BenGunn on nostr

I'd let a slave nation have guns if I could limit their ability to read and understand literature.

Literacy and health are lower orders of basic freedom than a rifle. From such a handicap, the guns aren't a threat to a tyrant.

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Ape Mithrandir · 24w

The first step is always to control the money supply. Then you can let the serfs have whatever they want and it won't change a thing.

Mr Eugenides · 24w

Interesting. I imagine the biggest threat to a tyrant is revolution. Struggling to think of one wherein the people overthrowing a tyrannical leader were literate (accepting that the instigators may have been) and healthy (however we define that).

Manbyt · 24w

Ignorance makes it easier to get the blue gun owners to hate the red gun owners and vice versa.