06-05-2016, 07:00 AM
(06-05-2016, 03:00 AM)Galen Wrote:(06-05-2016, 02:55 AM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: No one with power can be trusted.
You have the most amazing ability to not think things through and completely miss the point. No wonder Boomers screw everything up they touch.
The wrong Boomers have been in charge. The extreme narcissists and some borderline sociopaths have prevailed in government and business.
...Corporate power can do as much evil as government. The profit motive does not reliably educe the noblest behavior from people.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.