“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”
The sociopaths who rule over us are unimpressed with our clever word games, our tightly reasoned arguments and close readings of texts. They are unmoved by facts, evidence, logic or morality, as long as they have force on their side, as long as the police and army will shoot when ordered to do so.
“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”
― Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania
Yes, so what does anyone propose to do about it?
The sociopaths who rule over us are unimpressed with our clever word games, our tightly reasoned arguments and close readings of texts. They are unmoved by facts, evidence, logic or morality, as long as they have force on their side, as long as the police and army will shoot when ordered to do so.
there's nothing new under the sun!