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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
If only others had your wealth of understanding  |
Mine...? Hardly. I'm more about things written and voiced by smarter guys than I am and already 40, 50, 60, 70 years ago, and about observations one could learn from in history books on the past 100, 200, 300 years. None of the worries haunting us today come as a surprise. They are all self-made, they all have been forseen, they all have been warned of. Against better knowledge, against wise advice.
This ignorrance is what brings us down. Our pitiful excuse of that we could not know. We could know - it has happened so often before, it is all laid out before our eyes, if only we would want to know.
But most do not want to know.
Seneca:
Es steht mit der Sache der Menschheit nicht so gut, daß das Bessere der Mehrzahl gefiele, ein großer Haufe ist Beweis des Schlechtesten.
Die Freiheit geht zugrunde, wenn wir nicht alles verachten, was uns unter ein Joch beugen will.
Insofern ist der Weise sich selbst genug; nicht, daß er ohne Freund sein will, sondern daß er es kann.