(December 8, 2015 at 3:14 pm)Kingpin Wrote:(December 8, 2015 at 12:46 pm)Stimbo Wrote: The parasite class, the wannabe leaders too weak and cowardly to do the job themselves but still desire the wealth and fine living, worked out a way to exploit their way behind the throne. The ancient Egyptians pretty much nailed the formula, and the priests of the Middle Ages refined and concentrated it through superstitious fear; to the point where people even now willingly seek out their own chains. Don't blame humanity for the crimes of one institution of con merchants.
And what do you say is the source of said institution of con merchants? Humanity.
As I said, the parasite class. The weak minded lackwits who covet the trappings of office but have no talent or desire to do the actual work necessary to achieve it, so seek to convince the desperate and the desolate alike to empty their pockets in the hope of a promised glimpse of the divine. Humanity in the sense that they are still people exploiting other people's credulity and superstitions, but it's not a trade of which to be proud, quite frankly.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
