"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
Power Makes You Stupid
The history of the Bolivian and African slaves in the Potosi mines rarely makes it into history books.
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An attribute of criminal power (ability to coerce) is unaccountability for your actions. Power insulates itself from consequences using the threat of our guns, pointed at us, to prevent our retaliation for their crimes.
It is not power that makes you stupid. It is irresponsibility and therefore lack of the feedback required to learn, adapt and therefore survive.
Darwin warned us: Survival EQUALS adaptation to environment EQUALS ability to choose correctly EQUALS freedom:
http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/36
Power, because of lack of feedback (facing consequences of THEIR actions) is doomed to non-survival, due to unfitness and inability to learn or adapt to reality. THINK about it:
http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/c1/33
The only valid question is: Will we allow them take us and civilization with them?