Does the lust for power stem from garden variety lust? From Bill Bonner at bonnerprivateresearch.com:
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Bill Bonner, reckoning today from Normandy, France…
“Therefore I cannot refrain from speaking about the city of this world, a city which aims at dominion, which holds nations in enslavement, but is itself dominated by that very lust of domination.”
~ Saint Augustine
We were on our way down to our house in France when we got word of a terrible ‘canicule.’ (A heat wave in the ‘dog days’ of August.) Temperatures in our area are already in the upper 90s. Tomorrow, they’re supposed to reach 100.
There is no air-conditioning. But people know how to beat the heat. Shutters, windows and drapes are closed during the day. People remain inside until the evening. Then, the windows are opened to let in the cool night air. Typically, heat waves don’t last long in Europe. And the old houses, built of heavy stone, moderate the temperatures.
But since we are hosting a daughter, her husband, and their three little children – all very much used to climate control – we judged it better for us all to remain in much cooler Normandy until the heat has passed.
Rape and Pillage
Yesterday, we took the family to Falaise to visit the castle where William the Conqueror was born. The town was dead. Almost deserted. But the castle was alive with tourists. And the highlight of the visit was a projection on the castle wall of William, explaining himself…and illustrating our point. The elites rule. History is largely a story of one elite replacing another…and each one exploiting the masses as much as it is able. The gist of the American story is the rise of the ‘rich men north of Richmond.’ The rest is obiter dicta.
As a woman, I take exception to,the following statement.
“The desire to dominate is inherent in the human species.”
“Male” should be substituted for species with no inference to the gentleman with whom I am communicating.
I’ve known plenty of both males and females who had the desire to dominate.
As my previous comment doesn’t seem to,have registered, I shall enter it again.
As a woman, I take exception to the following statement.
“The desire to dominate is inherent in the human species.”
“Male” should be substituted for species, with no inference to the gentleman with whom I am communicating.
The desire to rule is not separate from the desire to plunder to acquire wealth rather than work and produce to gain it. In other words this is all criminal behavior. I don’t think there has ever been a ‘moral’ war. All wars are for gaining control of resources to be plundered which is the opposite of a free market when those who wish to conduct business proceed with trade rather than violence to possess needed products.
Women are not free of this vice, there is no woman ruler who was not as avaricious and willing to use violence to get the desired ends, and there is never a brutal leader who does not have a woman by his side willing to benefit from his malicious behavior.
Unfortunately, the real problem is with those who are willing to be ruled, sacrificed, and plundered. As Estienne pointed out, without the cooperation of those being destroyed by the leader he could not accomplish his deeds. Whether they be willing taxpayers, suppliers of children for the wars, or compelling their neighbors to participate, the slaves demand their own destruction believing they are accomplishing noble ends by betraying their morals and their liberty.
The fiat banking scheme is the method for financing this destruction by making the working slave pay for the forces required to accomplish their tasks.
Chad