The New Republic: The unwisdom of crowds
Individuality, like civilization itself, is such a hard-won, fragile thing. It is for this reason that war, even just war, is the enemy of civilization.

The New Republic: The unwisdom of crowds

Sep 9, 2010 at 10:08
David Rieff writes:

Toward the end of Defying Hitler, his extraordinary memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany, Sebastian Haffner describes how the Nazis had “made all Germans everywhere into comrades.” This, he argued, had been a moral catastrophe. This emphatically was not because comradeship was never a good thing. Read the story here.

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