At the Risk of Contradicting Mahatma Gandhi

I’m not so sure about what Gandhi said here.  It seems like history features waves of good and evil leaders, yet perhaps the metaphor of the pendulum that oscillates between two extremes is better.

Ancient Rome had a great number of terrible emperors, and the last 1600 years since has seen an uncountable number of tyrants.

Now we have Putin, Jong-un, Ping, Erdogan, Duterte, Orbán, Bolsonaro, and probably 50 other dictators whose names few of us would recognize.  And don’t forget that Trump is not yet gone from political power.

It’s true that nothing, regardless of its moral value, lasts forever, but it’s hard to believe that things are improving.