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Tofu Golem

@benda @mrbadger42
Once most of the wealth and power are in the hands of the few, you either give up and try to deal with it as best as you can, or burn everything to the ground.

I'm sure some history buff will set me straight about that, but the former seems to happen more than you would think.

4 Mar 2023 at 6:28 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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@tofugolem @mrbadger42 it certainly seems so in more recent history western history. I wonder about classical euro and the rest of the world's empires. either way, I think Kurt's quote is still alright in that, whether or not the first, is certainly what we're seeing here.

4 Mar 2023 at 6:38 | Open on stoners.social
Tofu Golem

@benda @mrbadger42
There's some quote by a famous ancient Greek philosopher in which he insisted that every tyranny started out as a democracy, and something about that quote makes me think something similar was at play in whatever cases he was talking about.

4 Mar 2023 at 6:44 | Open on mastodon.social
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