31 Dec 2021 5:43 pm
FOS » 31 Dec 2021, 6:20 pm » wrote: ↑ People like peepee and libdave clearly believe that you can write some magic words on a piece of paper, call it the Constitution, and this will somehow inhibit any abuse of power from occurring. It is totally false.
There is also no way to construct some system of laws...no matter how elaborate...that will somehow automate the process of governance, leadership, and administration.
These are simply facts that must be accepted.
The work of angels is what your doin here
Many there are, too depressed, too embruted with hard toil and the struggle for animal existence, to think for themselves. Therefore the obligation devolves with all the more force on those who can. If thinking men are few, they are for that reason all the more powerful. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who, thinks becomes a light and a power. That for every idle word men may speak they shall give an account at the day of judgment, seems a hard saying. But what more clear than that the theory of the persistence of force, which teaches us that every movement continues to act and react, must apply as well to the universe of mind as to that of matter? Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see. But it may be that the Lord of the Vineyard will know.
— Henry George