Vox was commenting on the recent merger of things I could not care less about, two golfing organisations, PGA and LIV and predicting that LIV football (calcio) would be next , because LIV is backed by Saudi Oil money.
He ended the post with this:
Whenever money or power become central, the richest and the most ruthless are guaranteed control. Keep that in mind when you set your own priorities.
Which is perfectly true.
There is a however though.
The richest can buy almost all the power.
Almost.
And the powerful can monopolise almost all violence.
Almost.
But there are some men, few, it is true, and a lot fewer these days proportionally speaking, than say at the time of classical Greece or Rome, or feudal Japan, or the Catholic barons and knights of only a few centuries ago, that cannot be bought, and that are very hard to kill even when you have overwhelming firepower.
The classic version is the noble Samurai or the fearless Spartan.
Less classic and generally less liked, is the jihadi martyr willing to make himself into a human firework.
They are not confined to one nationality, ethnicity, race, age or religion.
And while —if and when they act against the most ruthless and wealthy— they are unlikely to survive, the damage they can do is considerable.
And if so much as five such men got together and agreed on a course of action, with their leader being the unquestionable decision maker, there is not a wealthy and powerful tyrant on the planet that doesn’t shiver in fear at the thought of it.
Furthermore, my more than half century on this Earth, has shown me beyond doubt, that you can’t predict very well at all who might turn out to be a secret samurai.
But Not Samurai
Vox was commenting on the recent merger of things I could not care less about, two golfing organisations, PGA and LIV and predicting that LIV football (calcio) would be next , because LIV is backed by Saudi Oil money.
He ended the post with this:
Which is perfectly true.
There is a however though.
The richest can buy almost all the power.
Almost.
And the powerful can monopolise almost all violence.
Almost.
But there are some men, few, it is true, and a lot fewer these days proportionally speaking, than say at the time of classical Greece or Rome, or feudal Japan, or the Catholic barons and knights of only a few centuries ago, that cannot be bought, and that are very hard to kill even when you have overwhelming firepower.
The classic version is the noble Samurai or the fearless Spartan.
Less classic and generally less liked, is the jihadi martyr willing to make himself into a human firework.
They are not confined to one nationality, ethnicity, race, age or religion.
And while —if and when they act against the most ruthless and wealthy— they are unlikely to survive, the damage they can do is considerable.
And if so much as five such men got together and agreed on a course of action, with their leader being the unquestionable decision maker, there is not a wealthy and powerful tyrant on the planet that doesn’t shiver in fear at the thought of it.
Furthermore, my more than half century on this Earth, has shown me beyond doubt, that you can’t predict very well at all who might turn out to be a secret samurai.
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