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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:37:00 -0500
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On 8/27/2024 8:26 PM, John B. wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:11:31 -0400, Catrike Ryder
> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:30:48 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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 :-)
>>
>> What a shame that mankind's drive to escape poverty has now turned so
>> many of them into fat, lazy parasites. What a shame that so many
>> politicians cater to those lowly individuals.
> 
> Ah, Timmy is a bit off target. You see Tommy you live in a country
> that prides itself on being a "democracy" and in a democracy
> politicians listen to those that will vote for them.


USA is a Constitutional Republic.

Democracy is something else, for example where the Hutus 
wake up one morning and kill the Tutsis. Because they can.

Or more simply, two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971