Comment Re:flowers to a gun fight (Score 1) 289
Thinking About Freedom
Robert LeFevre
The Freeman, February 1983, p. 115
Could I control others by a simple exercise of my own will I would have no reason to inflict control, punishment or death upon another of my kind. Since my wishes would control others, each and every person would gladly do my bidding. Unhappily, for me, this isn’t true.
Every other person has the same kind of control I have and is as eager for me to act as he wishes, as I am to have him act as I wish.
The result is conflict. And from the days of Plato to Marx, stretching backward and forward from those polarities, the pages of the human record run red with blood and echo with the cries of anguish emitted by those who, at the moment, found themselves under the sway of some human being not content with self-management; seeking always to manage others in a way nature has not bargained for.
It's not "man", in general, but men that want to have some "kind of control" and "is
Most men don't have such ambitions. For some reason (the ability to actually exert this power over others), politics draws these kinds of men out.