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Here’s How People Choose To Be Ruled Over — Simona Rich
The vast majority of people naturally accept being under the control of the government. They want to be ruled over as they show it with their actions — they vote.
Almost no one questions whether such governance is worth their hard-earned money. People always complain about poor police performance and poor healthcare, they breathe polluted city air and eat pesticide-laden supermarket food, but they are happily allowing the cause of such results to continue.
In the past, blood and power-thirsty barbarians took different habitations by force to rule over. Later these barbarians got the title of kings and queens, and some passed their power to the succedent generations. Now people associate the words “King” and “Queen” with luxury and good things, and only a rare one or two ponder about how these rulers got to be in power.
The strangest thing to see is people actually cheering for the kings and queens. These families feed off the taxes of hard-working individuals who would be imprisoned if they would refuse to pay. So they keep humans as slaves, and some of these slaves actually wish for these parasites sucking their life force a long and prosperous life!
Most kings and queens are now replaced by governments. The rulership got sophisticated where most people can’t even…