Eric Hoffer was honest and was willing to admit that he did learn from others around him, but he is also a moderate and suggests that we are more creative with what we learn from others, than what we originate on our own. If others provide us with an insight, and then, if we are individuators, what we learn from others will trigger in us, new ideas. We should always acknowledge our sources and mentors, but we have a right to assert ourselves as to what resultant ideas are our own.
I was doing errands yesterday, listening to Dennis Prager on talk radio. He was talking about how Hamas is even more vicious than Hitler, and his gauge for measuring this was that the evil doer that is open, brazen and advertises his cruelty in inhumanity is even more dangerous than a mass murderer who hides his nasty work from the public.
Hamas was openly bragging about the genocide which they practiced on October 7,2023 against Jewish civilians, even taking cellphone videos of their atrocities and sharing them online.
Hitler hid his murdering the Jews from the Jewish people.
Prager concluded that the evildoer that is more extroverted and blatant is the one that is the most vicious.
I had a flash after hearing that, and thought, “Well, perhaps a standard for judging how evil a mass movement or criminal gang is to detect whether they have concluded that they no longer even need to disguise or conceal their cruelty and murder, but practice it openly.
When evildoers are still hypocritical and disguise their crimes, society would not yet be totally lost.
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