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| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
My point is only that he is not motivated out of any altruistic sentiments for country or countrymen - he wants to make a dime, and, as you've pointed out quite well, the easiest way to do that is to appeal to people's most base desires. The seed of hate may be planted in everyone, but people like him have made a career in carefully cultivating and directing that hate to serve solely personal aims. I think he is a very dangerous person. |
The enormous cynic in me wants to argue that altruism is a ruse, that it isn't genuine or it isn't understood. Everyone wants to make a dime for themselves, the current state of things has just ever-increasingly indicated that it is far more prudent to do so by rallying people behind your cause, whatever it may be.
Even people who believe in the good of a nation, in its people, in its goals and organizations, its ability to change the world we live in - even those people have their camp, their pole to huddle around, simply waiting to dismantle the opposition in the name of "what's best". But all the best intentions ever boil down to are self-interest and its subsequent feast upon lesser ideals.
That said, I completely agree - he is a dangerous man, one whose influence reaches the far-right and uninspired minds of taxpayers living in a sheen of equal voting power. But this direction - this "hatred" - would its absence save people? Would it save mankind? I think that humans have demonstrated well enough that hate is unnecessary to bloodlust - no matter how you manipulate it, it shall not ever be quelled nor quenched.
But that doesn't mean we can't play the game where we pretend to be free of it just long enough to destroy those credited with its perpetuation.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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