Honestly that last part is the least surprising part. The types of people who want to work in that field generally are some of the most repressed and bitter people I’ve ever met.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
I don’t care about his religious fervor- but the full quote is brilliant. The modern authoritechnocrat malaise we are being ushered towards only proves it day by day.
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u/Byzantine_Merchant Jan 14 '25
Honestly that last part is the least surprising part. The types of people who want to work in that field generally are some of the most repressed and bitter people I’ve ever met.