There's a whole social need for that, not to oppress the masses, but to impress the masses and make them proud and allow them to feel good about their culture, their government and their ruler so that they are left feeling that a ruler has the right to rule over them, so that they feel good rather than disgusted about being ruled. He has a point. I concede the great attraction of the image Lucas offers, while opposing it with all my power. I don't know which will prevail. And yet, I feel I must point out that, for all their pseudoscientific rhetoric, both Nazism and communism were essentially Romantic movements.
Most ideologies are.
Their absence from a pragmatic, open-minded 21st century will be no great loss. Here is another way of posing the issue. Return to main article. All rights reserved.