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there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering. Unable to stop ourselves serving. This is our greatest tragedy. A tragedy because it is universal, and it is timeless, as all true tragedies are. And we cannot learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of our forefathers. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot are the macrocosm. Add Napoleon, perhaps Caesar, even Alexander? These great historical figures we admire for their conquests, their drive, their ambition, and the progress they are said to have been responsible for. But would we have not been better off as a species
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We seem incapable of being led by any but the monstrous. The malignant narcissist.
