Recorded history says otherwise.
Or maybe if John Lennon had only been born soon enough to sing "Imagine" there would have been no Nebuchadnezzar, Gengis Khan, Darius of Assyria, Attila the Hun, Ivan the Terrible, Atta Turk, Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Iddi Amin, Communism, Muslim extremeism, or human slavery from 10,000 BC to the Sudan, Niger and Mauritania today, Gosh, Polly, this time we can put on a show, all hold hands, sing Kumbaya and maybe it'll be different!
George Santayna said,"those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
I'll paraphrase that, Those who cannot remember the past ACCURATELY are condemned to repeat it.
Individual liberty is a fairly rare experience for the majority of humanity in history.
The only difference between an 'extreme paranoid' and an 'extreme optimist is one fails to recognize the positive while the other fails to recognize the negative. Both live in a world existing only in their imagination. Both are a danger often getting others killed along with themselves.
Happy Trails!
Ok. I’ll bite. We’re all gonna be taken over by totalitarians and be forced into slave camps.
What do you suggest be done about it? Or is it too late? And if it is, why are you and I bothering to post on a bulletin board that tends to uphold free thought and action?