Conversation

Tyrants, totalitarianists, and dictators have been around for the entire history of humanity. What's more remarkable are the periods and places where that wasn't the case. Totalitarianism, violence, and war aren't and haven't always been inevitable, despite the pervasive myth to the contrary based on hopelessness, sometimes even mixed with good intentions. Every totalitarian dictatorship and empire based on violence eventually falls. That is a consistent historical truth.