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I wonder at that myself- It's occured to me
It seems I'm not the only one
“I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him. Surely a striking situation! Yet it is so common that one must grieve the more and wonder the less at the spectacle of a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke, not constrained by a greater multitude than they…”
~ Étienne de la Boétie, 1552 to 1553—The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
It seems I'm not the only one
“I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him. Surely a striking situation! Yet it is so common that one must grieve the more and wonder the less at the spectacle of a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke, not constrained by a greater multitude than they…”
~ Étienne de la Boétie, 1552 to 1553—The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Covid Madness: How Can So Few Control So Many? - garydbarnett.com
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