[PhasmaFelis]

I think the article addresses that, too, with Mr. C: "...he is subtle and cruel. He would rise high in a Nazi regime. It would need men just like him—intellectual and ruthless. But Mr. C is not a born Nazi. He is the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery. He is a sensitive, gifted man who has been humiliated into nihilism."

[api]

> a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery

Wow. How little things change.

[pjmlp]

I love to read ancient documents that have survived to our days, all the way back to the first written forms of documentation.

The conclusion taken from almost 4 000 years of written information is that indeed things change very little regarding human politics.