if you can be kind and moderate in your personal behavior, you can get away with incredible amounts of institutionally-mediated violence and extremism, especially to anyone who feels like they “know” you. Hypothesis: the most dangerous people are those who can give us the illusion of “knowing” them while they command an institution whose internal operations we don’t see.
Exactly! That’s just like what all the most infamous dictators did, and what Machiavelli recommends in The Prince.
Exactly! That’s just like what all the most infamous dictators did, and what Machiavelli recommends in The Prince.