Sublime

political and economic interests

atrocious and heinous acts, including rape and outright murder. Most of those accusations have been soundly debunked by contemporary scholars.

The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands.

A crucial law of storytelling is that once a story manages to extend beyond the audience’s horizon, its ultimate scope matters little. People may display the same murderous fanaticism for the sake of a thousand-year-old nation as for the sake of a billion-year-old god. People are just not good with large numbers. In most cases, it takes surprisingl

History may be inevitable, but within that inevitability there are still clear choices that can be made.

All this would improve dramatically after the European Jews arrived.

This answer, however, involves an ethical judgement rather than a factual statement.

People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.

In modern times, a small difference in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group.