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  • 24-05-2018 2:30pm
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    After reading about a woman being abducted and murdered or of a teenager being beaten to death in an apparent bullying episode or teenagers stoning animals to death or even the simple viciousness towards those who get social housing etc.

    It would be easy to could come to the conclusions that humans are totally driven by their animals nature and that it is at best naive to think society is progressing to some higher civilization? instead, its a cyclical story of wars over resources religion or ethnicity and right for minorities, woman or gay people could reverse?

    John Grey is a really interesting philosophy who writes about this.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gray_(philosopher)

    "he says it’s tyranny we often seek – with rather more zeal than we like to imagine. “Tyranny offers relief from the burden of sanity and a license to enact forbidden impulses of hatred and violence.

    I am more inclined to think civilization does get better though insight followed by reflection which leads to changes for the better.


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