[Eurotwit]

Thanks.

I need new stuff for my reading list - have been playing computer games lately. lol.

I hope my local library covers them... Otherwise I guess amazon will deliver.

But, I just wanted to put a different slant on the “will to power” idea. Perhaps that western philosphical thought more than any other pains American in red, white and blue.

Has it always been a good thing? Surely not.

But, overall it has been a very very positive force, and I think Christian morality played a large role in making it so.

To put it simply. America could have taken over the entire world post 1945. Lock stock and barrel. The whole shebang. And most earlier rules perhaps would have.

America did not.

A credit to your nation :)

[Noumenon]

You've touched on the essence of it: the will to power, absent any moral restraint, has been the driving force behind the Western leftist worldview. The corollary of this twisted, power-driven worldview is this: You have no inherent right to live. By their lights, you are no more than a thing, an animal, or a machine. A 'resource'. Therefore, you have no right to the fruits of your labors. There’s the last 200 years of leftist philosophy - and the corollary of the unrestrained will to power - in a nutshell.

And now you have the reason why Leftists are unfit to live in a free society.