The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
I don't think the majority of people are capable of handling true freedom. Most people NEED rules and someone to follow. I cannot imagine how a rule free society would function even if you removed the scoundrels.
I cannot imagine how a rule free society would function even if you removed the scoundrels.
If it were successful, it would probably be a very boring society
Well, if there are no scoundrels and "society" functions "cohesively" without a set of laws/rules/orders that must be followed, then it seems to me like everyone is either living very boring and uneventful lives, or everyone is so unbothered by what everyone else is doing that no one cares enough to try to change anyone's mind. Take shitting in the street for example. To you and me, it probably seems like common sense to not shit in the street; however, in some parts of the world it is extremely common practice for some people to shit in the street. In the first scenario, no one on Earth ever fathomed the idea of shitting in the street, so the topic of shitting is pretty boring because every single person does it behind closed doors in probably very boring ways. In the second scenario, maybe every other person in the world shits in the street, but the people who are not street shitters just DGAF that the other 50% of the population is shitting in the street, so they never fathom the idea of telling someone "don't shit in the street, yo".
Both seem like pretty boring scenarios to me.
Hence where the term useful idiots came from. Or at least it would make sense if it came from the utilization of scoundrels by people of a higher station.
There will always be a group of humans that fulfill the need of easily managed folk.
Maybe it is oppression. But maybe it is nature.