Henry Adams: "Politics... Has Always Been The Systematic Organization Of Hatreds"

Henry Adams, historian and teacher 

1838-1918 

Alan: I have long felt strong antipathy toward simians. 

As a group, I find our zoological kin unattractive in the extreme.

For whatever "reason," these supposedly "intelligent" creatures even look stupid - extraordinarily stupid.

Not at all fox- or lynx-like.

Mark Twain, Adolf Hitler And The Dunning-Kruger Effect

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/mark-twain-and-dunning-kruger-effect.html

New York Times Interviews David Dunning, Co-Author Of The Dunning-Kruger Effect 

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/?hp&_r=0 

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http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/mcarthur-wheeler-patron-saint-of.html

Consequently, it is not at all surprising that Adams categorizes homo sapiens' community life as the "systematic organization of hatreds."