Lessons from Hitler and WWII: People can easily become monsters | Neal Stephenson and Lex Fridman

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Neal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and new book Termination Shock), former Chief Futurist at Magic Leap and first employee of Blue Origin.
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[@sophon238]

Some of the worst bullies are the well off who have no sensible reason to be cruel.

[@auroradias1989]

You should get Historian, Victor Davis Hanson on if you want to talk about WW2, never heard a better explanation of how we ended up in a world war from anyone else.

[@robertmahler8894]

VDH lost ALL credibility for being a Trump supporter and apologist!

[@robertmahler8894]

@G.I. Joe Tyrone Way more than your Orange clown!

[@EK-yh1oi]

History doesn't repeat; history rhymes.

[@jimig6442]

"People want to be angry ", what a load of crap. People have been provoked, tormented, cheated a lied to for generations, and they are sick of it.

[@Clubskunk]

The fact that 80 plus million people died from that war is just something ppl can’t fathom. And if u look at it in a broad aspect it really wasn’t that long ago..

[@adamwilson6]

People want to be angry. You said it

[@elise9537]

maybe the monster was always there..

[@babydragon2047]

True dat

[@not0468]

The allowance for good illusions allows for bad illusions. This statement explains why humans can so quickly become monsters. Illusions need to be done away with. Although that rarely occurs albeit when bad illusions outweigh the good illusions for a prolonged period of time, a step toward doing away with illusions all together is taken by some people. But I do think the price of innovation could be high levels of illusion which I think is the primary cause of monsters in human beings.

[@Will2Wisdom]

Its a simple awareness of ego. Our individual ego's create the conflict, illusion, culture, violence and fear.

[@bert29]

People don't want to be angry... Seems like something someone would say not being a working class person. When you work hard everyday to put food on the table and get F'ed by the govt your whole life while they try to prevent they give a shit it's easy to be angry and it's easy to hate people who have nothing to do with the problem but people need to release their frustration somehow.

[@wolfgangandrewx2416]

Can?... Have!

[@Nickname_42]

Did not see ppl get crucified shortly, no guillotine, no witch burning, no Nagasaki. So can not agree that history repeats.

[@mustang607]

It's easy to explain the explosion of intolerance and brutal craziness in relation to the breakout of critical theory. Understanding real sources of real problems leads to real solutions.

[@nonickname5872]

Good example is Putin

[@jordandesmet6593]

Let’s go Brandon

[@hwilder111]

people that are stuck in being poor... is a good reason to be sad and angry!

[@Will2Wisdom]

I am easily bored by those who work in academics, stunted by the lack of realization of their own ignorance, as well as the limitations of their religion, these people are confined to cul de sac observations. The suburbs are nice, make sense, appeal to logic, and are easy to get around in, but the homogenized state of the people is unbearable and ultimately offers nothing to the seeker of knowledge.

[@1p6t1gms]

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless... Of course, you could read this into this as... send them quickly, we need cheap labor to work long hours under no or little regulations, are capitalists are growing fast. Oh, their descendants that came over are going to be fighting some terrible wars coming up very soon too.

[@blakealankc]

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