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Don't you find liberating that any human, no matter how powerful they may be, how good or bad they are, cannot escape from death? Maybe it sounds a little dark
by yomismoaqui 1y ago
Don't you find liberating that any human, no matter how powerful they may be, how good or bad they are, cannot escape from death?
Maybe it sounds a little dark or edgy, but this thought gives me peace. Imagine what an immortal tyrant could do to humanity...
- fatbird 1y agoThere's apparently an old Japanese saying that goes "Asleep, one mat; awake, half a mat." It refers to the space on a mat that everyone, even the Emperor, occupies.
- willvarfar 1y ago(Interestingly, some of the world's dictators do seem to have an interest in the current state of the art in prolonging life. For example Xi and Putin chatted about organ replacement https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr70rvrd41ko https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr70rvrd41ko)
- theultdev 1y agoUntil you learn it's not individuals, but groups of them with ideas that persist for multiple generations.
- al_borland 1y ago“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.” Tomorrow is the 5th of November after all.
- xnx 1y agoThe great equalizer
- nyantaro1 1y agoYet he was surrounded by his family by the very end. Pretty much died under his conditions, unlike all the other lives he affected
- wat10000 1y agoStraight from The Great Dictator. "The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish."
- hearsathought 1y ago> Imagine what an immortal tyrant could do to humanity... I'd imagine an immortal tyrant would do nothing to humanity since humanity would be insignificant to him.