I assume you refer to Germany anno 1933, Igor? With UKIP so prominently featured in Brexit, I've pondered the same. But absolutism isn't right-wing only. The opposition against EU in my country for example, is mostly leftist. Jostein
Den 25. juni 2016 05.17.22 CEST, skrev Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org>: > >Brilliant! > >Thank you all (Jostein, Mark and B.R.) for two well formulated >thoughts. >I am also glad to see that I am not the only one seeing similarities >between some of today's events and 1933's. (Although that decreases my >hope that I was wrong in my evaluation.) > >Igor > > >Mark Roberts Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:10:21 -0700 wrote: > >Jostein Øksne wrote: > >>it seemed that the less people actually knew, the more absolutist >their >>arguments > > >Bertrand Russell summed up that (universal) phenomenon nicely in 1933: >"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the >stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
