(August 22, 2024 at 11:06 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(August 22, 2024 at 11:00 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: 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 ...
Not many I suppose. That's why I said that in general sense Oprah quote was right.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
