Power derived from the system cannot dismantle the system. But power derived from the system can protect the powerless.
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"What good do you do me if you protect me from the sharp edge of the sword, but keep me under the boot?"
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This is why students are so prone to be revolutionaries: only someone with no feeling of the sword prefers it to the boot.
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Some think it takes work to teach you to prefer the boot. That may be true for them. I say it takes work to teach you to prefer the sword.
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More and better: the ruler who protects the people from the sword teaches them to despise the boot---and makes them brave against the sword.
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That's all very abstract but I do think it is true. Those who choose to work in the system ought to have this modest goal in mind.
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But they perhaps ought not to proffer revolution (hope and change) when all they have to offer is reform. Raise the boot a little.
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