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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
My response is a personal one.
Those ideas just don't inspire me.
They sound good and are therefore useful as political rhetoric.
I find repression to be the means by which humans are civilized.
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Although I don't understand exactly what you are saying in the first part, I do relate to the second part.
I think it was Will Durant who said that civilization is always one generation from extinction. Bacon wrote of mankind that it is our unbridled passions that forges our fetters.