So, I've been reading Hitler quotes...

I'm no racist and I don't understand what's his problem with Jews, Slavs and people who paint skies green and fields blue, but goddamn, that was an awesome man. They don't make politicians like that anymore. He wanted to create a new world, a new human race. All you can expect from contemporary politicians is that they want to raise or decrease taxes by 0.6%. Maybe it's just the times we live in. Stalin and Churchill were pretty cool too. Roosevelt otoh was pretty lame.

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All of them, and perhaps one or two of my own devising.  I've always been particularly gluttonous and slothful.  I think that will sound familiar to many members of this community.  I believe my "human flaws" and the way they manifest themselves are consistent with, and part of something we can call Affluent Society Syndrome.  Prior to the mid 19th century there were some successful, if unrefined treatments for the negative consequences of this condition. Exile and transportation.  But like the ability to walk away, exile and transportation aren't an option right now because all the land of this world has been gobbled up by Nationalism. 
I do not see a "downfall of mankind" though.  I see us reaching a point where even the most humble, having been exposed to the wealth of information so many have fought so hard to build, will found an information society, founded like all new societies, on a few simple and elegant truths.