“I’m beginning to believe it is the natural state of Man.”
I am coming to agree. It would appear that freedom is a short-lived aberration.
As Heinlein said so well...
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.”
“I’m beginning to believe it is the natural state of Man.”
I am coming to agree. It would appear that freedom is a short-lived aberration.
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Actually I think that this is Biblical. Someone else may be able to back this up. But I remember that when God gave the Israelites freedom, they didn’t want it and wanted a human king like all the other groups.
Perhaps part of the make up of some people is to be a serf, slave, or peon. Perhaps it shows up in the US in our attachment to our “celebrity” “betters?”
Horrible thought that humans would throw away their God-given rights of freedom.
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