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Until we rise above this as a species we will be cursed to live under the boot of the state.
This is the part I don't agree with. Outcomes follow incentives and right now our incentives are allowing people with those attitudes to put them into practice. I don't think that's inevitable though.
We can be in a society with those people as long as our institutions don't put them in positions to implement their authoritarian tendencies.