HERE WE ARE

[vorosilov]

History board

We have here Stalin, Hitler, Mao. The three greatest Tyrants of modern history.
I have been thinking about it for a long time. They were living in the same time. Reprezented different cultures.
They were all great leaders.( in case of Hitler I dont count his antisemitism)
They all made their empire very powerful
Why did it happened this way?

[BonyN]

They were all maglo maniacks.

Comrades, the fact is that megalomaniacs such as Hitler, Napoleon, and Mao are the implements of British Imperial policy. By destroying one's rivals, one wins by default, and the preferred method is to induce them to destroy themselves and/or each other. In the fourth Crusade, the Venetians induced the Franks and the other knights of western Europe to sack Byzantium, a Christian kingdom and trading rival of Venice, on their way to Jerusalem. So the foes of all humanity exploit our petty differences, in an ignoble but time tested fashion. Divide and rule, teach the damned wogs to slaughter their neighbors like civilized men, while sahib shoulders the white man's burden of relieving them of their valuables. The biologist Lewis Thomas, in the book "Lives of a Cell", explains how the various organelles in an eukaryotic cell developed from independent prokaryotic ancestors and that some, such as the mitochondria, retain their own DNA. Now if primordial slime can band together in a durable symbiotic relationship in which all the participants can flourish, why can't we?

[rikbe]

Originally posted by tovarisch
Comrades, the fact is that megalomaniacs such as Hitler, Napoleon, and Mao are the implements of British Imperial policy. By destroying one's rivals, one wins by default, and the preferred method is to induce them to destroy themselves and/or each other. In the fourth Crusade, the Venetians induced the Franks and the other knights of western Europe to sack Byzantium, a Christian kingdom and trading rival of Venice, on their way to Jerusalem. So the foes of all humanity exploit our petty differences, in an ignoble but time tested fashion. Divide and rule, teach the damned wogs to slaughter their neighbors like civilized men, while sahib shoulders the white man's burden of relieving them of their valuables. The biologist Lewis Thomas, in the book "Lives of a Cell", explains how the various organelles in an eukaryotic cell developed from independent prokaryotic ancestors and that some, such as the mitochondria, retain their own DNA. Now if primordial slime can band together in a durable symbiotic relationship in which all the participants can flourish, why can't we?

Because there is a slight difference between monocellular life and we. Some 100 000 000 years of evolution. Or is it more?
Are you biologist tovaritsch?

All those years of progress, development, evolution and whatnot- haven't they contributed anything to our survival skills? Look, yeast in a bottle of grape juice multiply until the sugar is used up or they are poisoned by their own metabolic wastes, I forget which and it doesn't matter. The point is we can escape the metaphorical bottle by changing the rules of the game of life as we did by domesticating plants, crossing oceans, building rockets, and so on. Inventions of this sort are peculialy human, as are the various forms of political organization we have devised, city-state, empire, nation-state, etc. We should not be so quick to give up after having come so far! I am a student of life with a smattering of formal education on the subject. I know free oxygen was once a deadly poison to most forms of Life on Earth, for them photosynthesis was a disaster! Fortunately for subsequent multicellular life, there was no ecology movement around in those days!