if you get a chance to talk, one on one, with someone who exhibits thuggish behavior, and you point out the difference between a free country and a fascist one, and that what freedom is is freedom to dissent...can they hear it? or is the attempt futile because (via metafilter post)
Human reason and rational discourse evaporate during war as humans begin to think less with their cerebral cortexes: they retreat into an instinctual, feeling-world of fight or flight responses associated with the mid-brain. They devolve into an instinctual tribalism in which it is perfectly obvious that the war is a struggle between Us" and "Them".
later: Apropos cartoon here.
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