Martti on Nostr: This 16th century Frenchman was actually based: Tyrants would distribute largess, a ...
This 16th century Frenchman was actually based:
Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, "Long live the King!" The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.
Étienne de la Boétie, Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (1576)
Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, "Long live the King!" The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.
Étienne de la Boétie, Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (1576)