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It’s not just “kings,” its concentration of power in all spheres of life. The fact that this point is largely lost on the audience of this site just shows how
by mattgreenrocks 1y ago
It’s not just “kings,” its concentration of power in all spheres of life.
The fact that this point is largely lost on the audience of this site just shows how bad things have gotten.
People who want to amass power for its own sake need self-reinforcing systems that restrain them.
- MichaelZuo 1y agoThis seems circular. It’s impossible to successfully restrain another more powerful than you, by definition, as an individual. And to do so as a group introduces the whole mess of politiking and intra-group dynamics that generates any significant power concentration in the first place.
- guelo 1y agoNo, billionaires should not be the countervailing power, that just turns into oligarchy. The innovation of America is that We the people, our laws and institutions are. The problem is ideological billionaires have been buying up all the propaganda outlets hobling "we the people"'s power.
- MichaelZuo 1y agoHow does this relate to my comment? It seems like it’s responding to something else.
- ekaryotic 1y agothere are physical laws that cannot be broken, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. therefore attempting to restrain a higher power only ends in self restraint. have you considered that the best approach is to go on strike, depriving the higher power of something of yours, whether that be labour, or progeny.
- gigatree 1y agoAnd ironically, the founding fathers did exactly that. The colonies were only started having land stolen and having their property and work taxed shortly after the formation of the federal government.
- classified 1y ago> this point is largely lost on the audience of this site “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”