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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Yes, I get that, it's just that in western society there has never really been a time where the moral authority wasn't also the religious authority... until now. So younger, naive, University-going me had deluded himself into thinking that those religious strictures were the root source of the problem. As it turns out, human nature is the root source of religious strictures.
Which of course makes perfect sense, in hindsght. It's just depressing.
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This isn't correct either. Extremists on either side have always been authoritarian in nature. The left/right paradigms aren't even all that different than they were 50 years ago. It's an insane cycle of repetition.