The title says it all, so I will let it stand without much comment. I think those words need to be carved into a mountain somewhere in letters as deep as a spear is long, so we will never, ever forget it again.
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The title says it all, so I will let it stand without much comment. I think those words need to be carved into a mountain somewhere in letters as deep as a spear is long, so we will never, ever forget it again.
3 replies on ““The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.” -Albert Camus”
I have been saying in other forums and venues for the past many months that as an unvaccinated person, I’m not asking for the protection being foisted upon us by our political and corporate leaders.
A government (and now its corporate task masters) that controls what we read, see, hear and inject into our bodies is an authority that controls both what we think and do. There can be no worse tyranny than this.
Yep. They cite safety, health or as the Amazing Atheist once said, sprinkle “the children” on their tragedy sundae.
I wonder how often health has been used throughout history to enforce tyranny. For instance, was there a power grab during the Black Plague?
I know people went around with those weird masks with the pointy noses. Don’t know if they had anything to do with grabbing power or not.
Thanks for posting. Very interesting!
The trouble with the French existentialists is that they felt an obligation to lean leftward politically. Another frustrating thing — and this applies to Camus — is that existentialism was a rejection of metaphysics hence also of anything religious. Sartre, for example, has the same attitude toward Catholicism as Voltaire. the Nevertheless, Camus’ Man in Revolt is worth reading, as disorganized as it is. The great exception to this description of the existentialists is Gabriel Marcel, a Christian existentialist by self-denomination.
You can read about Marcel here: https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2019/11/17/jose-ortega-y-gasset-gabriel-marcel-on-mass-man/
Thank you for reminding me of Camus — I have not about him for a long time.