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1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 16:37:12 EDT Don Romano (alt)

   To nurture a man, natural resources must unite. To nurture greatness, men must unite.

   One man's quest for greatness is another man's grievous toil.

   Ergo, there is no greatness without misery.

   (This isn't a quote. I'm stating these things.)

   1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 16:47:41 EDT Don Romano (alt)

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      Let me pick what I just said apart:

      If you want to accomplish something larger than yourself, you're going to need assistance. Most people aren't going to be interested, so you'll need to bribe them. They'd rather be doing something else, but they need your money, so they're stuck working for you.

      If you gave everyone cheese puffs and Netflix, and didn't force them work, the vast majority wouldn't lift a finger.

      Large projects would rarely happen. Who'd bother to do the work? No one.

      1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 16:55:31 EDT Don Romano (alt)

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         In societies where everyone did have the equivalent of cheese puffs and Netflix, such as the Patrician class of ancient Rome, they needed slaves to do the actual work. That was their version of gathering men and making them work in order to actually accomplish things. Every civilisation has some means of making the many do the bidding of the few. Societies that lack such means of controlling people are usually not developed at all, and are typically tribes, not civilisations.

         1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 17:22:36 EDT Don Romano (alt)

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            In his natural state, man is a slave to his needs and must toil to satisfy them. True liberty is to be free of toil, but toil can not be avoided, and if one man is free of it, another man must do it in his place.

            Greatness is conceived in the minds of the few, but born of the toil of the many.

            If the few cannot compel the many to toil for them, greatness is no longer possible, and there is no civilisation.

            Liberty is and always has been the prerogative of the ruling class.

         2. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 17:23:38 EDT Don Romano (alt)

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            In his natural state, man is a slave to his needs and must toil to satisfy them. True liberty is to be free of toil, but toil can not be avoided, and if one man is free of it, another man must do it in his place.

            Greatness is conceived in the minds of the few, but born of the toil of the many.

            If the few cannot compel the many to toil for them, greatness is no longer possible, and there is no civilisation.

            Liberty is and always has been the prerogative of the ruling class.

            — Me