ever again.
It makes me very melancholy to recognize that as civilized as we are, as civilized as people were in the early twentieth century, civilization can be a thin veneer where people are afraid.
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