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Mainly because the ones in power want to stay in power, and actively stop change. We are safer than ever, yet according to the media we are super lucky to not b
by hacker_9 10y ago
Mainly because the ones in power want to stay in power, and actively stop change. We are safer than ever, yet according to the media we are super lucky to not be killed by a terrorist every second of the day.
- aiNohY6g 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Voluntary_Servitude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Voluntary_Servitu... The essay argues that any tyrant remains in power until his subjects grant him that, therefore delegitimizing every form of power. The original freedom of men would be indeed abandoned by society which, once corrupted by the habit, would have preferred the servitude of the courtier to the freedom of the free man, who refuses to be submissive and to obey.