Hope I'm wrong again. This summer it was me who said: "I'm afraid that we don't engage in a civil one". My right-wing friend said: "Don't be crazy".
Some Eastern Europeans had the process of lustration after communism. Individuals who participated in most heinous communist machinations were stripped of their active political rights to participate in the structures of power (not of political representation).
If it does not turn into a witch hunt, something humans very aptly indulge in, I say: go for it! The only way to learn from your mistakes is if you are confronted with them.
As an aside, further on the witch hunt issue, last night I saw the Fair Game. My favourite scene is when Sean Penn is cornered by an American bigot for being "a leftist piece of crap", followed by his conversation in a taxicab with an African driver who insists the US is the land of the free, and brave.
Penn: "Well, I wouldn't be so sure about that".
However, lustration-wise, history teaches the first objective of new powerhouses is to further establish power. Croatians flocked from the Communist Party to HDZ in droves, while Americans did not prosecute Nazi scientists or, indeed, anyone of "use".
I once wrote of the unimaginable path the despots travel. After years in office they are full of stories, explanations and paranoia - while the glaring truth of basic incompetency is visible for anyone to see. Indeed, the definition of intelligence should be stretched to read: "capability to find mutually acceptable, feasible solutions".
If it does not turn into a witch hunt, something humans very aptly indulge in, I say: go for it! The only way to learn from your mistakes is if you are confronted with them.
As an aside, further on the witch hunt issue, last night I saw the Fair Game. My favourite scene is when Sean Penn is cornered by an American bigot for being "a leftist piece of crap", followed by his conversation in a taxicab with an African driver who insists the US is the land of the free, and brave.
Penn: "Well, I wouldn't be so sure about that".
However, lustration-wise, history teaches the first objective of new powerhouses is to further establish power. Croatians flocked from the Communist Party to HDZ in droves, while Americans did not prosecute Nazi scientists or, indeed, anyone of "use".
I once wrote of the unimaginable path the despots travel. After years in office they are full of stories, explanations and paranoia - while the glaring truth of basic incompetency is visible for anyone to see. Indeed, the definition of intelligence should be stretched to read: "capability to find mutually acceptable, feasible solutions".
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