Jul 19, 2021
1:23:58pm
jkccoug All-American
We are obsessed with the feeling that forces outside of our control threaten
to destroy us. All power is corrupt, and power can only be trusted to those who don't want it.

This creates a self-fulfilling prophecy because in the real world power has to be sought to be obtained and isn't suddenly thrust upon us.

The end result is something like: a) we distrust anyone who wants power; b) the only ones who get power are those who want it and thus can't be trusted; c) we stop trusting authority and power and those who have power are immediately looked at askance; d) now even fewer decent people want power because they think it is for bad people/bozos, e) the trustworthiness of those in power goes down because even fewer decent people want anything to do with it; f) we see that the people with power are even worse than we had imagined and trust them even less and despise them more; g) repeat ad infinitum and it keeps getting worse.
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