Kevin's Bacon on Nostr: Don't sacrifice your principles to the whims of other people, whether for your gain ...
Don't sacrifice your principles to the whims of other people, whether for your gain or for theirs or for anything at all, as this is the beginning of democracy, and democracy is the chief cause of civilizational decline.
To not sacrifice the principle of nonaggression is obvious to a principled, future-oriented, logical person. It was not obvious to the monarchs who were already expropriators, who by the process of expressing allegiance with the common man, stole more and more from their subjects and weakened their morals, which confused them enough to think that a government was necessary and that term limits would somehow fix the fundamental problem of a monopoly on force.
Monarchy degenerates into the severe confusion that is democracy. Monarchy itself stems from the confused state of the people trusting, which forms a single point of failure, instead of verifying. The original sin.
To not sacrifice the principle of nonaggression is obvious to a principled, future-oriented, logical person. It was not obvious to the monarchs who were already expropriators, who by the process of expressing allegiance with the common man, stole more and more from their subjects and weakened their morals, which confused them enough to think that a government was necessary and that term limits would somehow fix the fundamental problem of a monopoly on force.
Monarchy degenerates into the severe confusion that is democracy. Monarchy itself stems from the confused state of the people trusting, which forms a single point of failure, instead of verifying. The original sin.