‘Hard Times Create Strong Men, Strong Men Create Good Times, Good Times Create Weak Men, Weak Men Create Hard Times’ — Not Only False, But Fascist Rhetoric

<p>The human evolutionary niche exists at the confluence of advanced cognitive development and societal sophistication. It is the capability to not only hone rudimentary spears and bludgeons, but to operate in tandem with our kind to slay woolly mammoths and fashion warm garments from its furs, to run down antelopes to the point of exhaustion and hurriedly carry its slain corpse home before the carcass attracts other predators.</p> <p>The natural conclusion of such complex organization is civilization. Where once half-a-dozen hunters acting as one to fell their prey for subsistence served as the height of human conflict, now mankind became dominated by empires and with them, imperial war-making. Tens of thousands of humans engaged in bloody internecine warfare with one another, serving as the killing apparatus of gestalt organisms compromised of countless villages, farms and cities.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@masswrites/hard-times-create-strong-men-strong-men-create-good-times-good-times-create-weak-men-weak-men-1b5333657a0a"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>