kitten corner: truth about government
how to talk to your mancub
i know that humans maybe mature a lot more slowly than kittens and seem to struggle more with shape rotation and analogy, but jeez you guys, even so 13 seems kinda late to still be sugar coating the real truth for these kids…
i mean, at some point you’re gonna have to tell them that government really IS just organized crime but with less accountability.
if you don’t talk to the mancubs about it, it’s not like they aren’t going to probably figure it out themselves eventually.
it’s better they hear it from someone who cares.
Don't make me dig up that C.S. Lewis quote again, that one about the worst tyranny being the kind sincerely exercised for the good of the citizens.
Such observations were already old when Augustine of Hippo wrote in The City of God:
What are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is ruled by the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact of the confederacy; the booty is divided by the law agreed on. If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues people, it assumes more plainly the name of a kingdom, because reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity. Indeed, that was the apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when the king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, “What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it in a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.”