Good post Crager.
Thank you.
Tyrants have always believed they are in control of individuals.
Individuals have always sought a way to oppose tyrants.
Leaders of individuals come to power in a variety of ways.
The cultures of America, Canada, and Europe have transitioned in many ways over the last 100-200 years and we see great shifts from rural to urban living, family to non-family arrangements, conservative to progressive logic, and so forth.
Fundamentally those who lived 1000 years ago or 2000 years ago didn't think the world would get better, but they also didn't think it was getting worse. It was, what it was.
We are now, all of us, trained up during a time when the Renascence > Enlightenment > Modernist philosophy of thinking is that.... things may not get worse BUT the world "can" get better.
This modern era (last two hundred years especially) has produced HUGE differences in the ways in which nations, and most tyrants, operate.
Hegel believed humans could become better with his logic.
Marx believed humans could do better his way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt listened to those who said humans could get better their way.
Modern educators insist humans could get better their way.
Soros uses his money to steer the world for the better his way.
Today, the world is absolute, positively, undeniably overloaded with idiots and tyrants, and despots who all think they have the way for humankind to get "better."
These modern era idiots and tyrannical minds will not be changed because all of us now live in the secret sauce of the soup poured out since humans declared they are now smarter than humans before them (enlightenment era).
Every wonder why no one wants to teach history any longer? Because the modernists, who thinks themselves smarter than anyone else, doesn't need some by-gone historical logic!?! People today have decided, at a core level, they are it. Ask people. They'll tell you how they know it all.
ALL OF THESE idiots suffer from the same illusion which is the illusion they are better humans, better people, better minds, better bosses, better leaders, better _______ and that human nature can get better. If only, more money, more power, more authority is given to "them."
And people.... thinking that human nature "might" get better, because they themselves are just over broke, spending till they drop, fighting with the fragments of some sort of family, and hooked on phonics, porn, gaming, anxiety meds, and who knows what else...
vote for leaders who they think can lead them to...
better.
The basic human desire is to love and be loved. Simple and easy as that. It will not and can not be changed because humans aren't creators of humans (we think we are since science began teaching the wonder of the egg meets the spermatozoa
The miracle of life creation is beyond the human capacity no matter what my science pals claim).
Modernists are a blight. A cancer that has overtaken the culture at a core level.
Tyrants are elected by people in nations who cry out for a king.
They cry in vane and it's painful to witness.
Our prayers remain and are always with those who are trying to swim upstream amidst all of this modern era pollution.
Humans are not "evolving" and getting better.
Humans are also not getting any worse.
Time is just ticking along.
Blessings,
Mark