https://archive.fo/3vUOI
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In the end mass movements that succeed often bring about a social order worse than the previous one. (This was one of Will Durant’s findings in The Lessons of History.) As Hoffer puts it near the end of his work: “All mass movements … irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred, and intolerance.” (p. 141)
The problem for the people that developed and unleashed this bioweapon is that very average people - even low-IQ people - can see none of the restrictions are stopping the spread of this. Everyone realizes that rights we’ve lost haven’t fixed this at all, and everyone expects a repeat next Christmas as this becomes the new “seasonal flu”.
“V for Vendetta” was prophetic about this whole situation, with a far right theocratic government installed in a panicked response instead of the far left lunacy we have (it was a thinly-veiled slam at “Bushies”, though set in the UK).
Per your comments...all of these lead directly back to woke people (intolerance, hatred, etc).
I strongly endorse Hoffer’s book for high school kids. It’ll make you pause think. Eisenhower actually mandated the book to his staff to read in the 1950s.