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From: John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:30:48 +0700
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 06:03:43 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

>
>During the reign of Louis XIV, French mathematician and philosopher
>Blaise Pascal diagnosed why some lust for power. In his Pensées,
>Pascal wrote, “I have often said that the sole cause of man’s
>unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
>Pascal explained that, out of the inability to sit alone, arises the
>human tendency to seek power as a diversion.
>
>https://intellectualtakeout.org/2024/08/people-without-meaningful-lives-seek-power/

I think that the comment " Ridley’s description of the grinding
poverty of the average person just a few centuries ago". Disregarding
the word "grinding" the difference between living when I was a lad and
living today show the same, rather great, differences. For example. We
lived a few yards short of 1 mile from the school - grade 1 through 3.
so I wasn't allowed to ride the school bus because the school bus was
for those that lived "more then 1 mile from the school". So from, the
age of six I walked a mile (less a few yards) to school, and home,
each day. 

Most people in town walked a mile, or so, to work and home.Of course
most of them had a auto but why would one drive a car to work? It's
only a few minute's walk and the price of gasoline! 

Cars were for Sunday afternoon after church when one might make a
short trip in their going Church clothes before Sunday Dinner. After
all. If one had a car one wanted the neighbors to know it, didn't one?

Generally, married women didn't work... "you mean you let your
daughter marry a man that couldn't support her?".

Not working, "being on the town", meaning you were on the dole and was
something to be ashamed of. I can still remember my mother telling me,
"don't play with those kids, they are on the town".

And, the strangest thing... we didn't realize how cruelly we were
being oppressed :-)
-- 
Cheers,

John B.