When I was young, I thought Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot etc were zealous about eliminating the "educated elite" just to remove any threat to their rule, and I couldn't wrap my head around how they convinced their populations to go along with it. I was an idiot. I never would have even considered that the demand for it was actually bottom up.
When I was young, I thought Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot etc were zealous about eliminating the "educated elite" just to remove any threat to their rule, and I couldn't wrap my head around how they convinced their populations to go along with it. I was an idiot. I never would have even considered that the demand for it was actually bottom up.
It just seems so obvious now.
Lots of things about the mustache seem obvious now.