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It's human nature, not a modern invention. I'd suspect people been doing this since the Pharaohs. 
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I was talking about a trend in modern politics, not giving you an abridged version of Braudel. And of course it's human nature, anything humans do is human nature, it's not unfair to expect the scripted responses of our leaders to aspire to better. Whether it's practical in a democracy with the media we have is another question I guess. But we can still be mad at parts of the whole fucked equation.