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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:04:05 -0500
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On 8/28/2024 7:52 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:26:56 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
> 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.
> 
> I fear for the future of the USA.
> 
> “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will
> herald the end of the republic.”
> --Benjamin Franklin
> 

That's Tytler, not Franklin. Written well after Mr 
Franklin's death.
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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