Thoughts to You from Yours Truly - ( TYYT ) - ( 79 ) - The Illusion of Power - July 16, 2011
People in power are invariably intoxicated with their own apparent invincibility. They are very often under the false impression that they are super humans who can command the fate of their fellow citizens who have given them the mandate to run society on behalf of all the citizens in the first place. As a matter of fact, these power mongers are just as ordinary if not worse than other human beings who are all subject to the laws of nature and the inescapable human woes of birth, aging, sickness and death.
In the short term, power mongers might have their way with the help of their evil lieutenants and hideous bullies. Unfortunately, anyone who is behaving badly and against natural justice are doomed to failure because of the invariant law of cause and effect. History has proven time and again that perpetrators of repressive regimes will dig their own graves by their heinous acts of cruelty and injustice inflicted upon fellow citizens. Power mongers will either overdo their repression and force citizens to revolt such as in the French Revolution or the more cunning ones may use economic inducements to fool other citizens into accepting them for a while but at the end they will inevitably be overthrown too because improved living standards will breed aspirations for freedom.
Let us take heed of wise counsel such as that given by great statesmen like President Abraham Lincoln, the slave liberator who famously said that :- " No man is good enough to rule another without that other's consent ." I would respectfully add that " no man is good enough to rule forever. " All power mongers be warned stop hiding behind the illusion of power and submit to the mandate of the people. You are fooling no one but your stupid selves regarding your purported invincibility. The date of reckoning is nearer than you think. Repent from your evil ways and you may yet receive some clemency from the people. Or else, only the fire of hell will await you at your inescapable destiny of destruction.
JKHC.
