The Face of Tyranny
By Alan Caruba Full Story
The
history of civilization dating back some five millennia is one of
unrelenting tyranny, rapaciousness, arrogance, and stupidity. The
players and the places changed, but the slaughter was unremitting, the
suffering broken only by occasional brief periods of peace, good weather
and crops. For most of the past, war, famine, and disease killed most
people.
During the famous soliloquy of Hamlet, he contemplates taking his own
life, saying “There’s the respect that makes calamity of so long
life—for who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s
wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law’s
delay, the insolence of office…”
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