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Originally Posted by eppythacher
While your argument is technically correct, I think it might be a a type of strawman in that it can be applied to Any argument, which means we can't predict anything. If I said the sun will rise tomorrow on earth, you could say aliens could blow up the planet, and no one could argue against that. I hate to Godwin the tread by dragging Hitler into it, but in your Nazi example if I argue that history will look down on the Nazis, you could say that the US could get taken over by Neo-Nazis and approve of what Hitler did. You can't disprove a negative. I think the onus is on you to support your claim that the US is moving toward a more fascist regime that supports book banning. So far no democracy I know supports it? If you compare yourself to china, then anything goes, you can sell organs from dissidents on the black market there.
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There's nothing wrong with speculating based on current perceived trends. However, if you look at all of history, you'll see that things don't always go in a strait line. I guess it's just the certainty you exhibit.
I said Marx first made social divination scientific. Of course, Marx got it from Hegel, as Kali said.