Voltaire pointed out that "
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities".
There is no belief more absurd than the belief that political government is legitimate or that it has any place in society.
Look at the
thousands of years of atrocities
directly caused by believing that particular absurdity.
Trying to govern others doesn’t just make a person become evil; it is evil in and of itself.
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“Trying to govern others doesn’t just make a person become evil; it is evil in and of itself.”
ReplyDeletePrecisely. It is the root of all evil. The only legitimate and just exercise of control is self-control. Regrettably. that is the kind most people shirk because it is more difficult than obedient compliance with external authority.
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.”
---- Friedrich Nietzsche
Exactly.
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