Re: [Nolug] O.K., you've probably heard this one before...

Michael Flora <michaelrflora@yahoo.com> writes:

> I don't think that anybody wants to see the world blown up (except
> for a few crazies like Osama) but there are plenty of people who
> benefit from keeping the world right on the edge of being blown up.

Why'd ya have ta go and say something I agree with?

> "Power grows from the barrel of a gun" -- Mao Zedong

Good thing that that isn't the only source of power, though. That
power is the threat of death. Power can also be had by sustaining
life.

Coercive power (threat of death, the kind that grows from the barrel
of a gun) is short-lived anyway. All tyrants die. Most of them do
not die of natural causes.

Mark.

-- 
As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery
you create morbidity.			     -- G.K. Chesterson
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