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Anonymous 11/3/2025, 10:30:07 PM No.24853454 [Report] >>24853656 >>24853947 >>24854827
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>"whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,–to the length of sixpence."
Anonymous 11/3/2025, 11:31:53 PM No.24853656 [Report] >>24853674
>>24853454 (OP)
Is this guy saying the more money you have the more power you have? I guess that's true
Anonymous 11/3/2025, 11:34:54 PM No.24853674 [Report] >>24854006
>>24853656
Not OP, but I think the point is rather: isn't it strange how, through money, something as mystical as the absolute power of kings can be quantified and sliced up into tiny units.
Anonymous 11/4/2025, 12:58:48 AM No.24853947 [Report] >>24854840 >>24854848
>>24853454 (OP)
The Nazis claiming him as one of their own really buried him, eh?
Anonymous 11/4/2025, 1:03:06 AM No.24853965 [Report]
>if you have money you can do things
Holy shit...
Anonymous 11/4/2025, 1:09:19 AM No.24853999 [Report]
Hwhat’s even crazier is how may people throughout all times have agreed this is the singular best way to do things with more than 20 people involved bar none
Anonymous 11/4/2025, 1:11:17 AM No.24854006 [Report]
>>24853674
wonderfully put
Anonymous 11/4/2025, 9:05:15 AM No.24854801 [Report]
> what is the right to refuse service?
Anonymous 11/4/2025, 9:25:13 AM No.24854827 [Report]
>>24853454 (OP)
>carlyle
carlyle is so effin bae i swear
Anonymous 11/4/2025, 9:40:56 AM No.24854840 [Report] >>24854848
>>24853947
Not really, he wasn't exactly widely taught ten years ago.
Anonymous 11/4/2025, 9:52:01 AM No.24854848 [Report]
>>24853947
Pretty much. Most of the crowd they liked have been tarred by popular academia, except Nietzsche for some fucking reason.

>>24854840
He was buried mid-WWII because people identified his writings on heroes (correctly or incorrectly) as enabling and encouraging the Nazis. Check out Eric Bently's book "A Century of Hero Worship" if you want to actually read the contemporary view of him at the time.