They have tremendous power over others, but they will have their own judgement day. I wonder if they think about that?
“Some get ahead by force, others by farce” L.Star
Starting today, January 1st, I’m putting all this in the hands of God. Man is not capable of saving himself or others.
bkmk
it’s been a gimmick since the 19th amendment and even probably since the 16th.
Problem is, it took over 70 years for the Soviets to do something about their government, replacing it with a kleptocracy.
Ping
In the original American model, the people are sovereign and have the right, duty, and authority, and power to create and organize their government the way they want to as the means by which they achieve their goals
I would normally agree with this, but with automation and in particular robot/drone armies now a real thing... that may brake the cycle and doom humanity to be forever under the boot of whoever controls the robots/drones.
Every single one of those empires depended on people to enforce the tyrannical rule. Push to far... and the people eventually turn on you. But a robot will never turn on you and will follow any order. I fear for our future.
“Our whole human story is a repeating pattern in which power accumulates, empires emerge, power corrupts, divisions grow, and empires come crashing down.”
But none of the previous empires produced a populace that was so fat, comfortable and passively entertained. None of them could even imagine the poorest being the most likely to be obese like our poor. I think that makes our current era unique in all of human experience, and no one really knows what implications it will have for the future because these conditions have never existed until now.
Freegards
The biggest illusion is the idea of “Consent of the Governed”. USA elections are a lie. It’s only purpose is to make people THINK they actually have a voice in how they are governed.
Washington DC and the establishment media complex have destroyed the covenant between the people and the State.
A world wide powder keg is going to blow and woe to those politicians and propagandist who enabled it.