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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

dale carnegie and the age of innocence

I wonder to what extent the Western mindset is still influenced by World War II. Political discourse, which in the U.S. is marked by a general distaste for appeasement and accommodation, still follows a post-war playbook. I'll venture to say that we shed our concerns about communism, but we still fear the next proto-Hitler.

But, in a more general sense, are people less trusting and a bit more violent because of the World War experience? The harm caused by backing down, even for a moment, motivates decision making in business and life. Do people look on World War II as evidence for the need to be hard, and to be hard quickly, before employing discourse?

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