It's really interesting to look at the history of civilizations side-by-side and compare their rises and falls. People in every age are faced with the same nature and the same questions. I'm trying to get through Toynbee's work about that.

Coming up with practices that exploit the young, the old, the weak, and the poor is not difficult. But it takes a certain kind of person to push those practices to the extreme and systemitize them, which is what I'm reading about in a book I just discovered called Political Ponerology, which is a psychological study of political evil.

There's so much to think about 🤔