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To: SuperLuminal

Thanks for the bump. The book’s moving along in fits and starts as my day job work load and ranch work allows. I’ve had to answer a couple of key questions:

Why, for example is today any different from, say the days of the Roman Empire or medieval with respect to the exercise of power by individuals?

And above all, what is the nature of the antidote, the anti- will to power society and Man’s role in it? How do we go forward?

I’ve found some intriguing answers...


205 posted on 10/16/2011 9:43:06 AM PDT by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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To: Noumenon; Gaffer
"Why, for example is today any different from, say the days of the Roman Empire or medieval with respect to the exercise of power by individuals?"

At least one example is the orders-of-magnitude advantage that today's tyrant has in the amount of dynamic information he has about each and every serf with which to enable, strengthen, and perpetuate his control.

In their wildest dreams, Dzerhzinksy, Stalin, Wolf, Hitler, Goebbels, Malenkov, and Khrushchev couldn't have imagined the top-to-bottom control of every aspect of the serf population's life that is now a simple reality.

The history of the entire 20th century would have significantly different.

Reagan's 1964 warning of "...the last step into a thousand years of darkness." has certainly come to pass.

206 posted on 10/16/2011 2:10:40 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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