01-10-2018, 06:57 PM
(01-10-2018, 06:09 PM)nebraska Wrote: If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care, and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom.
Except that you will be around unprincipled, violent sociopaths. That is insecurity in the extreme.
Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne,
Und die trägt er im Gesicht.
Und Macheath, der hat ein Messer,
Doch das Messer sieht man nicht.
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.