"When this happens, as it is today, then to quote Eric Hoffer, 'When freedom destroys order, the yearning for order will destroy freedom.' At
that point the words left or right will make no difference. They are
only two roads to the same end. There is no difference between
authoritarian government from the right or the left: the results are the
same. An elite, an authoritarianism as such, will gradually force form
on society so that it will not go on to chaos. And most people will
accept it - from the desire for personal peace and affluence, from
apathy, and from the yearning for order to assure the functioning of
some political system, business, and the affairs of daily life. That is
just what Rome did with Caesar Augustus” (Source)Friday, January 19, 2018
Thoughts for Friday, January 19, 2019
"When this happens, as it is today, then to quote Eric Hoffer, 'When freedom destroys order, the yearning for order will destroy freedom.' At
that point the words left or right will make no difference. They are
only two roads to the same end. There is no difference between
authoritarian government from the right or the left: the results are the
same. An elite, an authoritarianism as such, will gradually force form
on society so that it will not go on to chaos. And most people will
accept it - from the desire for personal peace and affluence, from
apathy, and from the yearning for order to assure the functioning of
some political system, business, and the affairs of daily life. That is
just what Rome did with Caesar Augustus” (Source)