#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

4431.394 - 4457.846 Yuval Noah Harari

Yes, they believe in infallibility. In this sense, they are very close to being religions. In Nazism, Hitler was considered infallible, and therefore you don't need any checks and balances on his power. Why do you need to balance an infallible genius? And it's the same with the Soviet Union, with Stalin, and more generally with the Communist Party. The party can never make a mistake.