• BitSound@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Human nature is greedy and all that jazz. It was just a lot harder to be a bad person when your community was your life. It’s a lot easier though when you’re talking modern nation states composed of way too many people for your monkey brain to comprehend.

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      1 year ago

      It was just a lot harder to be a bad person when your community was your life.

      Not even that - small communities make 1984 look like a manual. When everyone is always in everyone’s business and privacy is a dirty word, it’s difficult to get away with anything that the rest of the community might disagree with.