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Region: the Rejected Realms

Sea dogs and pirate scumbags

Aandruzognivia wrote:Societies destroy themselves all the time. Power centralization, changing issue focuses, cultural stagnation, political corruption, all of these things contribute to a crumbling society. Many o'er the seas have repeated themselves as their ancestors have, swealtering in the swine they know. Humans are self degrading. There's no price too high for money. Governments will grow more unreliable with time, whether it has been a long one or not.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I am very well aware of this. But there is little that matches the value of power. There are few who wouldn't pay the price to be above others.

Yeah. Here’s my view of Democracy.

Imagine a boat out at sea. In the boat are there are 10 people (spread out equally on the boat) and 10 anvils. (They represent certain degrees of power) if you give each person one anvil the boat balances. If you give all the anvils to one person the boat flips over.

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