What do you mean by those abstract words with which you so easily settle the problems of life and death?
Socrates
The penalty all men and women pay for any allegiance to affairs of state is to be enslaved by evil men.
Paraphrased from Plato
Socrates
The penalty all men and women pay for any allegiance to affairs of state is to be enslaved by evil men.
Paraphrased from Plato
To write this essay/letter I must make it absolutely clear as to what I mean by the very genesis of evil and what is the ultimate evil. The genesis of evil evolved as the Hominid evolved the neo-cortex capable of the cognitive capacity to have consciousness of its existence and of its mortality. By Darwinian natural selection from the first Hominids to Homo sapiens this knowledge of its existence and of its mortality evolved primitive mysticism and tribalism (the prehistoric seeds for THEISM and STATISM, aka modern church and state). From this unavoidable fear of the unknown, evil acts were conceptualized as the answers to those fears. Ignorance plus fear ruled Homo sapiens’ life for millenniums.
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