"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Are American's Not Submissive Enough?
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Another excellent "Strike", Serenity!
Here's what I recommend: Everybody take 20 or 30 minutes and read this:
http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/laboetie.html
Then come back and read Sheldon's review of the NY Times column.
Étienne de la Boétie wrote this almost 500 years ago, and it still exceeds most of today's writer's assessments of where the problems lie.
In my humble opinion. (Humble? -- never heard of it.)
Sam
Thank you Sam. I am very familiar with De La Boettie's work. Brilliant suggestion.