[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pointing out revolution is inevitable under certain circumstances does not a threat make. The possibility of a illiberal revolution (wouldn't say large scale violence is likely) should be some incentive for the elite to give back a bit. But I don't see them doing it. Historically the elite simply can't imagine why anyone would seriously want to change anything. They assume what has happened for a long time will happen for ever. Until they are deposed -- and then they try distance themselves from the old regime (like the opportunists they are) like anyone is going to buy that.

this is the danger of placating one's conscience in the subsidy of failure. a man not given to thought will never be and neutering one's mind in collective delusion to the contrary changes neither his nature nor his state.

verily he will come for you who are his better, more intelligent, conscientious, attractive, virtuous in your natural fitness. in spite of your charity, indeed contemptuous of the modesty of it, he will take, by force, that which fate, by way of the natural order, has unjustly denied him. the cruelty wrought of your own incomplete and deluded compassion having bred a a swell of hate and disdain, now the enthusiastic usher of your own undoing.