As I read this, what came to mind was part of a comedian's (I forget who-- might have been Eddie Izzard?) talking about how we are horrified by murder, and horrified by a serial killer who offs 30 people...
But when it comes to the likes of Stalin or Pinochet and deaths go in the millions, we bump into our collective "reality threshold" and it's no longer real. Sure, 20 million died... but Stalin didn't personally pull the trigger 20 million times. It becomes vague and institutionalized.
It's strange... people don't THINK. And people become apologists for those causing harm, if that harm is done in name of a greater ideology that supports their life perspective. And they believe lies. And they believe they are except from cognitive bias, while those on the opposite side are declared enmeshed and "beyond hope."
And the right and the left do the exact same thing... over and over... even though few on the far left OR the alt. right are 100% bad people (as they like to make each other out to be).
Having an individual direction is scary... so adopting some form of collective direction becomes more palatable.
It's impossible for government to not be corrupt... UNLESS we live under a miracle where everyone has the SAME vision and opinion. I also have a fresh crop of unicorns for you....
Could have been Bill Hicks or George Carlin, too.
Gotta Love Hicks: Choose Love instead of fear.
Free Will runs the Universe... Any system which is counter to that fundamental principle will eventually fall apart. Peace brother.
Gotta LOVE Hicks and Carlin,,, they are the BEST !!!!