John wrote: ↑Sat Mar 19, 2022 11:01 am
Thanks for the virtue signaling, but Generational Dynamics does not
legitimize violence.
A weatherman who predicts that a hurricane is coming does not legitimize
the hurricane. He's simply telling you what's coming, and not saying
whether it's good or evil.
Generational Dynamics is like the weather forecaster for the world.
It predicts events without saying whether they're good or evil.
My personal opinion is that the great sociopathic genocidal monsters
-- Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Robert Mugabe, Min
Aung Hlaing, Bashar al-Assad, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping -- are all
evil.
Except I get the impression of justifying hatred in order to improve the effectiveness of your people. In the description of the Marco Polo bridge incident, it seems cool from the Japanese perspective of the time to have your troops dislike the Chinese. Oppression becomes more oppressive with a dislike of the other. In part that is one of the Russian ‘flaws’ in the recent war, in not spending effort to cause their troops to hate their victims. In part it is whether you are describing your own culture or a foreign one. It is one thing to objectively scientifically predict one group in the Middle East will feel itself superior to another and justified in seizing control, while the other group wishes to live their own life and reject that control. If anything, you can scientifically objectively predict the former, but sympathize with the latter.
It becomes another thing to support Trump in spite of his perceived dislike of minorities. If you are continuing a tradition of hating and oppressing another group, to some degree your leader belongs with Stalin, Hitler, Mao and the rest of your always incomplete list. The objective is to make sure hatred and oppression is not cost effective in the Information Age, to make sure hatred oppression and prejudice are not effective tools when sizing power by force. In a sense, you are proving Generational Dynamics wrong, fighting the trends that made vile behavior common. While hatred, prejudice and oppression were so common as to seem inevitable, so much so the scientifically objectively predicting they will happens seems true, it is not clear that they will remain common in modern times.