[FRIAM] millenarianism

[Steve Smith]

On 6/6/20 4:31 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> Steve writes:
>
> < I have at least one friend who has a very paradoxical/hypocritical?
> style of wanting to "pass laws against passing stupid laws" and
> "punish extremely, those who wield extreme authority".    >
>
> A few yielding influence over many is a more serious thing than many
> exerting influence over a few (that deserve it).
>
> Marcus
>
I'm in sympathy with his (and your) gist...  I just don't believe that
the means/ends conflation doesn't eventually lead you right back to the
abuses you were trying to right.   The common? revolutionary leaders who
get installed as the new "leader of the nation" only for everyone else
to discover that power in fact does corrupt.

I think there is a literal paradox in the "passing laws against stupid
laws".

I love me some good vigilante fantasy as much as anyone, but I think the
torches and the pitchforks should at best be used to take the power out
of the hands of the despot, not to exact revenge (beyond the humiliation
and fear perhaps of losing the power so abruptly).  


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