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One of my favorite sites, though kind of quiet lately, has the Veteran’s Day post to end all Veteran’s Day posts.
Regardless of how these governments came to power, via whatever form of cultural evolution or chicanery, divine right or logical thought, they all failed for one simple reason:
They broke faith with their populations.
They stopped listening to the people who had entrusted them with power. These governments failed to notice that they were no longer giving to their populations protections from predation, stability of commerce, or even an orderly progression of events that allowed them, the people, to raise their families without fear.
And now it is happening again.
Read, as they say, the entire thing.
That was brilliant! I’ll definitely be posting that link on my blog, and checking in on that site now. Wow!
D.W.
November 15th, 2008