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What was easier to hijack than democracy? Like most things in the world of men, democracy was principally a question of money, and the prince had plenty.
As with every curse, the victim was also the vehicle for conquest and expansion.
‘God blesses the man of good deeds, and men bless the man of many sheep!’
Once again, man, in search of land, gave the plague to his fellow man in the folds of his offerings.
preferring to reduce his interactions with other humans to the bare minimum.
Other people. Again. Often hell, sometimes salvation.
Within the dream of prosperity and tolerance, nothing remained of fragile democracy but the illusory right to talk shit.
Now they’re telling us how to talk and dress, but soon they’ll tell us how to think. What will be on the agenda for tomorrow?
What fate could you promise a child brought into a world of grenades and submachine guns?