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[–] SCmSTR@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There has to be a way for society to function healthily for all, and to disable corruption at the same time. There HAS to.. Like, if we can feel when something is bad, we can eventually articulate it, and if we can eventually articulate it, we should be able to design ways to make it better. The society programming will get more and more complex until we figure it out.

I think knowing what we want is key. And to want, you have to first know. We've simultaneously made so much progress in the past 100 years, but also so, so little. The human condition is slow-mode.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The issue is that power and money corrupt.

The man in power won't be giving it up voluntarily. So you join the revolution, and follow a charismatic leader into a civil war. You win and in the end you find out, you have been backing Napoleon and now he's the one chopping off heads.

[–] AdventureSpoon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Napoleon wasnt all that bad of a choice to back though. His decisions did a lot of lasting good.

Having backed Robespierre though must have made a lot of people feel really silly about themselves.

[–] copium@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Napoléon certainly got a lot more people killed than Robespierre.

He was a military genius but the battle he fought still had a lot of blood from French and other. Millions of dead for nothing but some little man glory.

Only 30 000 died because of the terror

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