Posted on 06/14/2017 10:05:43 AM PDT by RArtfulogerDodger
“A large populace held in check by a small but powerful force is quite a common situation in our universe.
And we know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers—
“One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders.
“Two: When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.
“Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
The preacher has a flaw which we will find. I will have him spied upon, watched every moment. And if the opportunity arises, he will be discredited.
—Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
But none of that matters—because they seek and believe they even now hold, ultimate, natural-to-them, total power. If you mention them negatively, criticize them, attempt to interfere with or restrict them—they will surely get you for it.
They will strike you with electronic lightning; you will be lynched, drawn on the rack, and cut up into pieces that are fed to the bloodthirsty dogs of their Global, “Media.”
Their Media Juggernaut will get you. The enforcers of their Holy Ministry will grind you out.
You will be identified; fixed in place; mocked; discredited; fired; and, destroyed by them. Because their enmity and vengeance knows zero bounds.
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When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
- Frank Herbert Children of Dune
I understood very few of his “proverbs” or sayings. I felt many of them came from some small Roman book entitled “Maxims”
Pong?
BTTT
LOOKS LIKE THE WRITER CALLED IT ACCURATELY WHEN HE WROTE THIS in the article.
“And make not a mistake: because if they could round you up and ship you off in boxcars to Camp Auschwitz, or just make you dead—many of them have said publicly that they would glady do it.”
What’s tht mean?
Never really thought what a skeptic about the human condition Herbert was.
BTTT is old FReeperese for
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