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Oh boy, now that's some wholesome entertainment. Remember to bring the kids!Richard_39 said:They're trying to bring "the good old days back". I don't know about you, but I'm not all that keen on minority lynchings....
Well, we certainly do disagree on some matters, but that's what makes it interesting, right?
I've seen that copy-pasted thousands of times, so it was a bit of "tongue in cheek" on my part.Richard_39 said:"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. "
That one made me chuckle. I used to think that too. But Staline was a hard man. So was Hitler. So was Napoleon. Saddam Hussein. Ben Laden. Donald Trump (apparently because he has cash, he has as much courage as my left nut).
Don't feel like they created good times. Just more dead people we didn't know about because we didn't have the internet back then. But anyway, that's my view of it. I don't hold the Holy Grail of truth and wisdom, so who knows.
Still, that's quite an interesting topic.
Hitler may be one the most hated people to ever live, but he took a crippled, broken nation and turned it into a super power. He did eventually prove to be an insane, genocidal megalomaniac, and is certainly not someone to admire, but despite losing the war Germany is still one of the Europe's strongest countries. We're not even thinking about it, 'cause we take it for granted, but great many things we're toying with today, especially when it comes to technology, machines, medicine and biology only exist because of WW2. It is a matter of perspective.
Stalin was just a psycho, with no real redeeming qualities.
Napoleonic Code was a basis of many administrative and judicial traditions in the West. Crippled French economy was one of the leading causes of the French Revolution, and Napoleon's reforms turned it around in about a year. Religious freedoms, promotion of equality, abolishment of slavery and freedom to serfs. Yeah, definitely a terrible human being.
Bin Laden, Trump and Hussein are all recent, considering we're supposed to be super awesome great right now, if we assume that all those people were the products of their times, I'd say that's a point AGAINST current times.