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alaskaone
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Date Posted：11/30/2020 3:15 AMCopy HTML You know... just when I think we've reached the epitome of stupid, fresh new stupid arrives and I'm reminded of how little I know regarding the unlimited potential for stupidity. The essay above points out the bloody obvious as if no one knew prior to his 'research' that life is not fair and skill is not the only determining factor in individual prosperity. He also feels the need to point out that some people are successful due to other factors they have little or no control over aka luck. In my opinion, the presence of classes of people not ultimately based upon merit is a handy way to measure tyranny in a society; the more royalty, the more bureaucracy, the more ossified society gets, the more tyrannical it is. Come to the Dark Side.
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The advantage of insinuations over hard arguments is that they bypass critical thought. No one can respond precisely to a charge that is utterly vague or to accusers who will envelope any reply in a poisonous fog of further insinuations. ~ David Warren, The Guardian
There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time and that captures an important point. The more powerful the government becomes, the more people are willing to do in order to seize the prize, and the more afraid they become when someone else has control. ~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve.”
― H.L. Mencken
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