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All good and all but even with something like this, what if your business was to try to rule the world and everyone in it with the billion dollar resources at your disposal?
The problem isn't the money, the religion, the systems .... it's the age old ancient idea we never seem to want to acknowledge or deal with, ever since we first stepped out of our cave thousands of years ago ... the idea that some people should rule and others should be ruled and that we should all fight and kill one another to maintain that order.
You're doing a lot of legwork not to like this penny
I've been made to feel like I had to walk through a lot of crap over the past few decades of world history only to realize that people have been walking this same path for thousands of years more to realize this.
Well I've never met an upbeat historian, to put it another way. Still, there are glimmers of light and civility in this open air abbatoir it pleases us to call life.
I'm conditionally upbeat - the world is shit, but it's less shit now than it was before.
lol ... my sentiments exactly and its a message I have to keep reminding myself about. Things are looking terrible right now .... but they are less terrible then they were before.
The only caveat to that is that in the past, we were incrementally getting less and less terrible to one another and it wasn't really world changing. We are the point now where a small group of people can just decide to end it all for us and start nuclear war to end humanity in one angry blow. We used to be able to kill each other one by one but now we're so sophisticated that we can kill everyone in one shot.
I am obliged to ask if you are a historian, or like me merely a Carlinesque fan of history
I majored in history, but I was just an undergrad. Take that as you will.
the idea that some people should rule and others should be ruled
Well there are movements like voltunarism and individualism. Something Franklin probably would've been a supporter of.