From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 14:34:42 MDT
[kharin]
Sorry, it wasn't easy to find. The site is at: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/atrox.htm
Joe made some interesting comments at the time, which are as follows:
"I did note that in just about every case of mass murder in the 20th century, whether inspired by religion or political ideology, the omnipresent element was the existence within, and even the domination, at least in one of the major institutional combatants, and usually the aggressive one(s) if not more, of a utopian ideal that required the subservience of the present, and of those people residing with it, including those who did not share such an ideal, to a single imagined and fervently desired future."
<snip>
[rhinoceros]
Thanks for the link. I'll have to check Joe's hypothesis against the "30 Worst Atrocities of the 20th Century" examined there. My first impression is that it is too open to ad hocs, as it allows very indirect ways of correlating with a utopian ideal as defined here.
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