• Jumi@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    They’re crawling back out of their holes here again too

    But generally I’d say most people don’t care

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      1 month ago

      I genuinely used to wonder as a kid how the Nazis ever got to power. How people could just stand by and let people like that take power? How could they just allow all the horrid shit?

      I don’t wonder anymore.

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        1 month ago

        There are so many layers to this stuff that it would blow this comment way out of proportion. I’d love to tell you about this but it would be so much to write.

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          I got curious about it several decades ago have had some time to ponder and read.

          https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/

          Amathia. It is often translated as “ignorance,” as in the following two famous quotes from Socrates:

          “Wisdom alone, is the good for man, ignorance the only evil” (Euthydemus 281d)

          “There is, he said, only one good, that is, knowledge, and only one evil, that is, ignorance” (in Diogenes Laertius, II.31)

          That’s the opening lines of the article. It’s only 2-3 page, a couples of minutes read. I really do strongly suggest it.