If you find yourself in agreement with a dominant belief – the most popular religion in your culture, a love of the favored local sports team, or the belief that life is mostly neat and people are mostly good-hearted – you may occasionally have trouble distinguishing someone who doesn’t lick your butt in agreement from [...]
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March 2008
I recently described compulsory voting as “fascist” to a friend the other day, which got me thinking about the term and wondering just how well I understand it. I looked it up on Wikipedia and found that Mussolini used it to describe putting the state ahead of the individual to such a degree that any [...]
