06-06-2021, 07:41 PM
(06-06-2021, 04:00 AM)ABNARTY Wrote: Yes. Whatever we want to call it the means to get there are definitely in play. The levers are being pulled. The more I think about it, the more I believe most people just want an overlord, a strongman, a chief to make all the decisions for them. They welcome this.
The more I think about it, the more certain I am you are correct. That is the only explanation I can find for why I kept rising to management positions in the work force - no one else was willing to make the hard choices, so they all looked for someone else to do it, and someone HAD to do it, so that unpleasant task just fell to me by the luck of the draw. It certainly wasn't ability, it was just bad luck combined with the willingness in the absence of anyone else willing.
If it worked that way in my microcosm, it certainly must be at play in the macrocosm.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’