Dear Beloved Offspring:
By the time you read this, I suspect the long debate between left and right, communism and fascism, will be moot, that is, irrelevant. Those two ideologies were born in the boiling petri dish of the Industrial Revolution, when humankind was reeling from the new, mysterious, and terrifying effects of electricity and steam engines.
“What will become of us?” the people cried. And so they went running for the comfort and shelter of a big man on a horse, like Stalin, Mao, and Hitler. “Save us from ourselves! Save us!”
Systems and men bent on power and control never waste a good crisis, and so tyrants like the ones I mentioned (and there were others) rode the wave of fear, enlarging it however they could to maintain control. Fear is the ticket to power.
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