Indeed. He's not wrong there and REALLY that's the lesson that needs to be learned. In our times we tend to focus on the big bad man, when really the systems of control and destruction are much more dangerous. 

kepford

AskSN

What do we think about Elon's recent comments on Stalin and Hitler?

stack_harder

I think it's easy to read without seeing much agency there. They're almost reduced to tools.

It's important to emphasize that the noble civil servants were the ones directly carrying out these millions of murders. That's definitely the point Elon's trying to emphasize: A large group of government employees is how you get the largest scale atrocities we've ever seen. 