The Strength That Produces Stability and Durability Is From the Subordination of the Individual

The danger facing strong communities founded on similarly constituted, firm, charactered individuals is that of the gradually increasing inherited stupidity such as haunts all stability like its shadow. This idea that stability leads to stupidity is a really interesting one. I'm reading a book right now by adam hawkschild called king leopold's ghost. And you can see that as they get more and more power, some pretty awful things start happening. i think that the kinds of stupidity i'm not going to just chalk up all colonialism to this exact dynamic that nich is pointing to.