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Created on 2002-07-31 23:58:35 (#652079), last updated 2006-02-08
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Basic Info| Name: | Joshua |
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| Birthdate: | 01-03 |
| Location: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
BioNothing will change until we change our minds; until we discover what Proust called "new eyes." Because, frightened readers, the facade of power is remarkably fragile. Consider the words of David Hume, written in 1758:
"Nothing appears more surprising...than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few, and the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded, and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments as well as the most free and popular."
"Nothing appears more surprising...than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few, and the implicit submission with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded, and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments as well as the most free and popular."
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