(August 22, 2024 at 11:00 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote:(August 22, 2024 at 10:55 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Right, the pen is mightier than the sword ... but the sword can decapitate the reader. It really is a toss-up, you cannot exterminate an idea, but you can exterminate believers. Who wins that race?
In world scale I would say book as they can inspire massive change (who knows how Russia history would look like if Lenin wouldn't read Kapital). Single gun can't do anything on that scale (though Gavrilo Princip would perhaps disagree). In daily life however it is gun that reigns supreme.
Right -- and how many voters look at this in a global scale?
You can't kill an idea, but you sure as hell can secure your own graft, by hook or by crook.
Maybe one day ...