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Writing on the stumbling energy transition.
TLDR: **Key Points:** * The worst individuals in a society are more likely to succeed in a totalitarian system due to their willingness to disregard ordinary morals and take ruthless actions. * A totalitarian leader must collect a group of followers who are prepared to submit to discipline and impose it on others, often by appealing to a common human weakness or hatred for an enemy. * The leader must be willing to do immoral things to advance within the party, and the principle of "the end justifies the means" becomes the supreme rule in collectivist ethics. * In a totalitarian system, intolerance, suppression of dissent, and disregard for individual life and happiness are essential and unavoidable. * The system relies on propaganda and control of information to make people accept the values they are to serve, often by using old words with changed meanings. * Collectivism ultimately means the end of truth, as people are persuaded to accept the validity of values they were never truly committed to. https://mises.org/articles-interest/why-worst-get-top?
“Perpetual vigilance on the part of the citizens can achieve what a thousand laws and dozens of alphabetical bureaus with hordes of employees never have and never will achieve: the preservation of a sound currency.” — Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit