Entitlement is bad.
Just ask the Royal House of England.
One of their illustrious predecessors, albeit from a different bloodline, His Majesty the King of England by the Grace of God, Charles I Stuart, lost his head and crown all at once on that fateful Tuesday, January 30, 1649.
And it all happened because he truly believed himself to be God’s appointed Executor on Earth.
How silly was his mindset! No. Really, how silly was it, I ask thee?
Let’s take a look under the Hood of History and see what we come up with.
Almost all political experiments swear by a hierarchical model whereby a large body politic entrusts a few executive, administrative, legislative, and judiciary appointees with large freedoms of action. Sometime this oligarchic, aristocratic, plutocratic political model is so extreme that these few actors become one single person. We call this autocracy, tyranny, monarchy.
In fact, historical trends exhibit a worrisome trend towards totalitarianism, whereby the accumulation of power is so great, the many lose almost all their rights and many of their responsibilities.
And since nature abhors a vacuum, nothing is truly lost, and everything is transformed, the people’s lost rights are the elites’ gain.
The crisis of our 21st century will be, is, one steeped in authoritarianism. It is not a crisis of democracy. No matter what the powers that be tell you. The power doesn’t rest with you the People anymore.
After all, each year, each day brings you closer to losing yet another democratic right, for which your father and mother, your grandparents going back 10 generations or more, have shed rivers of blood to extract from the entitled claws of the nobility.
The problem with People is that they have short attention spans. But the Elites don’t share this deficiency.
Their sense of Entitlement is greater than the People’s attention span. And they know how to speculate that. They know how to work that to their advantage.
They use Media to make you believe falsities with such conviction People become Prisoners of their Poor Choices.
Between a Wall of Lies and a Dystopian Future, what can the People do but regularly live by Jefferson’s words.
Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independant 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.
From a 1787 letter to W.S. Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams – Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father of the United States of America
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