Return of the Strong Gods
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I've heard about this from various places and the ideas themselves are well-trod at this point. What I found interesting was yet another plausible explanation for the post-war concensus: strength caused the suffering of the first half of the 20C, so strength had to be rooted out from all corners of society, so the reasoning goes.
He kind of pussies out at the end, arguing that destroying society wasn't the best way to fight fascism, which is tacit acceptance that muh yahtzee indeed need to be fought. I do like the quote referenced in the closing: I hope I get to live to see the end of the twentieth century.
The guy clearly hates that the choice is between progressivism and what he refers to as fascism... But as the French lady in the article noted, we want to have our own countries too.