POLITICS - THE REAL HISTORY OF POLITICS

[Quick Karl]

Who ruled the Cave?

What type of personality wants power?

Who writes history?

The victor always writes history, because the
vanquished is dead – it’s no surprise then that
history is filled with stories about the victor
being the good guys, and the vanquished being
the bad guys. Of course, there were actual times
in history when the good did, in fact, overcome
the bad, but we still have to rely on the writings
of the victorious for these accounts.

The more ruthless is always the victor, because
he amassed more weapons, a greater army, and
will kill more remorselessly then the less
ruthless / less financially able to raise an equal army.
Since the beginning of human existence, the more
ruthless have always killed the less ruthless, for
power -- this is precisely what is going on in the
Middle East today.

Long ago, small groups of primitive humans
assembled into clans as a means of protection and
survival. The meanest caveman became the leader
of each clan, because he would club to death anyone
that challenged him -- even his own offspring – if
only to get the fillet mignon of the most recent kill that
the clan brought down, or to get the cutest cave girl.

The average cave person wanted only to eat, stay
alive, and protect it’s babies. If you were just an
average cave guy and you invented a new spear
for hunting, the leader of the cave would just take
your spear and call it his own, because, he would
kill you if you protested.

The leader of the cave had only to worry about one
thing -- the leader in the cave around the bend, because
he knew, that leader, like himself, would kill him in an
instant to control his cave and hunting grounds, and
take his women.

To have a better chance of defending himself from the
leader in the other cave he had no choice but to let his
cave mates live because he would need them to fight
off the attack of the other cave leader – if it weren’t for
this very fact, he would kill all of his cave mates leaving
only the cutest women and a few men to help him hunt
(really to hunt FOR him).

To keep his cave mates from rebelling, abandoning, or
assassinating him, he had to give them only enough of
‘the pie’ to keep them subdued. He had to find ways to
control them and not let them learn that they were, in
fact, being controlled - for his benefit. Of course, he told
them it was for their benefit too, and in an abstract,
paradoxical, Machiavelli/Orwellian way, he had a point,
because like the leader in the other cave, he would
surely kill them if they didn’t do what he said.

These cave leaders evolved slowly over time into the
kings, emperors, sultans, dictators, warlords, and other
leaders of societies throughout history, and finally into
the politicians and other paragons of modern day
society that we are so lucky to have ruling our lives
today -- Serial killers who are never satisfied and always
need more, incessantly.

If not for the fact that societies will rise-up and overthrow
these horrible people when pushed to their limit, they
would take everything we have - without hesitation – because
they seriously believe they have that divine right. They
literally believe that what we possess, is really theirs.
They will never say so, but actions speak louder than words.

Their trick is walking that fine line, sapping the average
person of as much as he can extract from him, giving
him only enough to keep him subdued, because he
knows the average guy only wants a simple, safe,
life - which is a complete paradox as our current world
condition proves.

It is not the average person that starts wars, invades
countries, uses religion to justify murder, taxes people
to death, runs Enron into the ground taking the property
of hard working people with it, or manipulates the stock
market (the biggest scam to ever be perpetuated). It IS
the “paragons of societyâ€

[Old Time Hunter]

What was that quote regarding good intentions and intending to rule? Personally I do not disagree with the post...kinda base, but probably close to the truth.

[rjohns94]

not the ones from the left side of the house

[AJMD429]

Wait a minute, now, WE'RE DIFFERENT in the U.S....

We're inherently more evil than the enlightened Europeans, who have figured out that socialism is the only "fair" way to run a society, even though those nations consistently either collapse or have us bail them out when problems arise.

...but...

We're inherently better than the other civilizations around the world and for all time, because in OUR nation, we have no would-be dictators or crooked politicians. Socialism thus will work in our nation, even though it has failed everywhere else, every time.

If a person doesn't have strong religious beliefs and a basic knowledge of human history to put it all in perspective, they either would go crazy or have to be apathetic as long as the ballgame is on the tube and the beer is cold. 90% of our fellow citizens seem to fit the latter two categories, unfortunately...

[YellowHorse]

both humorous and unfortunate, because it's true.